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It is not the managers, Prime Minister, but Iraq’s Christians who are pogrom victims, who have been held up for months in a most un-Christian manner by your Minister of the Interior on the matter of their entry to Germany! Please make sure that at last 50,000 of these real pogrom victims are taken into Germany and Lower Saxony!
Dear Prime Minister,
You have said that a „pogrom atmosphere” obtains here against managers. But German managers are not threatened by any pogrom – albeit some of them may well appear to be a threat to the economy and society of the Federal Republic of Germany.
A real pogrom atmosphere has been stirrred up a few days ago by Islamist fundamentalists and Arab nationalists against the Assyrian Chaldean Christians in the north Iraqi town of Mosul. And indeed they have carried out a pogrom against these helpless people: with murder, torture, abduction and expulsion!
For two years the Society for Threatened Peoples has been pressing for the admission of Christian refugees and displaced persons from Iraq who now have no home. For one year the two large churches in Germany have also been trying to achieve this. However we have the impression that your Minister of the Interior, Uwe Schünemann, is not simply dragging out the admission of these people who are suffering a threat to their lives, but is also trying to reduce the number of refugees possible until only a small group remains. This attitude is particularly unworthy of a party which appeals not only with its name to Christian values. Following the expulsion of the Christians from Basra and Baghdad it is now the Christians of Mosul who are victims of a pogrom and who are being denied refuge and assistance from Germany.
I am writing this press statement in Gewissensruh, in one of the old Hugenot settlements on the Weser. The Christian Hugenots were given a generous reception here as refugees and successfully integrated. This is an example of humanity at the right time like the reception of the Assyrian Aramean Christians from Turkey in the 80s, who for a long time now have had in Germany their homes, their churches, communities and firms.
Yours Truly,
Tilman Zülch
General Secretary of the Society for Threatened Peoples
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