"Full civil rights must be guaranteed to Iraqi Chaldeans, Assyrians and Syriacs". This is asked, from the website of his diocese, by mgr. Sarhad Y. Jammo, of the Chaldean Eparchy of Saint Peter Apostle in San Diego (Usa), who recalls the "tragic time" in which Iraq is living today, where "Muslims kill other Muslims in a deplorable cycle of revenges, but Christians, although they have never killed any Muslims, are killed, robbed and abused every day by some of their neighbours and Arab Muslim fellow countrymen". According to the Bishop, there are considerations that "should impose respect for the Christians of Iraq": "this land was the home of the Assyrians and the Chaldeans thousands of years before the Arab Muslims conquered Mesopotamia; Christianity entered Mesopotamia six centuries before the Islamic invasion. Despite difficulties during the Muslim dominion, the Christians were always loyal to their country". To give "justice and a safe future to the Christians in Iraq", mgr. Jammo proposes "a region independently run by Christians in the plain of Niniveh, the reinstatement of the original religious character of the Islamised Christian villages, the allocation of a fair share of the natural wealth of the land to the cities and the Iraqi Christian institutions and the allocation of part of the funds for the rebuilding of Iraq".
