The holy sites which point to Iraq's Jewish heritage

Iraq used to be home to one of the Middle East's most thriving Jewish communities, attracted among other things by the wealth of holy sites going back to ancient Mesopotamia. Wars, politics and the creation of Israel meant most Jews left Iraq -- yet the Jewish shrines are still maintained, and revered, by Iraq's Muslims.

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[gadood16933]

i am iraqi and muslims and i love jews and christians they part of our country and always will be, i hate the war that started in iraq that killed so many people, i mean i am muslim and alqeda killed so many people in my family for no reason we all suffer the but were all humans in the end and no one is better than anyone

[Yahoodi1]

stupid australian nazi go to your whore sisters and dont talk about jews things you dont know you dirti westerner.

[eliezer017]

IThey turned a Jewish holy place into a mosque, as they built a mosque on the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, turned churches to mosques in Turkey and turned Hindu temples into Muslim .

[eliezer017]

@turbofritz2 Jews were in Iraq before Arabs arrived. Jews were in Germany before German tribes arrived. Pagan Germany means going back to the stone age? The Hebrew Bible is a revolutionary book and dindt steal nothing from paganism, as a fact it is against Canaanite and Egyptian paganism.. Christianism is a falsification of Jewish religion and Islam take its ideas from Jewishry and christianism.

[turbofritz2]

Jewish? what a fuckign joke!

Iraq is sumerian and old pagan lands that jews and muslim crap has destroyed!!

Islam Cristianity and Judianism has no place in europe. Europe is anceitn pagan germanic lands. The bible (just like the quran) is based on older gods stolen from egyptain paganism there is hardly anything original in the bible. Same goes for the quran. The arabic countries were great and have a great anciet culture behind them.

[2912770]

my uncles are jews from Iraq, they told me they visited there a long time ago.

[mo133jj]

@kingkhan2 have you ever heard of good and bad innovation (Bid'a)??? you should look it up... there are loads of hadiths about it...

[Gwynsek]

@gadood16933 I meant,your ancestors,sorry,lol,cause you couldn´t have been there,except in a previous life,if you believe in reincarnation,smile.

[Gwynsek]

@gadood16933 I meant,your ancestors,sorry,lol,cause you coldn´t have been there,except in a previous life,if you believe in reincarnation,smile.

[Gwynsek]

@gadood16933 Maybe you instinctively feel that one day you yourself were an Aramaic-speaking Christian,since before Islam,that´s what the whole of the Levant and Iraq were,after the early spread of Christianity till the islamic spread !And Egypt was Copt-speaking Christianity,so the whole of the Middle East was land of Christians,jews and even some lingering pagans getting along quite well .

[Syriacus]

5 years later we hear at the end of a similar Video.... There's only 6 Christians left in Baghdad.