Yesterday, Islamist thugs kidnapped Basile Georges Casmoussa, the Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Mosul. So NOW the Vatican is upset. After feeling sorry for the evil dictator Saddam, and opposing the liberation of Iraqis, the Vatican has finally used the un-politically-correct "T" word: "terrorism." From the BBC:

A Vatican spokesman described it [the kidnapping] as an "act of terrorism", and demanded the archbishop's immediate release.

Isn’t that special. Before the war, the Vatican was silent about Saddam’s brutal repression of 25 million Iraqis. Then the Holy See vociferously opposed the liberation of the Iraqi people. But kidnap one of the Church’s big-shots, and now a change of heart?

What’s up with Catholicism’s “leadership” when you have nuns running around supporting terrorists and priest-pedophile scandals making headlines every other day. Just read the article, “Vatican press reveals crude anti-Israel bias,” and you’ll understand my feelings. Add to that the Vatican’s passive (implicit) support of Saddam, and you’ll understand me better.

The kidnapping of Casmoussa is awful. Iraq’s Christians have been targeted over and over again by Islamist terrorists. Their churches have been bombed. Militant Muslims have thrown bottles and rocks at Christians leaving Sunday services. Christians have been stabbed, beat up, kidnapped, and murdered for… being Christian. Some 40,000 Christians have fled Iraqi terrorism. This is nothing less than attempted genocide and/or ethnic cleansing. To think that Christians can trace their roots in Iraq back 2,000 years – and now they’re being forced out by Islamists.

What an awful tragedy.