Source: Reuters
By Maher Chmaytelli, Jeffrey Heller, Stephen Farrell
BAGHDAD/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Behind the high concrete walls of Baghdad’s Jewish cemetery, Violette Saul lies at rest under a weathered and cracked tombstone, one of the last memorials to an ancient community that is now all but extinct.

A Torah scroll is seen on display at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda, Israel, April 16, 2018. Picture taken April 16, 2018. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
The Iraqi nurse was buried a decade ago alongside thousands of others in the sands of a country where her community thrived for more than 2,500 years.
Drive west to the shores of the Mediterranean – just a day’s journey geographically but a world away politically – and there is a lament inscribed at the entrance to the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Centre in Israel – “The Jewish community in Iraq is no more”.
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WHY DOES ALLAH PUNISH JEWS, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM? BECAUSE THEY WORSHIP IDOL.
The 5 characteristic of Syrick. Please check it out, maybe you are a Musrick? ( idolatry).
Million Muslim have fallen to Syrick after Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) died.
A.Worship / follow Allah, and do not associate with Him anything ( with Hadith, idols, stone, etc ), Q.4:36.
B. Say: “I am but a man like yourselves, (not a Holy) the inspiration has come to me, that your God is one God: whoever expects to meet his Lord, let him work righteousness, and, in the worship of his Lord, admit no one as partner. (Q.18:110).
C. Surely, Allah does not forgive that a partner is ascribed to Him, and forgives anything short of that for whomsoever He wills. Whoever ascribes a partner to Allah has indeed gone far astray.(Q.4: (116).
D. Allah forgive not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgive anything else, to whom He please; to set up partners with Allah is to devise a sin most heinous indeed. (Q.4;48)
E. But it has already been revealed to thee, – as it was to those before thee – “If thou wert to join (idols with Allah), truly fruitless will be thy work (in life), and thou wilt surely be in the ranks of those who lose (all spiritual good).” Q. 39;65.
Certainly! You and that which you are worshiping now besides Allâh, are (but) fuel for Hell! (Surely), you will enter it. Q.21:98.
May God guide Muslim to avoid from sinful Syrick.Amin
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