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Michael Yon is an independent embedded journalist who last week won the 2007 Best Military Weblog Award.

Today’s Online Magazine dispatch really touched me. It is a short post with wonderful pictures. The Muslim community in a section of Baghdad is urging their Christian neighbors to return to their home in Iraq. (you photographers out there will want to look at the pictures here...trust me)

Christian Moms and Muslim Moms have a great deal in common….children play and tease and annoy each other no matter who they are or where they live. The world really is very small.

excerpt:
Today, Muslims mostly filled the front pews of St John’s. Muslims who want their Christian friends and neighbors to come home. The Christians who might see these photos likely will recognize their friends here. The Muslims in this neighborhood worry that other people will take the homes of their Christian neighbors, and that the Christians will never come back. And so they came to St John’s today in force, and they showed their faces, and they said, “Come back to Iraq. Come home.” They wanted the cameras to catch it. They wanted to spread the word: Come home. Muslims keep telling me to get it on the news. “Tell the Christians to come home to their country Iraq.”