Persecution of Christians by ISIS

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[Post New]07/24/2014 15:31
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Anonymous
ISIS orders all girls to undergo female genital mutilation. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/isis-women-girls-fgm-mosul-un?CMP=fb_gu

Anyone care about them now? Still the US's fault?

Religious factions in Iraq have been fights for hundreds of years. To blame it on the US is crazy.
[Post New]07/24/2014 15:52
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Anonymous wrote:ISIS orders all girls to undergo female genital mutilation. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/isis-women-girls-fgm-mosul-un?CMP=fb_gu

Anyone care about them now? Still the US's fault?

Religious factions in Iraq have been fights for hundreds of years. To blame it on the US is crazy.


Still the US's fault. Absolutely. It formed in 2004 after Hussein was overthrown and the Sunnis forced out of government and the military.
[Post New]07/24/2014 16:00
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Anonymous wrote:Terrorist muslims are killing and persecuting christians and people blame the US? Why not place the blame sqaurely where it belongs on the back of the people causing the terror?


Isis is the direct result of disenfranchising Sunnis in Iraq. We did that.


You are right. Then we also armed them to go after Assad. Double stupidity
[Post New]07/24/2014 16:19
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Anonymous
Just terrible. 1) ISIS is terrible. 2) The US should never have started that bogus war against Iraq.

[Post New]07/24/2014 16:22
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Still the fault of the US. We disenfranchised the Sunnis and they have regrouped under ISIS, which has attracted all the Muslim detritus from the rest of the world. These are people even their mothers have a hard time loving. Same happened with al-Qaeda.

And, by the way, the US has NEVER cared about Christians in the Middle East and has actively promoted policies inimical to their interests. So much for caring about minority rights.
[Post New]07/24/2014 16:27
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Anonymous
Looks like we may have to nuke the whole region for peace and the survival of civilization.
[Post New]07/24/2014 18:18
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Anonymous wrote:ISIS orders all girls to undergo female genital mutilation. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/isis-women-girls-fgm-mosul-un?CMP=fb_gu

Anyone care about them now? Still the US's fault?

Religious factions in Iraq have been fights for hundreds of years. To blame it on the US is crazy.


Thought this sounded strange since FGM is almost unheard of in this part of the Arab world...

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/07/24/islamic_state_isn_t_circumcising_women_and_didn_t_steal_400_million_either?utm_content=buffere9517&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Since the Islamic State captured Mosul last month, it has burned shops selling alcohol, ordered veils placed over the faces of mannequins in store windows, and implemented discriminatory policies that forced the majority of the city's Christians to flee. You'd think that was dramatic enough -- but a number of apparently false stories about the jihadist group's behavior in Iraq's second-largest city are spreading like wildfire through the Western media.

The latest culprit appears to be U.N. official Jacqueline Badcock, who told reporters on Thursday that the Islamic State had issued a fatwa ordering women to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM). The procedure is quite rare in Iraq -- it is far more common in sub-Saharan Africa -- and not typically something that jihadists demand. As Agence France Press reported, instituting FGM in areas under the control of the Islamic State, which was previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, could place 4 million women and girls at risk of undergoing the procedure.

Thankfully, Badcock's claim has been widely debunked by reporters and analysts. NPR's Cairo bureau chief Leila Fadel reported that residents of Mosul, including a doctor and a tribal leader, had not heard of the fatwa. Meanwhile, an alleged Islamic State decree announcing the implementation of FGM was revealed to be a hoax. (The U.N. office in Iraq did not respond to requests for comment on the source of Badcock's claim.)
[Post New]07/24/2014 18:40
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Anonymous wrote:With all the horrible news, the persecution of Christians in Iraq is not getting a lot of attention. I really feel for these poor people being forced from their homes, their belongings being taken from them, and having to flee just because of their faith. Really sad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/world/middleeast/concern-and-support-for-iraqi-christians-forced-by-isis-militants-to-flee-mosul.html?_r=0


Didn't John McCain pressure the US to give them weapons to fight Assad in Syria? I guess they have expanded beyond Syria. Another USA fuck up.
[Post New]07/24/2014 18:57
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Anonymous
Say what you like about Saddam Hussein and Bashar Assad, but Christians and Armenians in Iraq and Syria never had anything to worry about during their rule.
[Post New]07/24/2014 19:05
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Looks like we may have to nuke the whole region for peace and the survival of civilization.

1. The bad conditions now may be resolved peacefully in the future.
2. Nuking the whole region, in addition to mass murder, is genocide.
3. Many of the countries in the region, or some of their powerful allies, could easily retaliate, and nuclear war would happen.
[Post New]07/24/2014 19:44
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Anonymous wrote:Looks like we may have to nuke the whole region for peace and the survival of civilization.


We need to start leaving it the fuck alone.
[Post New]07/25/2014 06:18
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Anonymous
Now they are blowing up millenia old shines and sites. They are destroying, not only their own culture, but the global culture.

[Post New]07/25/2014 08:41
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Anonymous wrote:Now they are blowing up millenia old shines and sites. They are destroying, not only their own culture, but the global culture.


Seems that destroying culture is always one of the first thing these regressive kooks do when they take power. Then it's on to brutalizing everybody who doesn't subscribe to their version of Islam.
[Post New]07/27/2014 21:46
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Anonymous
Does anyone actually believe Obama is arming ISIS directly, and not moderate rebels? If so, what evidence are you using for your convictions?
[Post New]07/27/2014 22:32
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Anonymous wrote:ISIS orders all girls to undergo female genital mutilation. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/isis-women-girls-fgm-mosul-un?CMP=fb_gu

Anyone care about them now? Still the US's fault?

Religious factions in Iraq have been fights for hundreds of years. To blame it on the US is crazy.


That story about FGM is a hoax.

Their destruction of an 1800-year-old church in Mosul is painful, condemnable without exception, and wholly in violation of every Qur'anic principle. In fact, the Qur'an 22:41 specifically commands Muslims to protect Churches from destruction. ISIS must be brought to justice for their crimes against Christians and all humanity. Whatever religion they claim -- it is not Islam
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