Posted on 10/13/2015 7:18:13 PM PDT by markomalley
The Islamic State terror group claims it will be executing 180 Assyrian Christians who were kidnapped in mass raids in February, after negotiators failed to meet the jihadists' high asking price to free the hostages.
ARA News reported on Monday that the terror group is asking for $12 million for the release of the Assyrians, a sum deemed "unbearable" for the community.
"The negotiations, led by Bishop Ephrem Otnaial, head of the Church of the East in Syria, have been suspended due to the unbearable demands of the terror group," revealed Osama Edward, director of the Assyrian Human Rights Network.
"ISIS threatened to execute the 180 hostages if we didn't pay the ransom," he continued.
A member of the Civil Peace Committee in Tel Temir, who chose to remain anonymous, said that "internal rifts" emerged among Assyrian officials about how to gather the money.
The 180 Assyrians are part of a group of 230 people kidnapped by IS in February from villages in the Khabur river valley in Syria.
Early in September, hopes emerged that the hostages might be freed, after IS reportedly agreed to lower its ransom demands.
Syrian Catholic Archbishop Jacques Behnan Hindo revealed that negotiators had managed to explain to IS forces that asking for 23 million dollars to free 230 people was an impossible sum, and claimed that IS had decided to ask for "much, much less," though he did not share the precise amount.
"Therefore, now, the biggest obstacle regarding the release of our Assyrian brothers is no longer money, but the difficulty of how to organize the phase of liberation," Hindo said at the time.
The Catholic Archbishop even suggested that buses were being organized to collect the hostages and bring them back to Hassaké.
The terror group, which has been persecuting Christians and other religions minorities across Iraq and Syria, has released small groups of hostages it kidnapped from Khabur, but is still holding the vast majority of people it took captive.
IS has specifically targeted Assyrians, looking to drive them out of their millennia-old communities.
Last week, IS released a video showing the executions of three of the hostages, which drew condemnation from persecution watchdog groups, such as A Demand for Action.
"We condemn this latest act of barbarism in the strongest possible terms. The systematic ethno-religious cleansing of Assyrians/Syriacs/Chaldeans continues. They are helpless. They are children. They are women. They are somebody's father and brother," wrote A Demand for Action spokesperson Diana Yaqco.
"We plea and beg of the international community to intervene immediately," Yaqco added. "We have been driven out of our ancestral lands. We have been killed and crucified. The international community must act now to save lives of others kidnapped."
The hostages themselves are probably praying that whatever center they are at, will be bombed.
...and the magic negro dances in the Oval Office..
Go get ‘em, Putin.
Tell me again why our government wants to depose Assad?..............
It’s 3.26am, I’m about to go for a nap. What an utterly horrifying bedtime story.
The fact that this isn’t even on the British news, that it’s not even considered important, is incredibly shameful.
Let me guess, it was accompanied by a request for more Ammo and Weaons too!
There is NO “Radical Islam”. It’s ALL JUST Islam and, if they adhere to the teachings of Mohammed, THEY’RE ALL RADICAL because, ultimately, they ALL want kafirs (that’s us) D.E.A.D.! Get used to it!!
If you genuinely want to understand the TRUE, VIOLENT, DUALISTIC, SCHIZOPHRENIC nature of ISLAM in order to become part of a solution instead of part of the problem that spells doom for Western Civilization (and, NO, that’s not too extreme a statement), you need to spend 40 minutes with Dr. Bill Warner here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBDDC4wVxk
(Don’t be concerned when Dr. Warner mentions that he “sells” books. Though I suggest you sample the info in the first 5 minutes if only to get a sense of how thorough his research has been, if short on time, slide out past the 5 minute mark for the red meat beyond. THAT’S where the really good stuff is.)
And this is ESPECIALLY for any antisemites who view the “Jewish Conspiracy” as the primary threat to your existence and are put off because the video was posted by a Jewish group. Try to think of any nations conquered by violent, bloody Jewish jihad and send me their names.
After watching this presentation, if you STILL believe that Bush was correct when he called islam a “religion of peace” (it’s not a religion and it ain’t peaceful) and Obama was right when he recently declared islam morally equivalent or superior to the Christian Crusades, you are DEFINITELY a BIG part of the problem.
One last comment vis-a-vis the SILENT “moderate” muslims: They are IRRELEVANT inasmuch as once their more aggressive bretheren secure their sought after world domination, those “moderates” will swing in behind the victors to also enjoy the fruits of that victory.
Gang, this is a WAR and it is one we dare not lose!
PLEASE SHARE THIS BEFORE THEY STRIKE OFF YOUR FINGER TIPS, YOUR HEAD or SOME OTHER ESSENTIAL BODY PART!!
Let me guess. This was NOT discussed in the Deamoncrat debate.
A slaughter of biblical proportions.
“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’ “ (John 15: 18-25
If Christians had captured Muslims for ransom and were preparing to murder them, the liberals would be
all over this, as would President Evil.
The Obamatollah is STILL arming ISIL.....the Christian genocidal maniacs.
WHY has no one arrested the Obamatollah for treason,war crimes and aiding and abetting Christian genocide?
WHERE is Congress?
Bush seemed to have the idea that he could talk the “extremists” into being “moderate.”
That is historically very naive.
That will teach those Christians for what they did in the Crusades all right.
I always regarded that as a sign of weakness on his part. I'm sure the muzzies did as well. They understand only force. If you don't have sufficient capability to hold them in check, they will sense the weakness and go on the attack. Islam operates on a submit or die policy. We have to draw the line. If you murder, rape or maim based on your Islamic beliefs, you die. No exceptions. We can not tolerate that behavior.
A quick death would be better than what ISIS has planned... Maybe we can ask Putin if he’ll bomb those areas...
May God send a Frogfoot. At the perfect moment.
Amen to that.
“The fact that this isn’t even on the British news, that it’s not even considered important, is incredibly shameful.”
You get a lot of that from the media. Sleep well.
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