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'The Situation Is Very Vulnerable': Iran-Backed Militias Ethnically Cleansing Northen Iraq
The Telegraph ^ | 7/12/2019 | Tim Stanley

Posted on 07/13/2019 8:55:35 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...

The official story is that northern Iraq is at peace. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has largely been defeated; the Iraqi Army and its allies are in charge. But for Christians, the persecution continues.

Those who can are getting out. Those who stay are preparing themselves for more violence. "Things are bad more than any other time," Fr Behnam Benoka tells me at his church in Bartella, a ghost town protected, if that's the right word, by soldiers with Kalashnikovs. "It's harder even than before Isil."

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1 posted on 07/13/2019 8:55:35 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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Christian persecution in China, Iran, Syria, etc, etc, etc, ... and to some degree even now in Canada and the UK of all places.


2 posted on 07/13/2019 8:57:21 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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Anything that forms the basis of the free Western world is under attack by radical leftist communists. As in Marxism, anything that represent power (faith in this case) is the enemy. Likewise wealth, freedom, arming, etc are all threats to the communist ideology where the state is God and has all power OVER THE PEOPLE. Nothing new, but always needs restating.


3 posted on 07/13/2019 9:10:15 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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In other words:

Someone out there sees a really tasty war that THEY don't want to fight.

"Let's him AND YOU have a rowdy, bloody fight."

4 posted on 07/13/2019 9:16:29 AM PDT by gaijin
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We have enough problems here to deal with ... this is NOT our problem. Maybe they should make more effort to get along... whatever.


5 posted on 07/13/2019 9:19:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC Bimbos & Pretentious men: EVERY CHILD RAPIST on Epstein's plane was a powerful democrat...)
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Somebody should tell the Pope about this. On second thought, never mind. He’s too busy welcoming peaceful Muslim invaders into Europe.


6 posted on 07/13/2019 9:24:22 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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George Bush kicked out the chair from under the Christians in Iraq with his invasion, and Obama and McCain nearly finished them off with their use and support of Islamist “rebels” to go after Assad.


7 posted on 07/13/2019 9:29:27 AM PDT by PGR88
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Northern Iraq? I thought we went to war, and spent 5 trillion dollars, to “liberate” Iraq? Now we have to send 300000 troops back in to do another “liberation”?


8 posted on 07/13/2019 9:32:42 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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There exist Stupid Weak Christians,
and there are Strong Christians.

Stupid Christians deserve to die.

They are ignorant that Islam is their murderous enemy.
They turn their cheek to evil.
They do not prepare for this evil.
They try to convert their enemy who sells their daughter as whores.
It is their badge of honor to be persecuted.

So be it. Die.

But us Strong Christians will only go down fighting.


9 posted on 07/13/2019 9:35:55 AM PDT by TheNext (Diversity: Darker Replaces Lighter)
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We need to send everything we got back to Iraq, NOW!!!


10 posted on 07/13/2019 9:36:03 AM PDT by JonPreston
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This is the Iranian playbook - it is a long term strategy to take absolute control.

They did it first in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, establishing a front group militia (Hizbollah), and gradually purging and corrupting opponents in Lebanese politics.

They have already dominated Diyala Province in Iraq (which borders Iran, and are now extending their purges into the Northern areas where their Shi’ite militias deployed during the fight against ISIS - including the oil-rich area of Kirkuk.

The Iranians have been running death squads in Iraq since the fall of Saddam.

They view Christians as natural allies of the West, and seek to conduct sectarian cleansing of them, in a gradual, covert way - isolating them from political power and economic opportunity, while terrorizing them into flight or submission.

They have a famously sophisticated, long term approach to subverting Governments and societies in the region, where Shi’ite populations exist.


11 posted on 07/13/2019 9:36:52 AM PDT by BeauBo
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And the neocons at FR could hardly wait to get it on. Warning about this at the time was a shortcut to a zot at the time.


12 posted on 07/13/2019 9:37:55 AM PDT by Romulus
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This is not our problem. Not exactly. Societies of Planet Earth are interconnected. What is happening in Iraq is happening in Minnesota and is happening in England. Epidemics in Mexico can easily move to California. Ignorance is not bliss. Be aware of your surroundings. Your car may be next to be high jacked. Let’s hope that the HIV virus stays in Africa and does not reach The USA. Oh wait. It is international. Same thing with Moslems and Communist killing Christians. Be aware of your surroundings.


13 posted on 07/13/2019 9:38:30 AM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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Didn’t the Pope say that religion is the opiate of the people?


14 posted on 07/13/2019 9:41:55 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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... I think you need to reframe your concepts with concepts if marxist-muslim coalition.


15 posted on 07/13/2019 9:46:31 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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Iran-backed Iraqi militias can’t be worse than America&NATO backed Syrian “freedom fighters”


16 posted on 07/13/2019 9:48:18 AM PDT by granada
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“This is the Iranian playbook - it is a long term strategy to take absolute control”

They got immense help from George W Bush when he eliminated Iran’s no 1 enemy, Saddam Hussein

As Trump has pointed out, Saddam was a check on Iran. Ousting him was a gift to Iran.

At the cost of 4000 American lives and trillions of taxpayers dollars


17 posted on 07/13/2019 9:48:44 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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“Didn’t the Pope say that religion is the opiate of the people?”

Marx said it

And George Bush said that invading Iraq would “liberate” it


18 posted on 07/13/2019 9:50:06 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: Romulus
Warning about this at the time was a shortcut to a zot at the time.

Lordy, ain't that the truth! CaL was leading the charge :)

19 posted on 07/13/2019 9:50:22 AM PDT by JonPreston
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Crusades II is justified.


20 posted on 07/13/2019 9:50:54 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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