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Iraq's beleaguered Christians make final stand on the Mosul frontline
The Telegraph ^ | June 22, 2014 | Richard Spencer

Posted on 06/22/2014 4:18:35 AM PDT by Biggirl

Captain Firaz Jacob knows he may well be mounting a last stand at the frontiers of the Christian settlement of Bartella on the outskirts of Mosul. Less than a mile down the road are the jihadists of Isis, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, and the portly, middle-aged Mr Jacob is aware that his home-grown militia are outnumbered.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Islam; Orthodox Christian
KEYWORDS: assyrian; biden; christianpersecution; iraq; iraqichristians; mosul; muslimworld; obama; rop; waronterror
Prayers for these suffering Christians.
1 posted on 06/22/2014 4:18:35 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl
Obama will never help them.

They cryptoMoslem Tyrant: "With no Koran in hand, they must die in their land."

2 posted on 06/22/2014 4:22:13 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Biggirl

At the moment, ISI has to worry about a two front opposition from the Shia majority in central and southern Iraq - plus the added threat of Iranian Revolutionary Guard moving north that will threaten their positions....the last thing they want is for the Christian majority in the world to hear of this - and begin to send aid in various forms that will further erode these early gains made by ISI...they know they have not solidified their positions at the moment...and at the moment the Christians will be left alone....but not forever...


3 posted on 06/22/2014 4:32:56 AM PDT by BCW (Amazon: "Babylon's Covert War" - the Iraq conflict explained in detail)
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To: Diogenesis

Totally unrelated to the post:

this picture shows Obama with graying hair. Most if not all Presidents leave office significantly aged, but the picture seems very odd. Why, his eyebrows seem to have no graying to them. So it begs the question which is faked? The gray in his hair or does he have overdone eyebrow makeup?


4 posted on 06/22/2014 4:33:54 AM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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To: Diogenesis
He's looking more and more like his daddy (Frank Marshall Davis) every day.

5 posted on 06/22/2014 4:38:46 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Diogenesis
He's looking more and more like his daddy (Frank Marshall Davis) every day.

6 posted on 06/22/2014 4:39:03 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Biggirl

Incredible courage, but not a prayer if that bunch decides to advance. It’s possible that they will “tolerate” some token Christians, the same way that Iran still tolerates a handful of Jews (believe it or not)...as a symbol to the world of how multi-ethnic they are.


7 posted on 06/22/2014 4:40:18 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Biggirl

call it what it is...holocaust


8 posted on 06/22/2014 4:42:43 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Biggirl
They're right back to their muzzie beginnings..."Kill all the Christians and Jews".

Stop with the PC. This is a murderous political system....not a religion. It's followers are forced...by birth...and under the penalty of death. Every single Muslim....violent or not....is a supporter of this system that believes in world domination way beyond Hitler's dreams.

9 posted on 06/22/2014 4:47:01 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Biggirl

Many Years.


10 posted on 06/22/2014 4:48:34 AM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: Diogenesis

Didn’t Obama once say:

“I will stand with the Christians should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

Maybe I’m remembering that quotation incorrectly. I’ll have to go check on it.


11 posted on 06/22/2014 5:01:26 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: SMARTY

Holocaust against Christians and Jews. Obama will not help the white marine in the Mexican jail. Obama only helps muslims.


12 posted on 06/22/2014 5:19:44 AM PDT by abclily
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To: EBH
So it begs the question which is faked? The gray in his hair or does he have overdone eyebrow makeup?

All of the above.

13 posted on 06/22/2014 5:49:28 AM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: EBH

My head went gray at 26. My chest hairs went a few years later. My eyebrows, nearly 30 years later are still dark brown. Hair is funny stuff.


14 posted on 06/22/2014 6:18:27 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: abclily

It’s not the first time a sitting president ignored a holocaust.

Germany
Cambodia
Rawanda

I dislike Obama immensely. But this is pretty much status quo for the US.


15 posted on 06/22/2014 6:20:37 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Biggirl
As I never tire of reporting on FR, Obama's history as a facilitator of Christian persecution goes back a lot farther than Iraq.

This is the man who stumped in Kenya (illegal) for Raila Odinga, whom he claims as a cousin. Odinga was trained in East Germany, along with several Obama relatives, is a fervent communist who uses jihad and sharia law to subvert Kenya's shaky democracy.

Odinga's Obama-supported platform: Independent Muslim provinces ruled by Sharia law, expulsion of missionaries from Kenya, expulsion of Christians from Kenya's government, confiscation of Christian-owned lands

When this Communist jihadi Odinga lost his internationally monitored election, for which Obama AND Dick Morris raised several million (illegally) and for whom they campaigned on the ground for in Kenya (illegal) ... the SOB fomented a civil war in which at least several thousand Christians were massacred, their lands confiscated, and survivors driven from their homes.

Whereupon then-Jr. Senator-from Illinois Obama, began intense lobbying with the our Department of State and The UN to broker a power-sharing deal to include Odinga in the legal government as PM. Odinga was an honored guest at the Obama Inauguration.

This entire sordid episode was financed by none other than George Soros on a pass-through the Clinton Foundation. This was amply documented by the BBC at the time, but the story was buried in the US and even the McCain Campaign chose to ignore it, allowing a President to take office with Christian blood on his hands.

Obviously then, it is completely fatuous to expect this administration to come to the aid of Christians. Christians have been crucified in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria and Iraq. Burned alive in Pakistan, tortured in Afghanistan. Through the Obama Administration, our tax dollars pay for it. The United States has officially made us all war criminals. The Republicans? They are complicit.

16 posted on 06/22/2014 8:08:37 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The GOP is dying. What do we do now?)
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To: LucyT; maggief; null and void; Velveeta; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; MamaDearest; Myrddin; azishot; ...

News of 2007/8 Ping.


17 posted on 06/22/2014 8:10:18 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The GOP is dying. What do we do now?)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Thank-you for your comment. In regards to Obama, nothing and I mean NOTHING surprises me anymore.


18 posted on 06/22/2014 9:57:31 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: jsanders2001

Spencer’s report in the Telegraph doesn’t indicate if this group in on the Kurdish side outside Mosul. Sounds like it might be.

In the Religion forum, on a thread titled Iraq’s beleaguered Christians make final stand on the Mosul frontline, jsanders2001 wrote:
He’s looking more and more like his daddy (Frank Marshall Davis) every day.

From earler postings I thought there was that possibility. Not from what’s posted here it doesn’t. Obama’s head is wider and a pronounced egged shaped, Marshall’s head is an extended oval. Obama’s ears are very pronounced. Marshall’s aren’t in fact they’re almost receeding. The shape of the mouths and eyes are even different. Those are genetic traits and features that most usually show up in siblings. They’re not present here.


19 posted on 06/22/2014 1:01:46 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: mosesdapoet

Age, weight, and gravity can change or alter the appearance of particular featues on a person. He sure doesn’t look like O Sr. Possibly created in a labor hatched? He appears to have Middle Eastern characteristics at times to me.


20 posted on 06/22/2014 1:28:34 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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