Posted on 07/21/2014 5:26:32 PM PDT by markomalley
How grim is you life? We watch in horror as Christians in Iraq are being persecuted, driven, hunted by Islamic terrorists. The Religion of Peace… right?
‘Christian families are on their way to Dohuk and Arbil [in Kurdistan]. For the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians’
Chaldean patriarch Louis Sako
From the Daily Mail:
Thousands of Iraqi Christians pour out of Mosul after ISIS jihadis give them deadline to convert, pay or face death
Thousands of Iraqi Christians today poured out of Mosul after ISIS jihadis gave them an ultimatum – convert, pay or face death.
The Islamic State terror group declared that Christians must either convert to Islam, pay a special tax or leave the city, around 250 miles north-west of Baghdad.
If they did not do so by noon (9am GMT) today, there would be ‘nothing for them but the sword’, it said.[...]
From Catholic World Report:
ISIS tags Christian homes in Mosul for confiscation as Christians flee
Chaldean Catholic Patriarch: “Iraq will come face to face with human, civil, and historic catastrophe”Warning that “Iraq will come face to face with human, civil, and historic catastrophe,” Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako has written a letter “to the people of conscience and good will in Iraq and the world” in which he describes the dire situation in which Iraqi Christians find themselves.
“The control exercised by the Islamist Jihadists upon the city of Mosul, and their proclamation of it as an Islamic State, after several days of calm and expectant watching of events, has now come to reflect negatively upon the Christian population of the city and its environs,” the patriarch reported in his July 17 letter. “The only alternative is to abandon the city and their houses with only the clothes they are wearing, taking nothing else. Moreover, by Islamic law, upon their departure, their houses are no longer their properties but are instantly confiscated as property of the Islamic state.”
He also stated that ISIS forces had started marking the homes of Christians in Mosul with the Arabic letter “N,” for “Nazara” (Christian). “We do not know what will happen in future days because in an Islamic state the Al-sharia or Islamic code of law is powerful and has been interpreted to require the issuance of new I.Ds for the population based on religious or sectarian affiliation,” Patriarch Sako wrote.
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From Breitbart:
Iraq’s Christian leaders have just made a desperate cry for help. Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, head of Iraq’s Catholic church, has issued an appeal “to all who have a living conscience in Iraq and all the world.”
The situation for Iraq’s Christians has been steadily deteriorating ever since the 2003 invasion, in part because the U.S. never acknowledged that Christians were being targeted by Islamists and did not prioritize protection of Christians or other minorities.
But with the recent sweep through Mosul and other Iraqi cities by the jihadi group ISIS, Iraq’s Christians look to be on the verge of genocide.
On June 16th it was reported that ISIS had marked the doors of Christians in red. Patriarch Sako’s letter confirms that rumor. While no one yet knows what this ominous sign foretells, Sako and other Christian leaders are pleading with the world to intervene before the meaning of the sign is made clear.
Earlier this week, Iraqi human rights activist Pascale Warda came to Washington from Baghdad to raise the alarm with the State Department and members of Congress. She was accompanied by Bishop Yousif Habash, who now resides in Elizabeth, New Jersey, but who is originally from Qaraqosh, a city 15 miles from Mosul which was also recently overrun by ISIS, where the Christians still speak Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus.
Bishop Habash said, “Christians throughout the Middle East have been targeted, and we are on the verge of being exterminated. The West stepped in to stop the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims and Kosovar Muslims, so we know it can be done. The West must step in now and save the Middle East’s Christians, or we will be wiped out.”[...]
Sts. Nunilo and Alodia! Pray for us!
St. Lawrence of Brindisi! Pray for us!
Kerry, Obama, Hillary, Reid, Pelosi and all the rest WANT to surround America with Islamists with nukes because in their minds Christian America must contained and rendered POWERLESS.
The pope and other Christian leaders need to plea on their behalf!
**Iraq’s Christian leaders have just made a desperate cry for help. Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, head of Iraq’s Catholic church, has issued an appeal “to all who have a living conscience in Iraq and all the world.”**
We are praying for you.
AMEN !!! I totally agree. I have stated before I have Christian relatives who support Obama because 1) he stated that he is a Christian (yeah right) and 2) he is black (let’s make history). I have also said United States Christian are spoil brats (not all) who totally ignore their brother and sisters in Christ being persecuted in the Middle East, China, and Africa, and Russia. Yet they vote into office politicians who support the oppression of our Christ Family like Obama. God will not be mocked he will bring his wrath upon this nation so Christians will know what our Christ Family have suffered in other nations. God is the God of Love but also JUSTICE. I pray for this nation that God gives strength and courage to our brother and sisters in this nation to wake up and fight communism which is rearing its ugly head.
Fully agree ... Guess it comes down to a choice of fight or not fight. The war has come though none of America wanted it. May when the enemy strikes next, we (all of America) repels that enemy fully and completely. Is certain our politicians and lame-stream do not even care the enemy is inside of gates. But I can’t help but think, if God was on our side, this war would not have come. Know it is demons also. So perhaps God is on our side, which is yet to be known. May God give America strength to beat back the rising storm.
I don’t think God commanded us to be a roll over, a push over, give in, allow for “tolerance” – if you catch my drift…..look at Israel 1967....... It was the will of God for that nation to take back their land. But also look how they must fight for it.... Every square inch of it.... Is that a situation to “love you enemy, turn the other cheek”?
I don’t think so!..... We have to stand up in battle, a battle in the mind, a battle in this life to stand on Gods Word as the forces of evil wear us down..... Should I allow my wife to become an immoral woman? Or should I “give in” to the pressures of the Feminist control of our society? Which is it? Give in, or Fight? This is precisely why the Christians are being slaughtered!
Forgot...quoted above by poster living in Phillipines where Muslims are attempting to take over his city...
With God on Our Side by Bob Dylan ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0YLuFZcOe4
At least under Sadam...
....and Assad.....and Khadaffy....
Exactly!
“It is difficult to believe in God when certain people aren’t struck by lightning.”
Bull, God works through men.
The fact that His giving "Christian" men a pair is just a technicality so often is the real problem. A lack of owner supplied steel where required.
Where is the UN speaking out against this genocide? Where is ambassador Samantha Power speaking out against these atrocities? Where is Obama?
All of them will have to answer one day. I wouldn’t want to be them.
I pray for the Christians in the middle east.
AMEN !!! I totally agree. I have stated before I have Christian relatives who support Obama
They’re ignorant fools.
Sorry, the commander in chief is backing ISIS. we’ll talk next regime.
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He’s been supplying them with weapons. He will have his day when he faces the Lord. He will realize, as so many of us do, that he’s a fool.
...” God works through men.......The fact that His giving “Christian” men a pair is just a technicality so often is the real problem.... A lack of ‘owner supplied steel’ where required”....
I completely agree....kinda like the guy who complains about not working but won’t get off his butt to find a job. One has to ‘put feet to their prayers’ and let God bring the outcome.
I read where the Kurds are the last line of defense for some of these Christian towns outside of Mosul and many Christians are joining forces with the Kurds to fight.
Obama will do nothing to help Christians anywhere in the world. Obama is fundamentally a coward, a liar, and a nobody punk who was guided and manipulated into the presidency. Obama is America’s greatest mistake, and he not only is destroying the U.S. he is throwing the world into chaos. Regardless of whether he is calculating, or simply inept, he is Satan’s tool doing Satan’s business. The smiling, half-witted cretin stands before the cameras making jokes and talking trash while the world burns. As a people and a nation we will be no help to Christians or other people around the world until we rid ourselves of the demonic freak that sits in the White House.
Where are the Patriots that are in a position to alter our path?
...”Where is ambassador Samantha Power speaking out against these atrocities? “....
Newt had it....
Obama Ambassador UN Samantha Powers on airliner......saying “ We must...’stop at nothing’.... to bring those responsible to justice.”
—really? Nothing? Really?...Newt
...”Where is ambassador Samantha Power speaking out against these atrocities? “....
Newt had it....
Obama Ambassador UN Samantha Powers on airliner......saying “ We must...’stop at nothing’.... to bring those responsible to justice.”
—really? Nothing? Really?...Newt
Not so sure God is quite on our side as we once knew......seems like he’s ‘more’ than disgusted with us Americans.
Check the Bible,... whenever Israel forgot God or turned away they were ‘invaded’ by the enemy. An ‘invasion’ doesn’t have to be militarily. Just means the walls are down and nobody’s guarding the hen house anymore.
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