Muslim insurgents behead 14-year-old Christian boy

World Net Daily ^ | October 31, 2006

[NYer]

A website in Assyria is confirming that a 14-year-old Christian boy who was working a 12-hour shift maintaining an electric generator has been murdered by Muslim insurgents.

The Assyrian International News Agency said the tragedy was reported by an Assyrian language web page at www.ankawa.com.

The youth was identified as Ayad Tariq, who lived in Baqouba, Iraq, and was at work on Oct. 21 when a group of "disguised Muslim insurgents" went into the power plant shortly after his shift began at 6 a.m.

The website reported the insurgents asked him for his identification and, according to other witnesses who hid and stayed alive to report on the attack, questioned his identification card's reference to him as a "Christian."

Are you truly a "Christian sinner," they asked.

"Yes, I am Christian but I am not a sinner," he replied.

The insurgents then called him a "dirty Christian sinner," grabbed his limbs and held them while beheading him, the witnesses reported.

They were shouting, "Allahu akbar! Allahu Akbar!" during the murder, witnesses said.

An organization called AssyrianChristians.com said they are the indigenous people of Iraq, with a population that has been in the Middle East from the time of Christ.

However, they have faced a number of purges by the region's rulers over time, including the present attacks by powerful Islamic factions across Iran, Iraq and neighboring nations, officials said.

Only two generations back, Assyrian Christians made up 20 percent of the population of the Middle East, but during the Assyrian Genocide of 1915, an estimated three million Christians were slaughtered there, the organization said.

Current estimates are that there are about 2.5 million Assyrian Christians in Iraq.

Kenneth Scott LaTourette wrote in "A History of Christianity" that the Assyrian Christians became the first nation to accept Christianity, and one of the largest missionary-sending peoples in Christian history.

"The Assyrian Christians are one of the last remaining Christian communities in the Middle East," said Rev. Ken Joseph Jr., of the Assyrian Christians organization.

Tens of thousands of Assyrian Christians have fled their traditional homelands in recent months, officials confirmed.

[presidio9]

My Catholic faith finds itself struggling with a desire for carpet bombing in response to this one. Is that wrong? Some people seem determined to never learn from this world.

[goodform]

Fortunately in America, we have the Second Amendment. It won't be so easy for them when they start here and I am sure they are working toward that end.

They won't need to be violent here. We're doing a good enough job contracepting and aborting ourselves into non-existence. They're just sitting around watching the calendar and doing the math.

[NonLinear]

Hey RS,

Care to defend this too?

[DungeonMaster]

A real martyr.

[Ladysmith]

God bless you! You'll be in my prayers.

[M1Tanker]

Thanks everyone, but it is you that allow me and my brethren to do our jobs.

This is why next Tuesday is so important. I may not like the fact too many Republicans have gone RINO (I'm a Reagan Conservative), but I am voting all "R" because this is probably one of the most important elections in our nation's history.

The Dems have no plan and no will to protect Americans. They failed miserably in the 90s and now we are picking up their bloody mess. If the left wins, this will happen more and more in the US. The left's answer will be to disarm Americans for "our own protection" and coddle the terrorists just like they did in the 90s. This incident in the article, which is repeated many times over the world every day by islamic "radicals", cannot be allowed to continue.

[mhking]

MEMO TO: Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid:

How soon do you want them to start lining up people at churches in the U.S.?

Are you willing to renounce your Christianity for these evildoers? Are you willing to renounce your humanity?

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Phantom Patriot]

Animals, crazed fanatical rabid animals


And what do we do with crazed, fanatical, rabid animals?

[BackInBlack]

I presume your Luke quotation is meant tongue-in-cheek because it's way out of theological context.

[BackInBlack]

yes he did say that -- and what's frustrating is that's his job, because i wish i could deliver that eternal punishment myself.

[IrishMike]

Animals, crazed fanatical rabid animals


And what do we do with crazed, fanatical, rabid animals?
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I like your thinking !!!!!

[Fiddlstix]

Click the Pic

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I always found it ironic that Queen Noor's grandfather was an Assyrian Christian. And to top it off, her brother's name is Christian Halaby.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Prayers for him and his family.

Words cannot describe what I think of the perpetrators of this crime.

[azhenfud]

"I simply struggle with Christ's command to love, forgive, and not to be stirred to anger or hatred."

I've struggled with that also, but I've come to this realization: one should not be stirred to anger against an enemy on their own behalf, because it only breeds vengeance and hatred - which fogs reason and logic and defies discipline required of a disciple. HOWEVER, one can and must seek justice and may rightly intercede on behalf of another who's been or is being wrongly treated. One may do so while remaining biblically principled. (Romans Ch.13)

Radical islamites need killing.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I'm sure this story will run on the NYT front page.

[woollyone]

Stay safe!

...and let the Crusade begin anew

[Irishguy]

a martyr for christianity...god i hope i have even an ounce of the bravery and faith of this boy...


amazing the difference here is a martyr for christanity, yet a martyr for islam requires a nail bomb...i find it hard to believe its the same God accepting both..

[Armando Guerra]

Liberal democrats are now trying to figure out what the boy did to provoke his beheading.

No they aren't. He was Christian. That makes him an oppressive, hateful, bigot, homophobe in their eyes so he would have deserved it. The liberal democrats are just waiting hopefully to see the beheadings become common place here.

[PGalt]

Thanks. America's finest bump!