As the global Islamic jihad against Christianity and Christians continues to rage and escalate, will Christian leaders in the West finally wake up to the reality of it? Or will they continue to deceive themselves into thinking that if they keep quiet about it, their “dialogue” with Muslim leaders in the West will finally bear some actual fruit?
More on this story. “Christians in their thousands flee terror in Iraq Islamic jihadists rampage through city of Mosul,” UCA News, June 14, 2014:
The news of a church under construction which exploded east of Mosul is already on social networks. Together with the news that the monastery of Mar Behnam – dating back to the fourth century, one of the most important historical sites of Assyrian Christianity – is in the hands of militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant since yesterday, after taking control of Iraq’s second city.
Many question marks are also concentrated on the fate of the churches in Mosul itself, hastily abandoned by the clergy and the faithful who, despite all the suffering experienced by Iraq over the last decade, had always had the courage to remain. Now, they too are among the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing towards Kurdistan.
With the dramatic news that has been arriving from Mosul since yesterday, there is also the totally particular drama of the local Christian community, struggling with the nightmare of a jihadist militia which they know well and who have already shown what they are capable of in the Syrian province of Raqqa.
There is an email that expresses all the drama of the climate that reigns in these hours in Northern Iraq, sent last night by a Dominican religious in Mosul to his provincial superior: “I am writing in a critical and apocalyptic situation. The majority of the inhabitants of the city have already fled their homes and have ran away to the villages; they sleep out in the open without anything to eat and drink. Thousands of gunmen of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have attacked Mosul in the past two days. They murdered adults and children. Hundreds of bodies have been left in the streets and in the homes, without any mercy. Even the Army and the regular forces have abandoned the city, along with the governor. From the mosques you hear the cry: “Allah Akhbar, long live the Islamic state”.
From the message you can imagine that even in Qaraqosh – the most important town of the plain of Nineveh, where in recent years many Christians had taken refuge – the situation is disturbing. A Dominican religious wrote yesterday: “Qaraqosh is flooded with all kinds of refugees, without food or accommodation. The checkpoints and Kurdish militias are preventing many refugees from entering Kurdistan. What we are seeing and we are living in the last two days is horrible and catastrophic. The monastery of Mar Behnam and other churches have fallen into rebel hands … and now they have arrived here and five minutes ago they entered Qaraqosh. We are surrounded and threatened with death … Pray for us. I’m sorry but I cannot go on writing … They’re not very far from our monastery …”
marc says
What is the Christian equivalent of the word “Judenfrei”?
ploome says
islam
Charli Main says
Obamarized
gravenimage says
That would be “Christlichrein”, marc.
Just what I was thinking—this is out-and-out genocide.
Peter Buckley says
If there’s a way of getting the Christians out of the area,The West should fund Israel to take them. It seems like the safest place in the Middle East.
Get all non-muslims out of Islamic hell-holes.
raven says
Islamic hell-holes
…soon that will include England, France, Beligum etc.
Gardener says
If anything, the solution would be for Christians from around the world to immigrate to these areas and preferably carry arms while doing so to make sure immigration is successful. Abandoning sites where Christianity has flourished since the times of the apostles is not a solution to anything. As the saying goes, it is enough for evil to reign that good men do nothing. Instead of retreating, it might be time for the sea of Christianity to flow back.
gravenimage says
Gardener, right now Christians make up *less than 3% of the population* in Iraq.
There is a time to fight, and a time when fighting is simply suicidal.
Israel helped evacuate the Jews of Yemen a couple of decades age—not because they wanted to see the end of the ancient culture of Judaism in the Arabian peninsula, but because they *wanted to save lives*.
Right now, I don’t see that Christians in Mesopotamia—and many other parts of Dar-al-islam—face anything more than full-on genocide if they can’t get out.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes.
I think right now the model for the “free world” – if we had any sense at all, which our current crop of leaders do not appear to have, alas – would be to do for the Christians of Iraq and Syria what Israel did for the Jews of Yemen (and also for the Jews of Iraq). An operation “Magic Carpet” or “Operation Exodus”.
The poster above who suggested unloading them on Israel was, I think, being very unrealistic and unfair.
The logical place for these people to be given refuge is within the majority-Christian lands of the West – throughout the Americas, and in places like Australia, and also in places like Scandinavia and France, where if accepted in sufficient numbers they could help tip the demographic balance back in Infidel favour, over against the current Mohammedan fifth columns.
Shane says
The USA should put a priority in taking Christian refugees from Islamic jihad, and stop the foolishness of allowing Muslims to immigrate into the USA. The Boston Marathon bombers were Muslim immigrants and the Fort Hood massacre was perpetrated by the son of Muslim immigrants. Also, the traitor Al-Awaki was born to Muslim immigrants in the USA. Stop the insanity!
Islamisdeath says
Wont happen the 0 in the White House is focused on the annihilation of Christians world wide. He truly hates Christians as do all lefties. No they will import more jihadis and laugh at the death of Christians.
Jay Boo says
This is what Muslim Obama has planned for the US.
Soon, Islamist financed Movies will portray an Islamic terrorist attack from Islam’s point of view along with a chorus line singing jihad chants.
PC leftists will stare at the Movies screen in an appeasement dazed awe even as they are being beheaded.
ploome says
well, the Pope seems upset
from Drudge
Pope Francis claims global economy is close to collapse and describes youth unemployment rates as an ‘atrocity’ in damning message
Roman Catholic leader warned that the economy ‘cannot take it anymore’
He blasted the ‘idolatrous’ economy for discarding a ‘whole generation’
The 77-year-old also criticised profits made from making and selling arms ..
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2657724/Pope-Francis-claims-global-economy-close-collapse-describes-youth-unemployment-rates-atrocity-damning-message.html#ixzz34dnRstqL
maybe he will get around to noticing the slaughter of Christians later….meanwhile seems like he is wetting his pantaloons thinking he might have to offend some muslims
Christians in the middle east hate Jews more than they hate muslims…..:(
sorry to say
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WVinMN says
Every time this pontificating POS starts running his mouth he loses IQ points! I doubt this moron comprehends the difference between micro and macroeconomics, and he certainly doesn’t sniff and/or give a f__k how the marxist policies he embraces are KILLING jobs around the globe, especially for young and inexperienced workers! I can’t stand this fool!
WVinMN says
“Christians in the middle east hate Jews more than they hate muslims…..:(
sorry to say”
Ding, Ding, Ding We Have a Winner!
I have a very hard time feeling sorry for them.
Jay Boo says
@WVinMN
“Christians in their thousands flee terror in Iraq Islamic jihadists rampage through city of Mosul,”
It is getting a bit stale watching some anti Christian instigators JW’s post with dual agendas then try to hide it behind a diversion.
WVinMN says
I don’t know what your particular agenda is but I’ll spell mine out in simple terms since you appear to be a bit challenged.
I was raised Catholic, do not attend church with any kind of regularity but still retain a belief in G_D. I’m also a conservative, fiscally and otherwise, and therefore, I loathe the current Pope. The man is nothing more than a 40 Watt marxist who travels the world spreading his brand of stupidity and ignorance to throngs of low information twits. And finally, yes, I can’t stand the double dealing Arab Christians who have sold out the Jews for centuries in order to buy a bit of security in the face of muslim persecution. They are and remain cowards of the highest order.
Aton says
>>Peter
>>Get all non-muslims out of Islamic hell-holes.
Errr, hold on a minute Peter. These are Christian lands, and they were Christian for hundreds of years before Islam was invented. And they remained majority Christian even during the rule of Islam, for hundreds of more years. Most Turkish cities, for instance, were majority Christian (under Muslim rule) until the beginning of the 20th century.
I think what you mean is: “get all Muslims out of wonderful Christian lands.”
And I say this, as an Atheist.
Aton
Peter Buckley says
Islam is a dying religion.
Iran will collapse., provided the West DOESN’T intervene.
It will become secular democracy. Will start to receive Western aid. Christianity and atheism growing throughout the area. Sunnis meantime will be killing each other. This will spread to Kurds. “Muslim lands” will collapse and be at the mercy of West/Russia/China etc. by middle of century.
Muhammad:
Belief returns and goes back to Medina like a snake…(Sahih Bukhari, 3.30.100)
Islam was initiated as something strange, and it would revert to its (old position) of being strange, and it would concentrate between the two mosques just as the serpent crawls back into its hole…(Sahih Muslim, 1.0270)
The Islamic faith will recede to Medina just as the serpent crawls into its hole…(Sahih Muslim, 1.0271, 0272)
Muslims will diminish in number and they will go back to where they started…(Sunaan Abu Dawud, 2.19.3029)
There will be much killing during the last days of the Muslims…(Sahih Bukhari, 9.88.183)
Getting the picture now? Remember, you heard it here first…..
Salah says
“Islam is a dying religion.”
Thank you Peter Buckley. Finally someone on this site sharing my realistic optimism.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/dying-islam-lislam-mourant.html
Jay Boo says
Yes, Islam is rotting from within.
I especially wonder about the educated people of Iran who had Islam imposed on their Persian culture.
Surely many Iranians must know that Islam is a farce and would like to dump it wholesale yet they are surrounded by a Sunni threat.
If they dump Islam what will keep Iran intact.
Do they long for something better while ‘holding the tiger (Islam) by the tail’?
Imagine just for a moment if they converted to Judaism and aligned with Israel, that would really shake things up.
gravenimage says
Peter Buckley wrote:
Iran will collapse., provided the West DOESN’T intervene.
It will become secular democracy. Will start to receive Western aid. Christianity and atheism growing throughout the area.
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Actually, Peter, Iran set the model of “modern” Islamization with its “Islamic Revolution” in 1979, which many of the countries of the “Arab Spring” have begun to follow in the past couple of years.
Christians represent less than 1% of the population in Iran; along with Zoroastrians, Jews, Mandeans, and Baha’i—Shia Muslims are around 90%, Sunnis around 9%.
There are no exact figures, but estimates show about half the Christian population leaving after Iran became a Muslim theocracy.
And after over thirty years, that Islamic theocracy has not mellowed, either in a tendency to secularism or a tolerance for Christianity or any other Infidel faith.
I wish I could share your optimism that Iran is poised to become a secular democracy—but unfortunately I cannot see any basis for this assertion.
Peter Buckley says
Simple. Look at the economy.It has been on the verge of collapse for some time:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3597/iran-rial-collpase
The mullahs’ worst nightmare has now just happened in Iraq.
Spending yet more money just to shore up Shia dominance in Iraq will push it over the edge. Do you think Iranians want their government to support ad infinitum the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon, when it has the worst drug-addiction problem in the world?
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21583717-why-so-many-young-iranians-are-hooked-hard-drugs-other-religion
I have no doubt the theocracy will collapse within 5 years, PROVIDED THE US REFUSES TO HELP THEM IN IRAQ.
gravenimage says
Peter, I certainly agree with you that Iran’s economy may well collapse—that would not surprise me.
But the idea that a collapse of the economy would *lead to democracy*—well, that seems, with respect, much less likely.
If the Mullahs ever lost control, I could see Iran descending into chaos like a Shi’ite Somalia, with rival Jihad groups jockeying for power.
But a democracy with full religious rights for Christians and other Infidels? It would be lovely, but seems much less plausible to me.
har bidoll says
islam will march & heads will roll till the western leaning countries unite or the petro-dollar/ or gold runs out. BDS gulf oil!!
AnneM says
We are seeing Islam in its last stages.
voegelinian says
Well, I guess we can all stop “watching Jihad” then…! Whew! That’s a relief!
gravenimage says
Anne, I’m afraid I don’t see how violent Jihadists seizing territory and setting up the core of a Caliphate is indicative of Islam being “in its last stages”—I wish I could.
AnneM says
For gravenimage, what I mean is that, with this group in a special way, if they try to attack Israel, even if it starts with kidnapping, that could be a first and last mistake for ISIS.
gravenimage says
Anne, I certainly can see intrepid Israel fighting back and prevailing.
But *ending Islam*? I don’t believe that they have the capacity—and this is *not* intended as an insult to that brave country.
citycat says
People go on about hating Jews, but nobody says why.
I been trying suss why this is but can’t. They are not as violent as some other religions. It must be an ego jealously thing, i guess. Seems quite pathetic, unless there’s something radically serious that i don’t know about.
Kepha says
citycat:
As some anonymous Christian once said:
How odd
Of God
To choose
The Jews.
But odder still
Are those who choose
The Jewish God
And hate the Jews.
citycat says
I sort of gather then that it is down to some old writing, and not a thing of practical reality like mass murder. There just too much hate in this world, hate destroys. Cheers.
Jay Boo says
citycat
Ulterior motives of some commenters
I suspect that some of the occasional comments about Jews are from trolls trying to cause division.
One recent commenter even attempts to use the word ‘confess’ as a segue to extrapolate anti-Catholic bait.
boakai ngombu says
” … without any mercy….”
what the Dominican wrote describes well the glory of the Allah god of Islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) and its slaves … who are doing their best to imitate the exemplar to mankind, Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lust). showing no mercy is the best they can do.
apparently the Muhammadans have rules of engagement suitable for savages
there is no majesty and glory in Islam
tpellow says
“Mosul Seized: Jihadis Loot $429m from City’s Central Bank to Make Isis World’s Richest Terror Force.”
http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/isis-steals-429-million-in-mosul-ib-times-cites-money-jihad-in-comparison-of-richest-terror-groups/
MuslimConvert says
ISIS cannot be a legitimate Muslim movement. True Muslims reject any kind of hints of idolatry. A true Muslim organization would never choose a name that is abbreviated to the name of a Egyptian goddess from the times of Jahiliyya.
John C. Barile says
Oh, well then, all they need is a cosmetic change of name, and to have a sheikh proclaim you takfir for your impudence in pointing out their Islamic inconsistency.
Jay Boo says
@MuslimConvert
“True Muslims ” are probably a bit embarrassed every time a new Muslim convert insists on washing his or her feet in a stinky public restroom and wishes to announce it to the whole world.
At least Muslims by birth have a little bit of shame and know how to be discrete when they chose to be.
eib says
Quote:
ISIS cannot be a legitimate Muslim movement.
end
MuslimConvert, if you told that to members of ISIS themselves, they would kill you. Quickly.
Perhaps the Egyptian goddess Isis still has power in the minds of these men. That’s a question we will never answer.
They have stated that their Islam is the only Islam.
And they have enforced it through the rule of violence and terror.
What answer can you give them?
How can you prevail?
Kepha says
Maybe they don’t even know who Isis was. I also understand they sometimes translate their name as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Jack Diamond says
Knowing the tastes of the mujahideen, they more likely named themselves after the porn actress Isis Taylor. A transliteration makes them not legitimate, not their vile barbarism or even takfirism? Interesting, your choice of objection. But perhaps the Egyptian goddess was really a prophetess of Islam, just her words got corrupted and changed from their right places?
An earlier incarnation of what was the Mujahideen Shura Council (what ISIL/ISIS was called after ‘al Qaeda in Iraq’ and before ISIL/ISIS) called itself the “Oath of the Scented Ones.” Perfect. A variation on “stink” is definitely more correct than ISIS for a true Muslim movement. The Smell of the Islamic Caliphate Killers (SICK) or some variation perhaps? The Sunni Odor of Death (SOD)– not to be confused with the Shia Odor of Death (SOD)? I’m sure you can do better…
If true Muslims reject any hints of idolatry we should discuss them putting Muhammad right up there with Allah.
gravenimage says
MuslimConvert wrote:
ISIS cannot be a legitimate Muslim movement. True Muslims reject any kind of hints of idolatry. A true Muslim organization would never choose a name that is abbreviated to the name of a Egyptian goddess from the times of Jahiliyya.
…………………………
Well, this is just grimly hilarious. Notice that MuslimConvert doesn’t consider anything about lining the streets of Mosul with the severed heads of their victims to be un-Islamic—just the idea that their acronym might sound like a pagan deity.
What a tool. For one thing, as noted, ISIS often goes by ISIL. Also, by his “reasoning”, MILF cannot be a “legitimate Muslim movement” either, since its acronym can read as a rather risqué appreciation of, ahem, more mature ladies—a concept that is un-Islamic in the extreme.
The idea that savage Jihad outfits vet their names lest any Infidels ‘get the wrong idea’ is about as weak an argument as we’ve seen from any Muslim apologist—and that’s saying a lot.
tpellow says
“Analysis: ISIS, allies reviving ‘Baghdad belts’ battle plan.”
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/06/analysis_isis_allies.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=analysis-isis-allies-reviving-baghdad-belts-battle-plan##ixzz34euXYHqT
Jay Boo says
Good morning Muslim world
It is time to wake up to reality and witness Islam’s nightmare.
Veil of Airahs (Iranian flag)
“In The Name Of Allah The Compassionate The Merciful”
Three colors unfurl with “Allahu Akhbar” woven each between.
Iran’s red scripted tulip on white unravels beneath Islamic green.
This flag’s red tulip is a painful reminder against all they pretend
yet, the regime rejects the message its symbol claims to defend.
Ayatollahs entice Islamic vanity and ritual to collide.
Worship on display only bows to the will of pride.
“Allahu Akhbar” Insults decency with all the contempt they conceal.
Insisting to ‘assist’ the Almighty is Islamic lack of faith revealed.
Ayatollahs aim one verse’s wrath at the peace of another
as if to “speak” for Allah while in their shadow of sharia.
Who do they think they are, to overlook such a blasphemous flaw?
Willful delusion assaults truth behind ruthless sharia law.
Ritual violence feigns an honorable intent
to snare justice into its web of blatant pretense.
Feel the last hope of honor suffocate inside Islam’s raised self-righteous clench
as regime religion surrounds the honor-killing pit with its pious stench.
The accused sinner is bound, and wrapped in burial white,
like a “GIFT” offered to Allah, yet each grip claims the price.
Satan’s sacrifice is lowered to elevate their pit’s veiled sin,
as if, honor might rise unaware of what they truly intend.
The first rock procured becomes seduced within a Quran’s deadly embrace.
Her final breath assured when both weapons are fondled with eager disgrace.
The first stone condemns, as remnants of truth remain silenced and bound.
A knowing hush submits freeing others to convict with hideous sounds.
Faith diseased, the tulip crafted from within sprouts a demonic weed
Haunting screams cry unheard in the vast emptiness of Islam’s vile creed.
Three colors unleashed, in a hellish pit, with praise to God defiled in between;
Another bloodied white shroud writhing beneath the veil of Islam’s soiled green.
The steady entropy of a simple truth untangles the ornate strands Islam’s lie.
The-Stoning-Soraya-M
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1320989/The-Stoning-Soraya-M-The-horrific-execution-scene-got-film-banned.html
Rita says
While his flock is getting slaughtered this Media-Whore of a pope is schmusing the very savages who are torturing, crucifying, raping, massacring the Christians.
He even handed over the Chair of St. Peter to a Imam who promptly prayed to allah for “victory over all infidels”.
But from the very beginning we saw what he was on about, his first media act being to snog the feet of a muslim woman:
http://littlenotesfromparis.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/pope-snogs-young-muslimas-feet.html
eib says
+1
45charlie says
Now you are seeing the catastrophic results of a failed Obama Administration.
Jay Boo says
Obama might offer assistance if it affects oil supply enough but he is not a Christian in any sense other than in name only.
Obama claims the sweetest sound is the (Muslim call to prayer) … which incidentally sounds exactly like an honor kill victim moaning in pain while being stoned to death.
Composite of Obama pro-Muslim quotes and bowing to Islam
Jay Boo says
Another daily nightmare begins with Islam.
Imagine what it must be like to wake up each morning wearing the shackle of Islam.
gravenimage says
Iraq: Christians flee Mosul by the thousands as ISIS rampages, destroys church and seizes monastery
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What other invading army would do this—and here I refer to everything from an army of liberation to one of conquest?
This is not their securing infrastructure or quelling pockets of resistance—instead, this is their going after the most vulnerable and least likely to fight back, just because of Islamic hatred of Christians.
And this genocidal hatred trumps any practical considerations.
More:
Together with the news that the monastery of Mar Behnam – dating back to the fourth century, one of the most important historical sites of Assyrian Christianity – is in the hands of militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant since yesterday, after taking control of Iraq’s second city.
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I have long feared that we were seeing the extinction of Assyrian Christianity in its homeland—but even I envisioned more of a grinding erosion of exodus than *this*.
More:
From the mosques you hear the cry: “Allah Akhbar, long live the Islamic state”.
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Did any of these Mosques resist—or even bemoan—the full, bloody imposition of Islamic law? In most cases, I imagine it was the latter.
On the radio this morning, there was a translation of interviews with refugees—no doubt Muslims—from Mosul who had decided to return.
The translator seemed a bit surprised to find that those who had fled didn’t actually fear or even have any problems with the invading Jihadists—they were just initially concerned that Iraq might bomb the city to dislodge the invaders.
Once they decided that this seemed unlikely, they decided to go back…
voegelinian says
Their goal is (adjectivally) fanatical; their goal is (content noun) purity. This by itself would not necessarily be problematic (let alone as catastrophic as it is), were these two dimensions of their goal not further inflected — the former through a militantly eschatological script; the latter through a Satanic ethos. These latter two inflections, in turn, dovetail together when illuminated by Satan’s ultimate goal (whose impossibility he cannot see through the hatred clouding his vision): the frustration and destruction of God’s Creation.
Jay P says
God does exist however, Mohammed was not his prophet. Christ and Christianity is what brought civilization to most of the West.
Sorry if my belief doesn’t make me bright in your eyes.
Champ says
Moohamhead wrote:
“Fuck off, you fuckwit and don’t report me—instead try to grow a pair and step up for a fist fight !”
This outrageous *creep* wants to fight a woman? …well I reported you jackass!!!!
EYESOPEN says
Champ, this troll was the same “P” that was so arrogant and abusive 2 months ago. Apparently It was banned and just decided to come back under yet another name.