“Friday at noon was the deadline for Christian families to meet ISIS’s demands: Convert to Islam, pay an anachronistic Islamic tax for non-Muslims known as jizya, leave Mosul, or be killed. But the day before the final exodus, Christians were informed jizya was no longer an option. The order came to convert, leave, or die.”
This “anachronistic Islamic tax” is actually in the Qur’an, which no Muslim would describe as anachronistic: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29).
“ISIS Torches 1800-Year-Old Mosul Church After Expelling Christians,” by Adam Chandler, The Wire, July 22, 2014 (thanks to Darcy):
ISIS, which recently rebranded as the Islamic State, has solidified its control over Iraq’s second-largest city by imposing Sharia law and expelling Christians who won’t convert to Islam. The end of last month marked the first time a mass wasn’t held in the city in more than 1600 years.
Then, matters got worse. From the Daily Beast:
Friday at noon was the deadline for Christian families to meet ISIS’s demands: Convert to Islam, pay an anachronistic Islamic tax for non-Muslims known as jizya, leave Mosul, or be killed. But the day before the final exodus, Christians were informed jizya was no longer an option. The order came to convert, leave, or die.
On the way out of town last week, the final 1500 families of Mosul’s Christian population were reportedly robbed at ISIS checkpoints. And following Friday’s deadline, ISIS reportedly set fire to a 1800-year-old church.
#ISIS burns 1,800-year-old church in #Mosul http://t.co/TA2hBFMyah pic.twitter.com/SK0F6jpQpX
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 20, 2014
Last month, ISIS shocked much of the world by swiftly capturing Mosul in an offensive that allowed the group to take control of major parts of northern and western Iraq. As Reuters reported, the group has managed to shore up its control over communities with a combination of force and fear. After meeting armed resistance in the town of al-Alam for nearly two weeks, here’s what the group did:
They kidnapped 30 local families and rang up the town’s most influential citizens with a simple message about the hostages: “You know their destiny if you don’t let us take over the town.”
Weeks later, according to the report, only a few gunman patrol the town at night “so comfortable is the Islamic State in its control through fear.” Since then, with Baghdad as the prize in mind, the group has grown in size from 3,000 by earlier estimates to 20,000 as last month’s offensive bolstered their standing.
duh_swami says
These savages are worse than primitive, they are evil…
Richie says
Muslims will continue with this barbarity until people stand up to them and fight back
Richie says
It would be nice if someone destroys that pagan black stone in Mecca
Wellington says
I would welcome it. Overdue actually.
Gail Griffin says
Actually destroying the black stone would be doing IS job. Let them get to Mecca
I wonder what will happen if they get to Egypt. Will countries unite to finally crush them.
Jay Boo says
Stoned damaged
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Black_Stone_of_Mecca#Damage
voegelinian says
Fighting and defeating ISIS is certainly a necessity for the free world, but to think it’s anything more than a temporary burp along the way of the global revival of Islam, would be a serious miscalculation. The OIC (the modern incarnation of the Dar-al-Islam) which recently “condemned” ISIS is ultimately the world’s problem with Islam, not merely the “extremists” du jour that keep popping up as long as Mohammedans have the ability to manifest their ideological pneumopathology.
Mirren10 says
Yep. Wouldn’t bother me at all.
However, I seriously question whether it would make the slightest dent in mohammedan hubris.
They would no doubt claim it was the perfidious ‘Jooos’ who dunnit, and everlastingly bask in the outrage of leftards International, who would insist this was yet another manifestation of ‘islamophobia’.
Jay Boo says
Someone apparently already attempted to destroy the stone many years ago but it was cemented back together again in the same manner as Muhammad cemented his Islamic lies back together again satanic verse cement excuses when he got caught worshiping jinn spirit religion.
The stone is set into a strange setting that could be described as resembling something Georgia O’Keeffe might have designed or possibly inspired by the pig prophet himself.
Destroying the stone might have some symbolic value but Muslims would claim that the stone was not really destroyed but was carried away on a flying horse.
Wellington says
I remember reading years ago, Jay Boo, that Muslims boasted the Kaaba couldn’t be destroyed by non-Muslims, not even by a nuclear blast, because Allah would protect it. Do you or anyone else reading this know anything about this? If true, it presents a grand opportunity to show just how fictional Allah really is.
Richie says
or at least and destroy and bulldoze that Muslim abomination squatting on the Temple Mount
Tradewinds says
We are actually seeing Islam operate before our very eyes. The Mahoundians doing exactly what the Koran tells them to do.
The German-American scholar Joseph Schacht, in his monumental academic tome ‘An Introduction to Islamic Law’:
“The basis of the Islamic attitude towards unbelievers is the law of war; they must be either converted, or subjugated, or killed”.
And that’s happening right before our eyes.
Art says
And where is the world outrage? The same people who condemn Israel for defending itself are conspicuously quiet here. This speaks volumes of their hypocrisy.
Richie says
I fear when the people finally speak out, it will be too late
Its bizzare, the leftist media is terrified about offending Muslims, but has no problem with out in the open Jew hatred and genocide of Christians
Uncle Vladdi says
It’s because they are masochists, always seeking to “control” their worst fears BY inflicting them first. They fear muslims, not the Judeo-Christians.
Joseph says
There’s a difference btw. kicking people out of their homes and slaughtering hundreds of civilians while bombing their homes, schools, and hospitals. What ISIS is doing is outrageous but, in the case of expelling these Christians, nothing like Israel’s current war crimes.
Therefore, don’t expect the same outrage.
Tradewinds says
Huh? Israel doesn’t have any war crimes. It’s the Muslims who have the war crimes. Oh, and Islam is the slaughter ideology, btw.
Jovial Joe says
Joseph: go read the JW post on the little girl in Afghanistan, then come back to us with your sob story about ‘Palestine’.
Mirren10 says
You are seriously intellectually challenged. That is, in non PC speak, you are a total idiot.
Read the articles on how Hamas deliberately uses women and children as human shields. And this isn’ t*me* saying it, but Hamas. Read the article about how Hamas has **ordered** the ‘press’ to describe all casualties as **civilian** casualties.
Then come back and tell us about Israeli ‘war crimes’.
You make the mistake of thinking that everyone is as stupid as you are.
Wellington says
On point reply as usual, Mirren. So many times when I read a post of yours I think to myself you’ve covered it all and another reply is unnecessary.
Uncle Vladdi says
Currently ISIS takes Shia muslims out of their homes and beheads them.
The only reason these “palestinians” can even continie to exist at all in Gaza (seeing as how its always been empty of life since Paul wrote of it in the New Testament) is because the UN gives them a full HALF of their global refugee budget (!) and Israel gives them free water, electricity, food, and schooling.
These are displaced Egyptian ARABS, not the historical Philistines (who, BTW, lived hundreds of miles North in PHILISTIA, near Antioch, and were all Greeks). The Hebrew word “Plishtim” from which “palestinian” derives, means “INVADERS.”
So for dupes like you to insist they have any historic right to an ancestral homeland in the area is ludicruous nonsense.
The place formerly known as the Land of Israel in Canaan, aka “ZION,” was deliberately re-named as Syria PALASTINA by the Romans who disperced the Jews, in honour of their Greco-Roman battle goddess, PALAS Athena.
And ever since then, the only occupants have been JEWS.
Silvia says
I’m Jewish and this hurts me. To see these demons from hell destroying civilization, destroying history and culture. This church can never be replaced and fixed. It’s exactly what they did with the Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
But when the world is silent when they burn Christians all over the middle east, why should they care about buildings even if they are a world heritage.
What terrible times we live in.
xman says
what’s wrong with destroying buddhas statues?!! or perhaps u like idol-worshiping?! U think we should protect these buddhas statues while people worship these statues?! Anyone who believes in God will do the same thing with idols…
Himalayan Pony says
xman – I too want to you tell you that you can never really convert anyone to any religion by breaking artefacts, or temples that they hold dear. You will only end up making them hate you, if that’s what you want. Anyone who really believes in God (in Jesus) will not do this. Only out of love you can touch a person’s heart.
islamisdeath says
It’s about history you idiot. Of course being a minion of satan that is outside your understanding. All you understand is killing, death, torture, rape and every other evil your lord satan commands.
duh_swami says
Xman, is a convert from the US. His understanding of Islam is limited. How about Mahoundians destroying their own property instead of the property of others? If you are opposed to idol worship, then drop your reverence for Mahound, before destroying the property of others, to avoid hypocrisy. You don’t want Allah to think you are a hypocrite, do you?
bernie says
The vast majority of Buddhists do not worship statues of Buddha. The statues simply serve to remind people of him, just like there are statues of Abe Lincoln in America, for example.
The ISIS terrorists are making an idol out of violent jihad and self-worship.
MacUalraig says
Indeed, the picture of the Buddha in repose… it’s reflecting on that peace… going into the void.
It’s not worship.
MacUalraig says
Welcome to JihadWatch.
Post often, I enjoy the responses.
Riche says
xman, you must applaud the long history of Muslims oppressing Hindus and destroying Hindu shrines and Hindu statues
Uncle Vladdi says
I can’t believe they let muslims like you post on this site.
And I see you’re still using the same handle after all these years, too.
Is “XMAN” really a subconscious admission that, as a muslim, you’re no longer entitled to pretend to membership in humanity, tobe allowed to call your self a real human being?
😉
Kepha says
They’re doing to the Christians what they did to the Jews earlier. A lot of people forget that a slight majority of Israeli Jews descends from people who made Aliyah from Islamic countries rather than from Europe or the Americas.
thoughtwrite says
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.. In Christianity Christ comes to take his church home. Everything is much worse after that happens.
Judi says
Silvia – indeed we do and I fear much, much worse is to come
Uncle Vladdi says
Yes – unrepentant confirmed criminals should be obliterated.
Arjay says
Once again Islam has destroyed or taken over another faith’s House of Worship
At 1400 years- Islam is CENTURIES YOUNGER than this ancient church. Yet this is typical Islamic behavior. As the Islamist “Jihad” (and it DOES NOT mean “getting fit at the gym” or making buddies with the Jewish neighbor across the hall)… spread around the world- this type of thing repeated itself again and again.
Eastern Orthodox Christian Cathedrals, Roman Catholic Convents, Buddhist Monasteries and Shrines, Hindu Temples, Jewish Synagogues, Protestant Churches, Animist-Pagan Sacred Sites, and more and more and more… are all either destroyed OR converted into Mosques.
I am surprised this church wasn’t turned into a “Victory Mosque.” It is a regular practice for a place which has now been over-run or invaded by muslims or when the muslim population reaches a majority in certain areas…. the non-muslim houses of worship are converted into mosques.
This also happens at sites of military superiority where an Islamic “victory” has taken place.
PEOPLE do not be “sheeple.” This is why it was so RABIDLY IMPORTANT for the Muslims to build their Mosque at or as close as possible to 9/11 Ground Zero site in New York City.
Has anyone noticed the following (WHICH HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR CENTURIES) in just the last few months around the world?
In Nigeria… Christian Protestant and Catholic churches are burned to the ground. In Myanmar and Thailand… Buddhist Temples are vandalized and victims of arson. In Pakistan and Bangladesh… Hindu Temples are sacked and left in ruins. In Japan… an ancient and historic Buddhist Shrine is vandalized and parts destroyed beyond repair. Throughout Europe… Jewish Synagogues are being vandalized and defaced.
Along with the destruction of these Houses of Worship… recently in the news was the deaths that usually goes along with them.
Many of those Nigerian Christian Churches burned down still had their congregations alive inside when they were torched. Syrian Catholic Nuns kidnapped from their besieged convent and church. Hindu worshippers beaten and several killed and then forced to watch their Temples come down. The French Jewish children dragged away from their School/Synagogue complex and shot in the head at point blank range.
In Western China, atheists, Christians and followers of Confucius are stabbed to death on train stations as they go about their daily routines. Hey, and though NOT a house of worship… the scores of dead at the Kenyan shopping mall- people of all races and different faiths were held captive and tortured and murdered. The Muslim Terrorists set free the Muslim shoppers. If someone could not answer questions about Islam or quote the Koran… they were killed. Just how the North African Oil Refineries taken over by Islamists. The muslims were let go… the non muslims executed.
And so it goes and has gone for 1400 years… Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Jainists, Hindus and countless others. Even atheists are targeted and they range from an African radio DJ shot in the head, atheists arrested for posting “secular” ideas on social media in Arab Muslim states, other atheists who don’t “support Allah” end up being fired, beaten, imprisoned and too many times murdered all over the Islamic world.
Oh, and this is not “Islamophia.” In this present day- it is Islamists who have this WORLD WIDE war against other religions and even against atheists and agnostics. The slaughter and butchery is being DONE BY ISLAM.
Who is NOT doing it? Well, it is not being done by Sikhs, Methodists, Evangelical Christians, Wiccans, Lutherans, Reform Jews, Agnostics, Confucius scholars, Roman Catholics, Neo Pagans, Australian Aboriginal Believers in the “Dream Time”, Maronite Catholics, Greek Orthodox Christians, Dutch Reformed, Metropolitan Community Church LGBT members, Presbyterians, Members of the Church of Scotland, Hindus, Ethical Society chapter members, Mormons, Conservative Jews, Russian Orthodox, Togo snake worshippers, half-Jews from Boston suburbs, Quakers, Southern Baptists, Quarter-Jews with Anglican fathers who live in London, Alaskan and Yukon Natives who have traditional spiritual beliefs, women centered eco-feminist spiritual circle followers, Unitarians, Orthodox Jews, 1/2 Catholic-1/2 Episcopalian Sunday School teachers, Scientologists, Roman Catholic nuns, Buddhist nuns, Serbian Orthodox nuns, yoga instructors and little African girls “infidels” who say their prayers at night.
ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION IT IS A POLTICAL AND CULTURAL “DEATH” CULT THAT IS POSING AS A RELIGION FOR 1400 YEARS. This is why sites like Jihad Watch are so important. Especially in situations like in France where the shameful government has caved in to Islamists and speaks of non existent atrocities.
Support civilization and reject Islam.
Tradewinds says
I guess this is another “man-caused disaster” as our current president described 9/11.
the vilest of creatures says
And yet are so-called leaders claim “this has NOTHING to do with Islam”
and
“The future must NOT belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
Beagle says
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/07/22/Turkish-soldiers-killed-in-clash-near-Syria-border.html
First Saudi Arabia sent troops to their border with the nascent IS and now a border clash with Turkey. If the IS is truly threatened by “being surrounded,” as the learned analyst claimed, those two nations are critical to the calculation.
Interesting times.
Charles R.L. Power says
Hey, they set it on fire only after they threw out the Christians. By Muslim standards, I’d say this is progress.
Charli Main says
Muslims doing what Muslims are brain washed to do from around 3 years up.
The brain dead political elite of Europe and elsewhere just don´t get that destroying the holy places of other religions is fundamental Islam,
but then, when you have your head stuck up your arse, you cant see anything else, can you ???
Always On Watch says
This is such a travesty that I have no words!
MacUalraig says
I agree.
And in case no one has told you in awhile, your work over the years is greatly appreciated.
When I was in the military I listened to your program on the internet every chance I got, even when I was deployed.
Always On Watch. Always vigilant. Never quit and never retreat.
I would stand a watch with you anytime and anywhere.
Always On Watch says
MacUalraig,
I cannot begin to express my gratitude to you for affirming what I’ve been doing and saying all these years!
I see that you can be counted on as a friend in this battle.
MacUalraig says
We’ve talked on the net before, years ago.
I mean it. Your radio show was a great source of info, and I understand you’d someone close to you not doing well for some time. That added an extra layer of respect for your efforts.
Like Spencer’s, your voice was important for people who were looking for an independent & grassroots voice and inspiration during those years.
That your still here, a voice on the forums. It is inspiring.
VR/ Roderick MacUalraig
Always On Watch says
MacUalraig,
My husband had a sizable brain hemorrhage (thalamus) on September 15, 2009. He is, as a result, badly physically disabled (hospital bed in the living room, bedside potty, etc.), and I am his caregiver, a role which is my duty and my joy as a wife of 42 years. I nearly stopped any web activity for several months because of the overload.
But, yes, I’m still here. I read these anti-jhad sites on a regular basis, but do not often comment because of time restraints. I also still do the weekly radio show almost every week. I blog at my site (not always about Islam, but something about Islamification almost every week) and at a few other team sites, where I blog about the threat of Islam on a regular basis.
On a regular basis, I show Fitna to the homeschool classes that I teach. I lose some clients, but so be it. I know what I know! To be silent is to be complicit in the destruction of Western civilization.
I am certainly not in Mr. Spencer’s league. But I have not shut up — nor will I as long as I have the ability to keep sounding the alarm. I’m in for the long haul!
Thank you again. The duty which I have undertaken is often so thankless.
MacUalraig says
Yes, I’m impressed with myself that I remember this.
Your effort is not thankless, it’s exponential: one now, thousands of vicious freedom minded fighters in the future.
You just can’t see it now. But IT IS so.
Take good care, and don’t forget me.
Always On Watch says
I promise you that I won’t forget you! You brightened my day.
Mirren10 says
Always on Watch, I’m so sorry to hear about your poor husband.
I didn’t know about your blog, but I shall visit regularly, from now on.
Carry on keeping your chin up, lass, and much kudos to you !
Always On Watch says
Mirren10,
Thank you.
We’re carrying on the best that we can.
Looking forward to your visits to my little blog.
Mary_Gonzales says
For you to know..
– When they are 0-10 %, they will follow all the rule you made, even eat your dish, praised your kind, praised your race, sometimes try the pork. You would think that they are really friendly, there is no wrong with…You even defend them. Maybe this is happening in US.
– When they are 10-20 %, sometimes they will follow, but sometimes they will be not, “a praying time alibi”. You think that they are still your pal, but actually not. Sometimes they still eat your dish, drink your water, using your food tools, but this is just to make sure they don’t lose your trust.
– When they are 20-30 %, they will talk each other about how they feel around the infidels. But not in rude way. rarely to get in touch with you, and no more ask for your dish. They have more time for their own activity. The food in your house suddenly haram (forbidden by rule of koran).
– When they are 30-40 %, sometimes you seat together, talking this and that, but they will avoid to talk to you suddenly when they meet their mate, and they start talking as you are not there, ignored. They will avoid the whole to see you, and no more follow the rule of yours, as your rule is human made rule and of course it is wrong to do.
– When they are 40-50 %, they will start the new rule for you. They will ignore completely, as you are infidel, no more dogs around, neither pork. No longer ring your church bell, they rule your clothes, rule the food, rule the street, the hatred become stronger and stronger. they will try to seduce your friend, your children, your woman, and propose the law of god, but you can deny, still. Sometimes your friend, or your woman, your daughter, raped maybe killed, but it’s really late to act. Even the human rights still stands with them. Even the UN will blame you for let your woman raped. For you to know, they rape for hoping the woman will be convert by marriage. They are right, and you are wrong. That’s the new law.
– When they are 50-60%. Sometimes killing will be happen, beheading or something like that. They will push the sharia rule in any kind of matter. The 5 times prayer over the mega phone in all the time, all the place. No more leader but them. More difficult to have a religion building. All the foods must halal branded. The bank starting sharia. The school starting sharia. And you must beware of your religion activity. The suicide bomber is watching. They will start speech that the killing of infidels is wrote by the book, and must be done. – — They will hate Israel and this is occur adult and toddlers. Many will shout kill, kill, behead. The infidels start to afraid, but its too late to act.
– When they are 60-70 %, something like Syria will happen. Maybe like Gaza today.
But many infidels support the Arab Palestine, still.
– When they are 70-80 %, something like Iraq will happen, the law of god must be apply, and then they get the 100 %.
But….
The problem start when they got the 100 %. Since the achievement of the 100 %, the heaven still not coming.
– There are no more infidels means no more people to behead, kidnap, crucified, etc, they will fight each other for who is right and who is wrong by the book, killing each other for the highest position.
– No more jihad for the infidels were no longer exist.
– Many groups will stand for their own truth. Self-righteous.
– They will start speech that alcohol is haram, but they drink it in a nook.
– They will cover all the woman body, but no panties inside, and this will make them easier to have sex without releasing the clothes.
– Criticize means die. Speak means jail.
– No more woman rights.
– The leader will be boring to be too rich, but the people will be die for too poor.
– The leader is the rule. And who ever deny, will die. They even want to control the whole world.
– After that, the new insurrection comes. The leader will be fall for their greedy, many will die, the infidels come, war and win, and start to lead again. Just like after the Ottoman period.
The only solution, separate muslims with all the infidels. Solid border 24 hours between them, put a hard check point. The only reason to get pass the border is working, after that, everybody must go back to their place. I am ‘the infidel’, and it just my dream.
(sorry for my bad grammars, am not good in this language )
MacUalraig says
Gracias. Te amo Amiga.
You’re with us.
Speggindoggle says
Thank you. It was easy to understand you. God bless you.
Richie says
I’m surprised the Muslims haven’t destroyed the Haiga Sophia in Muslim occupied Constantinople- given the importance that church has in the history of Christianity. It was bad enough Muslims defiled it for centuries by using it as a demonic mosque where Muslims could pray to their moon god (Satan)
Carlos Danger says
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