There are 100,000 displaced Christians who have fled with nothing but their clothes, some of them on foot, to reach the Kurdistan region.” Obama is swooping to the rescue, however: a few cosmetic airstrikes should fix this problem in a jiffy.
“Iraqi militants remove crosses from churches, burn manuscripts: patriarch,” AFP, August 7, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
KIRKUK: Militants who took over large areas of northern Iraq on Thursday have forced 100,000 Christians to flee and have occupied churches, removing crosses and destroying manuscripts, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako said.
“There are 100,000 displaced Christians who have fled with nothing but their clothes, some of them on foot, to reach the Kurdistan region,” he told AFP.
“This is a humanitarian disaster. The churches are occupied, their crosses were taken down,” said Sako, the leader of Iraq’s largest Christian denomination, which is aligned with the Roman Catholic Church. He added that up to 1,500 manuscripts were burnt.
The Islamic State (IS) group, which swept across much of Iraq’s Sunni heartland two months ago, attacked several towns and villages east of its main hub of Mosul, the country’s second city.
Among them was Qaraqosh, Iraq’s largest Christian town with a population of around 50,000, and several surrounding areas that were previously controlled by the Kurdish peshmerga force.
Fleeing residents reached by phone as they tried to enter the neighbouring autonomous region of Kurdistan confirmed the militant takeover.
AFP could not immediately verify the current status of those towns, which witnesses said have been completely emptied of their usual population.
“Daash (IS) militants last night attacked most villages in the Nineveh plains, firing mortar rounds and seizing some of them,” Sako said, speaking from his base in Kirkuk.
“The government is unable to defend our people, as is the Kurdistan government. They need to work together, receive international support and modern military equipment.”
“Today, we appeal with lots of pain and sadness, to all people of good will, the UN Security Council, European Union and relief organisations, to help those people who are facing mortal danger,” Sako said.
“I hope it is not too late to avoid a genocide,” he added.
Barook says
Where is the Vatican? Where is the Pope? Where is the Vatican army – the Crusaders? If this happened back in the old day… the Vatican would have sent in an army to defeat the muslims. The entire civilized world have become WIMPS if you ask me.
John C. Barile says
Mr. Obama dithers and proposes ineffectual half-measures. This man consistently confirms my lack of faith in him. That must be because he’s hollow at the core, lacking faith and failing to keep faith in his commitments toward others.
John C. Barile says
I’m sorry; I wasn’t directly responding to your comment, barook.
In days gone by, the Pope could sponsor a small expeditionary force from his own domains, and hope to count on Christian kings and princes to supply other forces. Christendom isn’t what is was in the 12th Century or the 16th Century.
Richie says
The task may be left to Christian citizens in the west to fight back. Not if but when Muslims try and decapitate people by the hundreds in the streets of Denmark and England, Christians will fight and will drive out the Muslim killers
Jerry says
Isn’t Islam a religion of peace according to the clueless pope corn clergy?
Wake up: Even “Moderate Islam” is genocidal.
Where are the protest marches and demonstrations in Eurabia
and the diminished and divided “United Kingdom”.
But at least we have a “Moderate Islam” masquerading as a Christian
in the Whitewash House.
And a Carry Pigeon – or is it spelt Kerry?
Remember: Kerry has an interesting meaning in Hebrew –
It means the soiling of your night-cloths and or bedding while
having a “Wet Dream”.
Keep on dreaming the Obama Nation.
TH says
In previous centuries the Vatican had its own state and it own military forces. In fact a Papal fleet took part in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, and in the siege of Vienna in 1683, the Pope did make big diplomatic efforts at forming a coalition which eventually did defeat the Turks. Since 1870 there is no more Papal state. All the Pope can do these days is to appeal to the moral conscience. Obama doesn’t have much of that, much less the jihadis.
zulu says
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eib says
Alas, our president is not a man of good will.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace to men of good will.
We must continually distinguish between the person of good will and against the person of evil will.
St. Benedict wrote: “Do not give a hollow greeting of peace.”
ken moir says
There will be a big run on virgins in paradise as the heroic I.S.IS jihadists engage with Uncle Sam, my advice is get in quick as you don’t want the dregs, some might look like Bella Emberg
Charli Main says
No need for them to worry. There will be more than enough goat herds and plenty of good looking camels for them to enjoy.
Burt says
Now that a ‘minority’ faith that is not Christian (or Jewish) is being persecuted by the Islamists, Obama and the BBC are suddenly interested.
Strange that…
gravenimage says
Islamic State jihadists remove crosses from churches, burn manuscripts
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And why is this? Because they plan to turn the desecrated churches *into mosques*.
Islam has a long and ugly history of seizing churches. Here’s the lovely gothic St. Nicolas Cathedral in Cyprus, which is now the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque:
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Note that it has had its graceful bell tower sheared off, and has a minaret awkwardly grafted on.
This has happened *many times* throughout Muslim history.
The very worst example was Hagia Sofia, which for a thousand years before the erection of St. Peter’s in Rome was Christendom’s greatest cathedral.
When the Muslim hordes breached Constantinople’s defenses and conquered her in 1453, huge numbers of vulnerable civilians had gathered in the cathedral to pray. The Mohammedan thugs slaughtered and raped priests, nuns, women, children, and old people.
They then started tearing the blood-soaked cathedral apart, until the Pasha stopped them—he realized that turning the desecrated church into a mosque would be the greater symbol of Muslim supremacy.
More:
“I hope it is not too late to avoid a genocide,” he added.
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I believe the genocide has already begun…
Atticus says
These barbarians do not only destroy churches, they do the same thing to mosques, tombs, archeological artifacts from Babylonia, things that belong to the heritage of the mankind.
Nevertheless, this seams so unimportant if you look at the several genocides taking place there simultaneously.
Cindy says
These people are trying wipe out GOD and it cannot be done!!! Jesus Christ is the only One True God. Every other thing or person that people say are god are false gods. They have no power, only God has power. People that go against Israel should know that. They must see the miracles God is doing for them. One day everyone will see. Because oneday every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord!!!!!! That means every person who believed in budda will confess Christ as God and King of the universe. Ane every person who believes in allah will confess Christ is God and King!!!!! Any one other than Christ will fall to the wayside. Onlt Christ will last and live forever. Praise God He has made a way for me to go live with Him in heaven.
Johnny Canuck says
The time has come to fight back. Words can be powerful weapons but at some point the enemy–Islam–must be confronted with lethal force.