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Islamic State bombs Assyrian, Armenian churches in Syria

Apr 29, 2015 2:53 pm By Robert Spencer

St Odisho Assyrian ChurchNot to worry. No “Islamophobia” was committed. “ISIS Bombs Assyrian, Armenian Churches in Syria,” AINA, April 29, 2015:

(AINA) — According to reports from Syria and also the Turkish press, ISIS has bombed two churches in Syria, the St. Odisho Assyrian Church in Tel Tal and the St. Rita Tilel Armenian Church in Aleppo. The churches were bombed yesterday.

Located on the Khabur river in the Hasaka province in Syria, Tel Tal is one of the 35 Assyrian villages that was attacked by ISIS on February 23. ISIS captured nearly 300 Assyrians in those attacks and subsequently released 23, all from the village of Tel Goran. The remaining Assyrians are still being held captive.

The entire Assyrian population of these villages, nearly 3,000, has left their homes and are expected never to return. Some have already emigrated to Lebanon. Most are living in Hasaka or Qamishli and are planning to leave Syria.

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Muslim persecution of Christians, Syria Tagged With: Aleppo, St. Odisho Assyrian Church, St. Rita Tilel Armenian Church, Tel Tal


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  1. cowboyjohn says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    The day will come when ISIS will pay for all its done. Defeat Jihad!

    • mortimer says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 3:37 pm

      They will pay with water-borne illnesses. The infrastructure is gone. There is no more clean water.

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    Religiously-based hatred? Hate speech? More than hate speech? Against Christians? So what?

    The Leftarded cultural Marxists are not concerned if European civilization is threatened.

    They are encouraging their pets, the ‘noble savages’ to burn down European civilization.

    What will the Leftards do when their ‘pets’ turn on them and tear them to bits?

  3. Champ says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 3:48 pm

    Wow where is the “religion of peace” when you need it? And where’s the tolerance? …the misnomers continue!

  4. Aletheanoesis says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 3:52 pm

    This has nothing to do with Marxism, Marx criticized all kind of religion as drug for the people mind. This ideology not to criticize islam is called culturelativism. Another Name for culturerelativism is multiculturalism. All critics of islam are called Islamophobe, Fascist or Racist. They are full denying the very dark and backwarded parts of islam

    • pumbar says

      Apr 30, 2015 at 2:15 am

      Go and Google, “The Frankfurt School”. It is cultural Marxism.

  5. Champ says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 4:18 pm

    And this verse from the Bible always comes to mind when I read about mohammedans destroying churches …

    “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” — 1 Corinthians 1:18

    Oh, and these verses are spot on, too:

    John 15:18-25New International Version (NIV)

    The World Hates the Disciples

    “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’”

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Indeed, they hate Jesus, and Christians, too and “without reason”.

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 4:37 pm

    Christianity was already well into the process of self-disappearance with rampant secularism replaced by the Church of Globo-Socialism, a nasty trend that has been mightily reinforced by low birth rates in developed Western nations.

    The destruction of Coptic and Assyrian churches is a kind of celebration held by the Mujahidin to fete the occasion, although they’re speeding the process with mass murder of Christians here and there.

    • Kepjha says

      Apr 30, 2015 at 5:05 am

      Decades ago, the Jewish writer Saul Bellow once observed that the West seems to be eager to see the last of its Christianity. The O years are a symptom of the disease he was talking about.

  7. gravenimage says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 5:12 pm

    Islamic State bombs Assyrian, Armenian churches in Syria
    ………………………

    And all the Christians have fled for their lives or been taken captive—likely to be murdered or enslaved. The Islamic State’s campaign to eradicate Christianity from the Caliphate continues.

    And it didn’t even start with them—pious Muslims in Iraq had been driving out and murdering Christians even before the brutal ISIS takeover.

    And St. Rita Tilel Armenian Church in Aleppo was attacked by mortars back in January by the Jihad group Harakat ‘Ahrar Al-Sham (Liberators of the Levant Movement). These specific Jihadists had apparently targeted this cathedral previously.

    http://www.gagrule.net/turkey-supported-jabhat-al-islamiyya-militants-destroy-armenian-cathedral-syrias-aleppo/

    There is a picture of the lovely cathedral in the story above before its destruction.

    God, I hate Islam.

    • Kepjha says

      Apr 30, 2015 at 5:24 am

      @Freedom Lover:

      Let’s just say that while most of us here value Constitutional liberties, derive at least our ethics from Christianity or Judaism (and some of us identify with one of those religions) and would certainly value Western civilization, not all of us are Nordic, or even “white”. You describe your red-haired, green-eyed, porcelain-skinned ideal (go ahead: marry someone of the opposite sex who fits that description if you haven’t done so already)–which fits to a t an Albano-Egyptian mullah in my community.

      As for artificial and in-vitro fertilization, I, for one, think there’s no substitute for a pro-birth, pro-monogamous, heterosexual family policy. As for “race”, though, I hold to a religion which says there’s neither Jew nor Greek in Jesus Christ, work alongside a lot of Black and Hispanic people, and got my better half from the Far East. I’ve got nothing against white people, and am mostly white myself. But I’m not for writing racial identities into law, which I see as a great mischief.

      As for Putin, I hope his conversion (there’s an Orthodox church in Moscow, I understand, that caters to KGB people these days) is sincere and genuine, I cannot help but note his continuing alliances with Iran and Communist China, two major persecutors of Christians (even if the latter is experiencing a revival at the grass-roots level). Perhaps in the case of the latter, he is hoping that other ex-Communists might come down with a gentler bump than happened to Russia. But I frankly don’t know for sure. Granted, Putin’s banning of homosexual adoptions from abroad and his playing rough with jihadists inside Russia strike me as eminently sane. However, I cannot see the man as a likely defender of Constitutional liberties.

  8. Helena' says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 5:17 pm

    I only wonder how much Turkey paid the men behind the masks hence referred to as “ISIS” to bomb Assyrian and Armenian churches in Syria, as the two nations gained widespread international audience just last week charging Turkey with genocide against 750,000 and 1,500,000 members of their nations, respectively in 1915, while demanding recognition.

  9. spac says

    May 1, 2015 at 4:24 am

    The Islamic nature can understand from the recollection of this lady

    Khanum Palootzian 1
    Born 1898
    Village of Darman, Vilayet of Erzerum, Turkey
    It was in May 1915 that the Turkish Government uprooted
    us from Darman2
    and all our villages and tried to destroy
    us all. Our houses, farms, sheep, cows, fuel, horses,
    donkeys, chickens, our furniture, beds, foods, and all
    belongings were collected and forcefully confiscated.
    They didn’t give even one piastre as payment for all they
    took. My step-father, when they were going to kill him,
    pleaded that they let him pray before dying. As he knelt
    and prayed, they took a sword and cut off his head. They
    marched us into the mountains, fields and gorges to die of
    hunger. All the Armenian men and boys were killed with
    axes and swords. And all the women and girls were killed
    through thirst, hunger and an even worse fate that I don’t wish to say. Pregnant women were
    eviscerated, their stomachs cut open with swords and their babies ripped out, thrown against the
    rocks. These I saw with my own eyes.
    In the summer heat, we were driven for days and weeks, without food and water, with our swollen
    bare feet bleeding from cuts. When we saw water, we ran to drink only to be beaten back by gendarmes
    on horseback who carried large wooden cudgels. We were beaten fiercely for just trying to drink water. We
    were led through the mountains for two months. On the way, many women couldn’t take it and, holding
    their babies in their arms, simply threw themselves from cliffs into the Tigris River. The Turk gendarmes
    singled out the prettier girls and women and took them for themselves. Many, myself included, smeared
    mud on our faces so as not to appear attractive. I even closed one eye so as to appear blind, and limped.
    With this and other tricks I managed to escape being taken.
    My entire family, along mountains, gorges, and fields, my mother, father, sisters, and brother who was
    not quite ten years old, were left as unburied corpses, left as food for wild dogs. Darman consisted of a
    group of seven villages. All were uprooted – that’s several thousand people. By the time we reached
    Harput, weeks later, some 45 miles away, there remained only a few hundred. We knew they were leading
    us to die, we thought probably to dump us at sea, for none of us were allowed to leave the group nor
    allowed to drink water or even look for food. If they saw anyone leaving the group the gendarmes
    immediately killed them.

    1
    From a tape recorded interview in 1972. Danish missionary Karen Peterson, in a March 1920 letter, describes how Khanum came to
    the orphanage at Mezreh, Harput: “Khanun has experienced very hard trials. With her family, including 14 persons, she were forced to
    leave their house and home in one day’s time. After two months wandering in the mountains she succeeded in escaping and reached the
    fields outside Mezreh. Pregnant and with one year old child strapped to her back she found our orphanage. All that remained of her family
    was now beside her, On February 3, 1916, she gave birth to a girl which she named Diranouhi after her husband Diran, who was killed.
    Khanum’s first child never recovered after the hardships she had been through and diedwithin a few months.”
    2
    Darman, also known as Temran, is 45 miles north of Harput, 40 miles south of Erzerum, and 30 miles south of Erzingan. Today it is called
    Baglarpinari. Its coordinates are: “39°15’00″”N” (Long), and “40°24’00″”E” (Lat.). In 1915 it was a large village of 200-400 families, located
    in the district of Kighi, province of Erzerum. See “Armenia, A Historical Atlas” by Robert Hewsen, 2001, Univ. of Chicago Press.
    E

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