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Islamic State demolishes Christian church in Syria

May 29, 2015 9:32 am By Raymond Ibrahim

The Assyrian Network for Human Rights recently published the following photograph saying they are the demolished remains of the Church of Saint Mar Beesho‘a in Tel Shamiran, an Assyrian Christian village located in the countryside of the northern city of Hasakah—which was earlier occupied and ransacked by the Islamic State.

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  1. Richie says

    May 29, 2015 at 10:26 am

    How long before Muslims start targeting Christian churches or Jewish synagogues for destruction in Europe and the US? Leftists refuse to acknowledge the Muslim persecution of Christians because it goes against the narrative of Muslim victimhood.

    • Elisha says

      May 29, 2015 at 10:45 am

      Wait ’til they start going after the leftists. Presumably this will follow the slaughter of the rest of us. Remember that Herod and Pilate used to hate each other but were bonded by an equal hatred of the truth, ie the Light of Jesus Christ:

      And Herod with his soldiers, after treating Him with contempt and mocking Him, dressed Him in a gorgeous robe and sent Him back to Pilate. Now Herod and Pilate became friends with one another that very day; for before they had been enemies with each other. – Luke 23:11-12

      God bless.

    • abad says

      May 29, 2015 at 7:48 pm

      It won’t be long. Obama is busy importing Muslim refugees from Syria and Iraq into the USA so they can carry out their nefarious deeds…..Obama needs to be impeached for his crimes against the United States and her true citizens, not Muslim “citizens” of this nation….

    • albert says

      May 30, 2015 at 8:41 am

      Since Nato forced the serbs out of Kosovo more than 1500 Christian churches have been destroyed, the Albanian muslims posted videos on Youtube showing them being destroyed and of course all over Bosnia Christian places of worship suffered the same destruction and the congregations killed or driven out, so it has already happened in Europe.

    • Michelle Wayne says

      May 31, 2015 at 6:43 pm

      They doing it with pop blessing, after all he named one of them a terrorist Abbas who is responsible for murder of 11 Israeli Olympians in Munik a Angel of Peace lol and recognizing a state of Palestine??? that never was and the way it’s going never will be, but according to Pop it is

  2. Angemon says

    May 29, 2015 at 12:45 pm

    Just wait until muslims in the West learn about this. Surely they’ll express their outrage and point out to their religious texts and traditions to explain why it’s wrong to destroy Christian churches.

    Any minute now…

    Any minute…

    • Richie says

      May 29, 2015 at 2:51 pm

      Thge narrative is that Muslims are always the victim, even when they kill.

      Thats why the Armenian geoncide is ignored- the victim were not seen to be the Christians who were killed, but the Muslims who did the killing

      • Kay says

        May 29, 2015 at 7:10 pm

        Re Armenian genocide:

        See the Wikipedia article
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide

        The Armenian Genocide[1] (Armenian: Հայոց ցեղասպանություն; Hayots tseghaspanutyun, Turkish: Ermeni Soykırımı),[note 3] also known as the Armenian Holocaust and, traditionally by Armenians, as Medz Yeghern (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռն, “Great Crime”),[2] was the Ottoman Empire’s systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects living in their historic homeland within Ottoman Turkey as well as those who lived in other parts of the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey.[3] The total number of people killed by the genocide has been estimated at between 0.8 to 1.5 million. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested and deported some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople, the majority ultimately being murdered.

        The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre.

        —————-

        There are books written on this matter. Find them on Amazon.
        Also, the Wikipedia articles are Very Useful for investigating and criticizing Islam and Sharia.
        I reference these Wikipedia articles a lot.
        Muslims are not the victims. Muslims are the aggressors. All over the map. But you need the formal references such as this one to prove the point.
        No one told Ben Affleck or the Islamic-friendly left, so we have to tell them.
        I’m going to clobber Ben Affleck, Reza Aslan et al online, by using the facts and evidence.
        Facts and references beat Reza Aslan’s PhD. Let’s go wipe out their positions with facts and figures and therefore win the trial by public speech.

        Here is the historical reference you need:
        Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y

        Please share out these key resources! Everything is now at risk and we have to win the public contests now, not later. We have to break the narratives of the apologists and the collaborationist Left. This is how it is done, with facts and figures.
        Obviously the western Churches need to buy some clues, as do the western academics and the western homosexuals. And pretty much everyone. So, it is time to teach them. Go for it.

        • albert says

          May 30, 2015 at 9:13 am

          Years ago I came upon reports of the Armenian Holocaust , I was astonished that such an evil action had been hidden from us, and made me think differently about what Historians, the media ( BBC ) and politicians tell us. I was disgusted to read that three navies, the Royal navy, the French navy and the United States Navy actually watched from international waters while the Turks destroyed the Christian city of SMYRNA and slaughtered the inhabitants who had run down to the beach thinking that the ships offshore would help them, however they only watched and took notes, only a few Greek ships went to their aid. One piece of evidence I read was that Turkish soldiers raped Christian babies to death, some even boasting of the number they had killed in this way, I found this very hard to comprehend, how could a man do that ? But we see now that the same atrocities are happening in Syria, and what is the connection, the left wont admit this but the only connection is the religion of the monsters committing the crimes, while men and women who have the power to stop it, our leaders, watch and do nothing, it really is true that if you don’t learn from the past, you are doomed to repeat it.

    • particolor says

      May 30, 2015 at 6:44 am

      52 weeks later…………….. Still waiting ! ZZzzzzz 🙂

  3. Timothy Allen says

    May 29, 2015 at 1:25 pm

    One more Christian church destroyed. Numerous more Christians murdered by the RoP murderers. Jews targeted all over the globe, now virtually unsafe to live anywhere, other than in the state of Israel, which also is hated by the liberals and lefties…with few exceptions. Does the MSM really care? Is there anyone out there who can actually say ‘YES”?
    The Western world no longer cares about muslims killing Christians. Christianity, along with most forms of orthodox Judaism has been rejected in the western world. Do you see lefties targeting muslims, the religion which spawns the most violent and diabolical response to any thing, or anyone who doesn’t agree with them and their hate filled ideology?
    We are on the eve of destruction, and the one person who could have done something about this has left the house.Obama, in his effort to appease the muslim world, has sold out Christian and Jews around the world. I don’t wish to go too far down the eschatological road, but for many, the end times are here now. G-d help us all, and forgive us for our sins of arrogance, neglect, pride and hatefulness. And, G-d bless those who have taken a stand for goodness and righteousness…surely they will have a place in the coming Kingdom.

  4. Dr Nath says

    May 29, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    Demolishing buildings owned by the body of Christ is an aspect of the ramification of the defeat Lucifer suffered at the Cross of Calvary when he thought inspiring the imposition of death on the cross would terminate the redemption of man..He later in Hades was compelled to surrender the key of death and life and lost all the occupants he was in charge in the second compartment. His anger since then has not abetted. he inspired the killing of all the eleven of the twelve Apostles of Christ Jesus in a bid to eliminate the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But the more he tried the more the word of God for which Jesus came is spreading like wide fire since he could not stop resurrection nor was he able to obstruction ascension. As a defeated folk he is raging and using as many circumstances as possible and as many religious attractions as conceivable to unleash dissatisfaction which he absolutely have no control.
    Many human lives of the members of the body of Christ have been wasted in a number of ignoble circumstance at the hands of subscribers to Islamism a tool at the hand of Lucifer to avenge his defeat. This time is turning to demolition of worship places of harmful Christians in the bid to Islamize the entire world.
    It is an irrational conduct demolishing buildings that would have served them after the soon to come rapture of the body of Christ. They are buildings constructed with proceeds from tithes and offerings with no assistance from the Government or worldly corporate organizations where each Church build was located. They were erected as a place of worship and preparation for the coming of their ascended Head, the Christ Jesus.
    Like the Pharaoh of the old who asked who is the God that would stop all the evils on the people of Israel in their agonizing servitudes in Egypt. But when the God of Moses showed up at the red sea prepared already, the boastful Monarch and his mighty army were swallowed because he challenged the God of impossibilities
    Today, Islam through its innovative, destructive, and territorial ambitious arm, is laying hands to destroy temples ..of God
    soon revenge shall come .

  5. zulu says

    May 29, 2015 at 4:54 pm

    Beheadings, suicide bombings and the destruction of ancient artefacts: Anti-ISIS artwork depicting terror group’s most horrific crimes go on display in IRANIAN competition

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3100524/Beheadings-suicide-bombings-destruction-ancient-artefacts-Anti-ISIS-artwork-depicting-terror-group-s-horrific-crimes-display-IRANIAN-competition.html#ixzz3bYyMplG4

  6. Matthieu Baudin says

    May 29, 2015 at 11:10 pm

    ISIS is advancing towards Damascus at an alarming rate, due largely to the failure of Russian and U.S. policy and diplomacy regarding Syria. This is now the Stalingrad stage of the conflict. The current three way struggle between Syrian Government Forces, ISIS and the Free Syrian Army; is set to hand victory to ISIS and humiliation to both the U.S. and Russian Presidents.

    • spot on says

      May 30, 2015 at 3:31 pm

      B.O. may soon be wanting to set up his ISIS embassy.

      • kay says

        Jun 3, 2015 at 8:51 pm

        Embassy to Islamic State:
        Dr. Chomsky wants to negotiate with Islamic State.

        Noam Chomsky on Islamic State:
        “It’s very hard to think of anything serious that can be done [ about Islamic State ]. I mean, it should be settled diplomatically and peacefully to the extent that that’s possible. It’s not inconceivable. And we should be getting together with Iran… and with the Iraqi government… and trying to work out with them some arrangement which will satisfy the legitimate demands of the Sunni population, which is what ISIS is protecting and defending and gaining their support from.
        “They’re not coming out of nowhere. I mean, they are—one of the effects, the main effects, of the U.S. invasion of Iraq—there are many horrible effects, but one of them was to incite sectarian conflicts, that had not been there before.”
        Democracy Now interview March 2015

        Noam Chomsky: To Deal with ISIS, U.S. Should Own Up to Chaos of Iraq War & Other Radicalizing Acts

        http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/3/noam_chomsky_to_deal_with_isis
        Tuesday, March 3, 2015
        Excerpt © 2015 Democracy Now

        —————

        http://insidethejihad.com/2015/05/transcript-al-baghdadis-latest-message/

        TRANSCRIPT: AL-BAGHDADI’S LATEST MESSAGE
        By Michael S. Smith II
        On 14 May 2015, DA’ISH propagandists and supporters were atwitter about a forthcoming address from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who is also known to his followers as “Caliph Ibrahim.”

        “O Muslims! Do not think the war that we are waging is the Islamic State’s war alone. Rather, it is the Muslims’ war altogether. It is the war of every Muslim in every place, and the Islamic State is merely the spearhead in this war. It is but the war of the people of faith against the people of disbelief, so march forth to your war O Muslims.

        “Indeed, your Lord has made jihād for the cause of Allah obligatory upon you and has commanded you to fight His enemies so that He may forgive your sins, raise you in rank, take from among you martyrs, purify the believers, and destroy the disbelievers. . .But it is in order to test you. {And these days [of varying conditions] We alternate among the people so that Allah may make evident those who believe . . .and that Allah may purify the believers [through trials] and destroy the disbelievers.

        ————–

        Main reference on Chomsky. This critique is eighty two pages and five hundred fifty one citations.

        http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/200chomskylies.pdf

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