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Syria: Muslim disguised as priest murders three at Assyrian genocide commemoration

Jun 19, 2016 2:13 pm By Robert Spencer

“It is believed the bomber was targeting Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Karim of the Syriac Orthodox Church, who was leading the commemoration.” The Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Karim must have provoked them in some way, right? Maybe he drew Muhammad, or stated that Islam wasn’t actually a religion of peace? Was it that he was commemorating the Assyrian genocide, which was perpetrated by Muslims, such that Christians should, rather than commemorating it, maintain a careful and respectful silence about it? Or maybe he simply dared to be a Christian in an area where being one can all too easily be taken as an insult to Islam and an affront to Muslims.

Patriarch Aphrem

“Suicide Bomber Targets Assyrian Event in Syria, 3 Killed,” AINA, June 19, 2016:

Qamishle, Syria (AINA) — A suicide bomber disguised as a priest attempted to enter an Assyrian genocide commemoration event in the al-Wusta district of Qamishle but was stopped by Assyrian forces. The bomber detonated his bomb outside the hall, killing himself and three members of the Assyrian Sutoro security forces and wounding five. It is believed the bomber was targeting Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Karim of the Syriac Orthodox Church, who was leading the commemoration….

This is the fourth attack on Assyrians in Qamishle in the past six months:

  • May 22, 2016: an attack by ISIS in the Assyrian al-Wusta district of Qamishle, Syria killed at least five persons, three of them Assyrians, and injured more than a dozen.
  • January 24, 2016: Two explosions rocked an Assyrian neighborhood in Qamishli. The first targeted the Star Cafe, where a bomb was placed on a bicycle that was left in front of the store. The explosion killed 3 Assyrians and injured 20. The second blast targeted Joseph Bakery.
  • December 30,2015: Three explosions targeted Assyrian businesses in Qamishli, 16 were killed.

No one has claimed responsibility for the latest attack.

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  1. Christianblood says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 2:21 pm

    It is very likely that this suicide bomber was part of the muslim jihadists being trained by the CIA and the Pentagon and he was sent to assassinate the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch for his unwavering support of President Assad.

    • خَليفة says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 2:28 pm

      An interesting conjecture. Very plausible and possible – after all US trained bin Laden to fight soviets in Afghsnistan back in the 80’s.

      • Christianblood says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 2:35 pm

        خَليفة

        It is indeed very plausible, it is like 97% likely that is what happened.
        It is like the same old, same old US pro-jihadist policies like the below here:

        • Angemon says

          Jun 19, 2016 at 4:48 pm

          Christianblood posyed;

          “It is indeed very plausible, it is like 97% likely that is what happened.”

          Citation needed.

      • Nan Barr says

        Jun 21, 2016 at 12:07 am

        Then Bin Laden armed the Kosovo Liberation army ( KLA) to fight the Christian Serbs.

        A gal named Julia Gorin has a great blog about that war on Serbia back in 1999. I read it from time to time because I have a Serbian friend from work and I am trying to understand what happened. I mean Bill Clinton was in charge so IT HAD TO BE a bad thing bombing those Serbian people.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 2:49 pm

      “Christianblood” wrote:

      It is very likely that this suicide bomber was part of the muslim jihadists being trained by the CIA and the Pentagon and he was sent to assassinate the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch for his unwavering support of President Assad.
      ………………………..

      “Christianblood’s” rabid hatred of America and the West has finally caused him to become completely unhinged. The US does not train Jihad suicide bombers, nor does it–good God!–assassinate Christian clerics.

      • Christianblood says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 3:44 pm

        gravenimage

        What I am talking about may be unbelievable to you and to others but the reality is that, over 97%, that is what very likely happened here! Graven, clueless and evil US government officials won’t hesitate to train and send special muslim suicide bombers to murder even ten thousand Christian patriarchs if this will please their barbarous islamic allies such as Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia and to further its hegemonic ambitions. Things are much, much worse than you could ever imagine.

        • Angemon says

          Jun 19, 2016 at 4:54 pm

          Christianblood posted:

          “the reality is that, over 97%,”

          Reality, eh? So you shouldn’t have any problems in giving your sources for that number.

          “Graven, clueless and evil US government officials won’t hesitate to train and send special muslim suicide bombers to murder even ten thousand Christian patriarchs if this will please their barbarous islamic allies such as Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia and to further its hegemonic ambitions. ”

          Again, citation needed. Are you a mind-reader? Are you privy to top-secret information? C’mon, don’t feed us for a day, instead teach us how to fish!

          “Things are much, much worse than you could ever imagine.”

          Ah, but your paymaster’s propaganda machine has a mind of its own – a very imaginative mind, apparently…

        • Christianblood says

          Jun 19, 2016 at 5:29 pm

          Angemon

          To please its (Satanic) Saudi masters and to further its evil, hegemonic influence and greed, I am 100% sure that America will not hesitate for a second to murder up to ten thousand innocent Christian patriarchs! I can say this because I know what you don’t know and see what you can’t see!

        • Angemon says

          Jun 20, 2016 at 7:21 pm

          Christianblood posted:

          “Angemon

          To please its (Satanic) Saudi masters and to further its evil, hegemonic influence and greed, I am 100% sure that America will not hesitate for a second to murder up to ten thousand innocent Christian patriarchs!”

          Ah, so it’s a matter of faith, not facts – you supposedly believe America would do such and such and therefore, in the classic leftist fashion you pretend to despise, it becomes the truth.

          “ I can say this because I know what you don’t know and see what you can’t see!”

          So you need to have your head examined – what else is new?

      • Christianblood says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 3:58 pm

        gravenimage posted:

        (The US does not train Jihad suicide bombers, nor does it).
        What do you mean Graven?

        US trained, funded, supported and armed various islamic jihadist groups in the past four decades in Afghanistan, in Iran, in Libya, in the Balkans, in Egypt and now in Syria.

      • Nan Barr says

        Jun 20, 2016 at 11:45 pm

        Well then WHY did the USA supported AL NUSTA front kidnap 2 Greek Orthodox Bishops over 3 years ago??

    • Angemon says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 4:46 pm

      Citation needed – I, for one, never heard of this alleged CIA program to murder Syrian Christians. It’s almost as if you’re simply parroting anti-Western propaganda…

      • Christianblood says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 5:20 pm

        Angemon

        Your personal willful blindness cannot be erased by any fact put before your eyes! You are the type of people about which the Son of God said: “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”

        To gain some real spiritual awareness, please read (contemplatively) the gospel of St. John 9:1-41.

        • Ex-muslim says

          Jun 20, 2016 at 12:37 pm

          @CB

          It is great to watch how the religious establishment of his day opposed Jesus who is the most spiritual revolutionary that the world has ever seen! God bless you!

        • Western Canadian says

          Jun 20, 2016 at 1:09 pm

          A round about admission on the part of the paid troll unchristiancrap, that he CANNOT substantiate his claims against the US. He seems to be projecting the soviet unions behaviour onto those who were so successfully attacked by stealth, by his same much loved soviet union…. The success they had, is something he never ceases to come by to gloat over.

        • Angemon says

          Jun 20, 2016 at 7:20 pm

          Christianblood posted:

          “Angemon

          Your personal willful blindness cannot be erased by any fact put before your eyes!”

          Funny you say that when you never did such a thing. Heck, I’m asking you to do just that. You mentioned a CIA program to murder Syrian Christians – citation needed.

          “You are the type of people about which the Son of God said: “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”

          To gain some real spiritual awareness, please read (contemplatively) the gospel of St. John 9:1-41.”

          No, thanks, I’ll pass. But I’ll read whatever you post to back your claim about this alleged CIA program to murder Syrian Christians, even though, if its anything like your usual “evidence”, it’ll probably end up contradicting what you said. Citation needed.

    • Ex-muslim says

      Jun 20, 2016 at 12:35 pm

      @ CB

      True. True. America is definitely a pro-Islamic and Anti-Christian nation that won’t hesitate to kill Christians to further its evil pro-Islamic goals. In May alone, America resettled over 1400 muslims from Syria but only included 2 Christians in this group. It doesn’t more pro-Islamic this this! America is the ANTI-CHRIST!

      • Angemon says

        Jun 20, 2016 at 7:22 pm

        Ex-muslim posted:

        “@ CB

        True. True. America is definitely a pro-Islamic and Anti-Christian nation that won’t hesitate to kill Christians to further its evil pro-Islamic goals.”

        So why are Christians in America not only thriving but also opposing islam? You do know who’s the director of this site, don’t you?

  2. خَليفة says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 2:24 pm

    I guess Muslims don’t think about anything but appearances. I.e. If you look like a priest, you must be a priest.

    Muslims are pathetic, they live at the absolute lowest level of humankind, and they think the rest of the world is inferior to them.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 2:50 pm

      This wasn’t intended to fool Muslims, but just to fool the poor victims so that this Jihadist could get close enough to murder them.

      The “Prophet” Muhammed himself condoned this deceit.

      • خَليفة says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 3:01 pm

        The guards were not fooled, but the bomber thought he would be able to fool them.

        • Nan Barr says

          Jun 21, 2016 at 12:02 am

          The Lord works in mysterious ways…

          Still sorry for those martyred by the bomber.

          May they rest in peace. +

      • Jay Boo says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 7:13 pm

        Thanks for remembering to use quotes with “Prophet”

        If I ever happen to forget to do that, I would not be the least bit offended if I were reminded.

  3. Christianblood says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 2:30 pm

    In the meantime, US asks Russia not to bomb Al-Qaeda branch in Syria. Watch:
    https://www.rt.com/news/345378-russia-us-nusra-extremists-syria/

    • Ex-muslim says

      Jun 20, 2016 at 12:39 pm

      This is hard to believe (CB) but it is the reality. US wants to empower jihadists and murder Christians and other infidels. US is the most politically anti-Christ nation on Earth!

      • Angemon says

        Jun 20, 2016 at 7:24 pm

        Ex-muslim posted:

        “This is hard to believe (CB) but it is the reality. US wants to empower jihadists and murder Christians and other infidels. US is the most politically anti-Christ nation on Earth!”

        As opposed to what, Iran, where Christians are actually persecuted and fear for their lives? Oh, that’s right – you’re not allowed to criticize Iran just as long as it’s aligned to Moscow…

    • Western Canadian says

      Jun 20, 2016 at 1:11 pm

      And again, the US currently is run by power-brokers, trained and supported by the soviet union in it’s stealth jihad waged against the West.

  4. gravenimage says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 2:44 pm

    Syria: Muslim disguised as priest murders three at Assyrian genocide commemoration
    ……………………………

    Well, that says it all, doesn’t it? If Christians or other Infidels dare to lament Muslims murdering them, then Muslims will murder them.

    God, I hate Islam.

    • Phobic-ist says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 3:30 pm

      I swear by almighty God, not as much as I do….

  5. Cecilia Ellis says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 4:49 pm

    The jihadist tactic of dressing in cassocks, as a means of infiltrating a crowd to assassinate a Catholic leader, is certainly not unprecedented. As part of the Project Bojinka plan, Ramzi Yusuf included a suicide-targeting of Pope John Paul II during his 1995 visit to the Philippines. Though the plan was disrupted by a fire caused in the apartment when bomb chemicals ignited, the extent of planning was revealed by the evidence found in the Manila apartment, to include religious articles and priests’ cassocks. Subsequent interrogation of suspects by the Philippine police verified that the clerical attire was intended to be used to get in immediate contact with Pope John Paul and then to detonate the bomb.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot

    Though Pope Paul is now deceased, Ramzi Yusuf is serving a life sentence in the supermax prison located at Florence, Colorado.

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 5:06 pm

      Should read: “Though Pope John Paul II is now deceased”

  6. abad says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 5:41 pm

    The ONLY ally the United States should have in the Middle East is Israel.

    NO ONE ELSE.

    End of the story.

    And Trump will lead the way out of that hell-hole of the Muslim world.

  7. R Cole says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 6:12 pm

    Probably the Free Syria lot Obama has been supporting!!

    Can’t say ‘radical Islam’ – which is a courtesy really – given the religion’s history.

    Religious diversity in the Islamic world – is quickly becoming next to nil. [A fact that can’t purely be blamed on the ‘few’ radicals – implicated also are the vast majority.]

    But as this cleansing unfolds – we are being lectured on the proper etiquette when addressing Islamic matters.

    What’s outrageous about it – if this attack on Assyrian Christians had happened in the west – western “Islamophobia” would be blamed and we’d see the run of articles on how to best alter our behavior as to not encourage more Islamic terrorism!

    How did we get here?

    ::

    On the one side – there are calls to get rid of the problem on the other side – there is clear respect or deference shown for the very thing that is causing it.

    A house divided can’t stand – and on Islam the western house is divided.

  8. mortimer says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 6:20 pm

    Message from Muslims: “If you say that we committed genocide, we’ll kill you.”

    • Nan Barr says

      Jun 20, 2016 at 11:59 pm

      The Patriarch and many of his Bishops were recently in Russia to thank the Russian Orthodox Church for ALL the humanitarian aide to their people.

      Perhaps the Patriarch has to go because he KNOWS who really HELPED his people.
      RUSSIAN CHRISTIANS. And the USA has done NOTHING to help them. No guns or air cover.

      I hope that before this over, Christians will dominate Syria and they will elect a Christian leader to assist running Syria.

      By the way, who were the guards killed? Syrian Christian Militia armed by RUSSIA.

      I would just like to say that IF the USA and the CIA ARE behind this civil war in Syria, I think the USA is about to be punished beyond belief.

      Is Hillary spelled with an ‘a’ or an “e” ??? She may be the unwitting yet willing, WRATH OF GOD.

  9. Jorge abuauad says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    Repeat Washington shit delete my post for talking about CIA and terrorist and saudi in Yemen droping bomb in children hospital for the deaf but wait no diplomat state departament letters there o yes all paíd by the saudis

  10. mortimer says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 6:42 pm

    Assyrian Christians have been the Christians most persecuted by Muslims. They have been called the ‘Martyr Church’.

    Genocide is the worst crime, therefore genocides always deny it. Muslims believe their supremacism allows them to cover up their crimes in the service of Muslim ‘honor’.

  11. Alexander the Grape says

    Jun 20, 2016 at 8:17 am

    You are right, Mortimer. During and after the slaughter of the Armenians, between 1.5 and 1.8 million, the Young Turks “The Al-Shabaab Turk” Jihadists, with the assistance of Muslim Kurds, Chechens and Circassians carried out this other Christian massacre, 1914 and 1918. This is the one called the Assyrian Genocide. According to figures published by the Treaty of Lausanne, 300,000 Christians were slaughtered. That is 1/2 of the entire Assyrian people were slaughtered. From 1918 to 1920, Arab Militias happily carried on the massacre.
    But that’s not all! There is also the Pontic Greek Genocide. The Young Turks, keen to wipe out Christianity, also carried out a systematic cleansing of the Christian Ottoman Greek population in Asia Minor, Anatolia, and Pontus. These things are hard to believe, but they are strictly in accord with Koranic teaching. Between 1914 and 1923, the world saw massacres, death marches, and the destruction of all Christian Orthodox cultural, historic and religious monuments. In 1922, the British Foreign Minister reported that more than 1,000,000 (a million) Greeks had been killed in cold blood, without the slightest provocation. The same as happened to the over 1,500,000 Armenians, and the 300,000 Assyrians.
    Now, if you are good at sums, you can count nearly 3,000,000 Christians of Syrian, Armenian and Greek origin slaughtered by the Young Turks and their allies. Why? Because the Koran says to do it.

  12. Alexander the Grape says

    Jun 20, 2016 at 8:31 am

    But that’s not all. During the World War 2, The Turkish Muslims allied with Hitler, and carried on the Jihad. Muslim SS divisions were, among other atrocities, responsible for wiping out the Serbian Christian population of Srebenica, in Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Now, you must have heard of that one, because more recently, in 1995, the Serbs tried to take their land back from the Muslims who had annihilated their people and then repopulated their land with Muslim families. As Ratko Mladic stated on film July 11th.: ” We give this town (back) to the Serb nation … the time has come to take revenge on the Muslims”. But that’s another story.

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