A Christian priest in Turkey has been on trial for trumped-up charges since January. The Assyrian priest, Sefer Aho Bileçen, is accused of “being a member of a terrorist organization.” According to the indictment, the so-called “evidence” is “sharing his food with some PKK members.” The third hearing of the priest was held on November […]
Turkey: Muslims fire shots at Christian journalist’s home, “scaring and intimidating for Assyrians”
Once again, the terror imperative. “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows.” (Qur’an 8:60) “Christian Journalist Targeted in Turkey,” International Christian […]
Iraq: Elderly Assyrian Christian women stabbed as jihadists terrorize their community
The whole world is obsessed about the Palestinians who are referenced as “indigenous people” when they are really peoples from Ottoman South Syria. The Jews are the indigenous inhabitants of their land, as are Christians throughout the Middle East–both groups tormented by jihadists who want them to either be dhimmis or vanish. The aim of […]
Only 900 Christians left in Syrian region where 10,000 lived before the Islamic State came in
The international “human rights community” is too busy tracking down claims of “Islamophobia” to take any notice of this. “‘There Are No Girls Left’: Syria’s Christian Villages Hollowed Out by ISIS,” by Ben Hubbard, New York Times, August 15, 2018: …The number of Christians across the Middle East has been declining for decades as persecution […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Even the Kurds Now Impose a Disguised Jizyah
The recent news that the Kurdish government in northern Iraq has imposed a variety of special taxes and fees on those who live in the town of Ankawa should raise an eyebrow or two. Business owners in Ankawa — but nowhere else within the Kurdish-run area — will now have to pay a fee to […]
Northern Iraq: Kurdish government imposes jizya on Assyrian Christians
“One Assyrian politician interviewed by the API was told by a KRG official that this was a form of jizya tax, justified because Ankawa is a Christian town.” Jizya is a tax that the subjugated “People of the Book” must pay to the Muslims for the privilege of being allowed to practice their religions, albeit […]