The Christian communities of Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon are well on the way to joining their Jewish cousins. --- sorry ... the jews have trademarked the word holocaust.
On Friday, April 8, 2016 at 2:10:37 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/04/08/inconvenient-genocide/ > > > Inconvenient Genocide > > April 8, 2016 *by Raymond Ibrahim* 5 Comments > <http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/04/08/inconvenient-genocide/#disqus_thread> > > > *Jerusalem Post* > <http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Inconvenient-genocide-450612>, > by Caroline Glick > > The Christian communities of Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon are well on > the way to joining their Jewish cousins. The Jewish communities of these > states predated Islam by a millennium, and were vibrant until the 20th > century. But the Arab world’s war on the Jewish state, and more generally > on Jews, wiped out the Jewish populations several decades ago. > > And now the Christian communities, which like the Jews, predate Islam, are > being targeted for eradication. > > The ongoing genocide of Middle Eastern Christians at the hands of Sunni > jihadists is a moral outrage. Does it also affect Israeli national > interests? What do we learn from the indifference of Western governments – > led by the Obama administration – to their annihilation? True, after years > of deliberately playing down the issue and denying the problem, the Obama > administration is finally admitting it exists. > > Embarrassed by the US House of Representatives’ unanimous adoption of a > resolution last month recognizing that Middle Eastern Christians are being > targeted for genocide, the State Department finally acknowledged the > obvious on March 25, when Secretary of State John Kerry stated that Islamic > State is conducting a “genocide of Christians, Yazidis and Shi’ites.” > > Kerry’s belated move, which State Department lawyers were quick to insist > has no operational significance, raises two questions. > > First, what took the Obama administration so long? Persecution of > Christians in Iraq began immediately after the US-led coalition brought > down Saddam Hussein in 2003. With the rise of Islamic State in 2012, the > process of destroying the Christian community went into high gear. And now > these ancient communities are on the brink of extinction. > > In Iraq, Christians comprised 8 percent of the population in 2003. Today > less than 1% of Iraqis are Christians. In Syria, the Christian community > has lost between half and two-thirds of its members in the past five years. > > One of the appalling aspects of ISIS’s deliberate, open targeting of > Christians for destruction is how little resistance it has received from > local Sunni populations. As Raymond Ibrahim from the David Horowitz Freedom > Center has scrupulously documented, the local Sunnis have not stood up for > their Christian neighbors, who have lived side-by-side with them for > hundreds of years. Rather, in areas that have been conquered by ISIS, the > local Sunnis have collaborated with their genocidal masters in raping and > murdering Christian neighbors, plundering their property, destroying their > churches, and driving them from their ancestral homes. > > Although precise data is hard to come by, it is clear that thousands of > Christians have been slaughtered. Thousands of Christian women and girls > have been sold as sex slaves in ISIS slave markets, subjected to > continuous, violent rape and beatings. Nuns and priests have been enslaved, > crucified, mutilated, kidnapped and held for ransom, as have lay members of > Christian communities. Christians have been burned alive. > > For years, the administration said that the persecution doesn’t amount to > genocide because according to ISIS’s propaganda, Christians are allowed to > remain in their homes if they agree to live as dhimmis – that is, without > any human rights, and subjected to confiscatory taxation. > > But as Nina Shea from the Hudson Institute has reported, these claims were > shown to be false in Mosul, Nineveh and other places where ISIS has claimed > that such practices were instituted. > > The jihadist genocide of Christians isn’t limited to Iraq and Syria. Boko > Haram – ISIS’s affiliate in Nigeria – is undertaking a systematic campaign > to annihilate Christianity in Africa. ISIS’s affiliates in Sinai and Libya > have similarly targeted Christians, staging mass beheadings and other > monstrous acts. > > And of course, a region needn’t be under direct ISIS control for > Christians to be targeted for destruction. The Easter massacre in Pakistan > was further evidence that wherever radical Islamists gain power, they use > it to murder Christians. > > And as Larry Franklin from the Gatestone Institute noted in a recent > article, the exodus of Christians from the Palestinian Authority is the > direct consequence of deliberate persecution of Christians by the PA. > > Given the prevalence of Christian persecution, why is the West – which is > overwhelmingly Christian – so reticent about mentioning it? And why are > Western leaders loathe to do anything to stop it? There are two ways to end > genocide. First, you can defeat those conducting it on the battlefield. > > If you destroy the forces conducting the genocide, then the genocide ends. > > The second way you can stop genocide is by evacuating the targeted > population and providing its members with refuge. > > After stipulating that ISIS is carrying out a genocide, Kerry made clear > that the US will not defeat ISIS to end it. Instead, Kerry said, “We must > bear in mind… that the best response to genocide is a reaffirmation of the > fundamental right to survive of every group targeted for destruction. What > Daesh [ISIS] wants to erase, we must preserve. That requires defeating > Daesh, but it also requires the rejection of discrimination and bigotry.” > > Kerry then explained that the US’s plan is to cultivate the formation of a > multicultural society in Syria. Given the brutal nature of the war, Kerry’s > plan is tantamount to saying the US intends to defeat ISIS and rescue those > it is currently exterminating by bringing unicorns and leprechauns to the > slave markets of Raqqa. Substantively, Kerry’s plan is to deny Christians > refuge, and to abandon them to the mercy of their murderers. > > While delusional, Kerry’s statement was in line with the Obama > administration’s timid, feckless military campaign against ISIS. Everyone > knows that the US military could take down ISIS in a matter of weeks if > Obama ordered it to do so. > > But rather than act decisively, the US has limited its operations to > timorous aerial bombing. > > By conducting a barely there campaign, Obama tells the world that although > he will be happy to take credit for any defeat ISIS suffers, he will not > allow the US to lead the fight against the jihadist death machine. > > As for providing refuge to the populations targeted with genocide, the raw > data make clear that Obama does just the opposite. He is providing refuge > for Sunni Muslims, who are not being targeted for genocide, which is being > conducted by Sunni Muslims. > > As Ibrahim has documented, although Christians made up 10% of the Syrian > population in 2011, they comprise a mere 2.7% of the Syrian refugees the > Obama administration has allowed into the US. And when presidential hopeful > Senator Ted Cruz called for the US to provide refuge to Christians, who > pose no security threat and are targeted with genocide and persecution > while banning Muslim immigration, Obama accused him of bigotry. > > Despite the fact that FBI Director James Comey told Congress that the US > lacked the capacity to effectively screen Muslims from Syria for ties to > jihadist groups, Obama said that a policy of saving those marked for > extinction over those who come from the population conducting the genocide > is “shameful,” and “not American.” > > Beyond refusing to take the necessary steps to ensure that persecuted > Christians are rescued from annihilation, the State Department has been > rejecting visa requests from Christian activists and leaders from > persecuted communities to visit the US to share information about their > suffering with the American public. This, at the same time that the > administration has welcomed Muslim jihad sympathizers, including Muslim > Brotherhood members, to Washington. > > For instance, last May, the State Department denied a visa to Sister Diana > Momeka, an Iraqi nun and ISIS survivor. Momeka was the only Christian > member of a delegation of persecuted minorities. Representatives of every > other group received visas. It took a public outcry to force the State > Department to reverse its decision. > > Also last year, the State Department gave visas to all Muslim regional > governors in northern Nigeria to participate in a conference sponsored by > the US Institute of Peace. They denied a visa to the region’s only > Christian governor, Jonah David Jang. Christian activists alleged that Jang > was denied a visa because he spoke up to US officials about anti-Christian > persecution in 12 states in northern Nigeria that have instituted Sharia > law. > > What accounts for this behavior? The answer is not ignorance, but > ideologically- motivated bigotry. The Aid to the Church in Need > organization explained in its 2015 report on Christian persecution, > “Christians have been targeted [because]… Christianity [is seen] as a > foreign ‘colonial’ import. Christians are seen as linked to the West, which > is perceived as corrupt and exploitative.” > > In another report, the group explained that the Western media has avoided > covering the story of the Islamic genocide of Middle East Christians > because of “misplaced embarrassment about the 19th-century colonial powers > evangelizing ‘the natives’ in far flung places.” > > In other words, Middle Eastern Christians, whose communities predate > Islam, are targeted because they are perceived as Western implants. > > And the West ignores their suffering, because the Left in the West > perceives them as Western implants. > > In both cases, prejudices, rooted on the one hand in jihadist Islam, and > on the other hand in Western self-hatred and post-colonialism, reach the > same bigoted conclusion: the only “authentic” people in the Middle East are > Muslims. > > Everybody else is a colonial implant. And as such, they deserve what they > get. > > This then brings us back to Israel, and the Jews. > > The same ideological prejudice that refuses to recognize that the Islamic > State is Islamic, refuses to recognize that jihad is unique to Islam, > refuses to recognize that Christians as religious minorities are being > targeted for annihilation, and refuses to recognize that the Christians of > the Middle East are ancient peoples who have lived in their communities > since the dawn of Christianity, also refuse to recognize the rights of the > Jewish people as the indigenous people of the land of Israel. > > This is the reason that Western governments, led by the Obama > administration, are unwilling to defeat ISIS. This is why they are giving > preference to Muslim asylum-seekers, who they are incapable of screening, > over Christians, who it is unnecessary to screen. > > This is the reason that the same governments are far more willing to > attack Jews for living beyond the 1949 armistice lines, in Jerusalem, Judea > and Samaria – the cradle of Jewish civilization and the heartland of the > land of Israel, than they are willing to end their support for the PA which > sponsors and celebrates terrorism. This is why the same governments eagerly > embrace every allegation of Israeli racism, real or imagined, while they > ignore, or even fund racist Palestinian efforts to deny Jewish history, a > history which leads to the inevitable conclusion that the Jews are the > indigenous people of the land of Israel. > > The reason Obama refuses to protect Middle East Christians from extinction > is because he cannot rescue them – either on the ground or by ensuring they > can flee to safety – without abandoning his ideological faith that the only > “natives” of the Middle East are the Muslims. > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJma2JnNTkzBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NjAxMzkwNjQ-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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