Posted on 03/05/2016 2:30:14 PM PST by John Semmens
Presidential Press Secretary Josh Earnest told media representatives that "the Administration will not declare ISIL's practice of slaughtering Christians an act of genocide. From a technical perspective, genocide is the effort to exterminate a race or ethnic group. Most of the Christian victims have the same ethnic heritage as the killers. So we're not seeing the killings as having the requisite motivation to qualify as genocide, per se."
"On top of this, there is a genuine question of religious freedom that needs to be taken into account," Earnest added. "According to Islamic faith, Muslims have an obligation to fight for the spread of the religion. The Quran instructs them to slay those who refuse to convert to Islam. Therefore, a blanket condemnation of acts carried out in the pursuance of the faith would trample on Muslims' Constitutional and, indeed, human right to freely practice their religion."
Earnest made a plea for "Americans to be more open-minded about beliefs that are different from theirs. I would hope that we could be more sophisticated and forgiving than the Christian crusaders who invaded Muslim lands 800 years ago. They were untrue to Jesus' admonition to turn the other cheek. We ought not follow their errant example. We need to be better than that."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2016/03/05/state-dept-to-wait-until-after-election-to-evaluate-hillarys-emails/
“...not seeing the killings as having the requisite motivation to qualify as genocide, per se.”
Per se? Really?
“Gnosis was never really “founded,” per se, but forged over time among a group of people who became friends talking over code.”
In other words, like minded deviants can concoct a toxic and even life threateneing world view, evolve it further through action, but it’s roots of hatred and coomon thread of malice will somehow keep it at arm’s length from the perps?
Well done, Jugears. You miserable SOB you will rot in hell, if you are lucky.
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