Posted on 09/05/2014 10:24:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Earlier this week the BBC and Al Jazeera both reported on armed Iraqi citizen volunteers who helped government forces fight off ISIS in Amerli. Today, the AP is out with a story about Christians in the Middle East who are arming themselves, carrying weapons with them during daily tasks and heading to the hills at night to defend their communities as violence continues to rage around them. Genocide is at their front door and they're doing everything they can to stop it from coming in.
Every day around sunset, dozens of residents of this small Lebanese Christian village on the border carry their automatic rifles and deploy on surrounding hills, taking up positions and laying ambushes in case Muslim extremists from neighboring Syria attack.
"We all know that if they come, they will slit our throats for no reason," said one villager as he drove through the streets of Qaa, an assault rifle resting next to him.
Now, for the first time since the Lebanese civil war ended in 1990, Lebanese Christians are rearming and setting up self-defense units to protect themselves, an indication of the growing anxiety over the expanding reach of radical Islamic groups.
So far, the terror army ISIS has slaughtered and tortured thousands of Christians in Iraq and Syria.
H/T Chelsea Vicari
Good news.
I wonder who donated the genuine assault weapons and the ammo.
Rub the ammo in bacon grease and advertise the fact for good measure.
Same tactic as the Sikhs in India who neighbor Muslim areas, and who are obligated by terms of their religion to always carry a knife on their person.
..... Defintely not Obama’s America!
The sh!t that we have become!
It will be interesting to see if Christians from Syria and elsewhere start showing up in Lebanon as refugees.
The problem with Lebanon is that the original Christian majority shrank during the civil war because Christians had an easy time emigrating, and the refugees throughout the years have been mostly Muslims.
Luke 22:36
Quick. Someone get on the bat phone and notify commissioner bloomberg and the ‘mom’s lookin’ for some action’. Those actually look like select fire weapons. Nobody should have those on the streets. Even Christians.
Good for them, and Godspeed to them.
they should arm themselves to the teeth. Making sure Christians have the means to defend themselves in the Middle East should be considered a primary work of missions.
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