Posted on 02/19/2015 9:21:29 AM PST by C19fan
Athra Kado had never shot a gun before, let alone seen a battlefield.
Until recently Kado, 25, spent his young career in a classroom, teaching high school students how to speak Syriac, his native language.
But Kado is one of hundreds of Assyrian Christian men—many with no military experience—taking up arms to protect their towns from ISIS terrorists who invaded this part of Iraq early last year.
“If we don’t have land to live, what’s the purpose of teaching a language?” Kado tells The Daily Signal in a Skype interview from a former U.S. military facility outside the city of Kirkuk, where he is finishing up a training camp with 500 or so amateur fighters.
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Christians are indeed more likely to care about their neighbors, even those who believe in different faiths.
Obama would rather train Syrian “moderates” who will behead you with a sharp knife instead of a dull one.
I feel helpless. No money to donate. Prayers for these souls. I hope God is watching and takes great vengence on the tumorous cancer in the WH.
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