Posted on 03/05/2016 4:08:21 AM PST by Enlightened1
Asked whether Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) is practicing genocide in its extermination of Christians in Syria and Iraq, Earnest said: “My understanding is the use of that word involves a very specific legal determination that has at this point not been reached.
“We have long expressed our concerns with the tendency of – well, not a tendency – a tactic employed by ISIL to slaughter religious minorities in Iraq and in Syria,” he added.
“But we have been quite candid and direct exactly about how ISIL’s tactics are worthy of the kind of international, robust response that the international community is leading. And those tactics include a willingness to target religious minorities, including Christians.”
The 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, says genocide is “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group,” including by means of “killing members of the group.”
In March 2015, a report from the United Nations Committee on Human Rights stated: “The acts of violence [by IS in Iraq and Syria] perpetrated against civilians because of their affiliation or perceived affiliation to an ethnic or religious group … may constitute genocide.”
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God bless you, liz, for your hard work.
Even if DT can win it’s gonna take four or five years just to start to clean up the mess.
Even when the last Christian has been murdered the word genocide will not apply since if Christians had not been there it (their murder) would not have happened. In other words, they brought their murder upon themselves. Scape-goating is the way of things throughout the Middle East just as it has become right here in the USA. Consider that if you are a straight-white Christian conservative, in the eyes of self-righteous (morally pure) progressive imbeciles you are a priori guilty of a laundry list of sins such as homophobia, racism, extremism, bigotry and even domestic terrorism. Thus if Ferguson thugs or jihadi thugs murder you, they are not the guilty ones. You are. You brought your murder upon yourself because it is you who are evil.
Was being facetious ... We all know that genocide in today’s world applies only to muslims being killed by Crusaders, yesterday’s application to Jews is merely speculative and a product of the grand world Jewish conspiracy.
Yeah. Muslims and communists, by definition in this White House and their national news media, cannot commit rapes, invade countries, nor infiltrate and sodomize Jews, Christians or any other countries. It's a “religious thing” don't ya know.
However, the Christian Crusades of 1000 years ago ARE genocide, because of course, they were an invasion by Christians against Muslims!
When you realize that Obama is not on our side, it all makes sense!
Yeah, because obastard wants the Christians in this country exterminated first.
Thank-you for your explanation. It appears to me that uninformed middle class Americans are unaware of the sword hanging over our heads.
But, get upset that your child can’t bring a ham sandwich to school and the DOJ investigates, protests ensue, classes are mandated and islamophobia is the charge.
The Islamic sword ... that’s racist, as everyone knows that Islam is just another version of Christianity, that Jesus and Mohammad were brothers in spirit, and that Islam stands for World Peace (after everyone is muslim, of course - just not me and other liberals who are fighting for their right to practice their religion as they see fit).
and after all it is only Christians and they don't count in any case
So, we can kill an equal percentage of Muslims over there with impunity?
Why?
When they are all killed, it will be so.
Hmm, so it’s like the UN has to actually say something... oh brother.
A fixed definition that the UN has voted on, might be one thing. But this is just making the whole thing into Calvinball.
Because the folks who said there was no controlling legal authority, now claim to be the controlling legal authority.
That was one thing about last “debate” i liked where Trump at least mentioned beheading and drowning in cages by muzzies
International? There’s definitely a standard in the W Hut and it seems to be: there are still some Christians left.
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