Posted on 07/19/2019 12:45:44 PM PDT by robowombat
Trump steps in to save Christians and Yazidis from extinction by jihadists
JUL 19, 2019 3:37 PM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
To acknowledge the levels of Christian persecution and Yazidis means to acknowledge a major problem within Islamic countries which are governed by the sharia; therefore, Christians have been left virtually ignored. That is, until Donald Trump decided to step in.
“U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is helping bring Christians and Yazidis in Iraq back from the brink of extinction fomented by a genocidal campaign at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), religious minority representatives declared this week at the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom convened by the Department of State.”
But two months ago, Fox News did a report that showed Christian persecution was close to “genocide levels” according to the international definition, but was being largely ignored because of “political correctness.” That’s because Muslims are persecuting Christians at an alarming rate, and to report about human rights abuses in the name of Islam is considered to be “Islamophobic.” Persecution Watchdog Open Doors USA shows that of the top 16 worst countries for Christian persecution, all were majority Muslim but two countries: North Korea and India.
BBC also featured a report ordered by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt that found Christians to be the most persecuted religious group.
Despite comments about “Islamophobia,” “racism” and the like about Donald Trump, Fr. Muntaser Haddad of the St. Ephrem Syriac Catholic Church gives a succinct summary about the hope that the Trump administration has brought to Christians in the region: “The U.S. has always been a symbol of freedom for persecuted people around the world. If minorities like Yazidis and Christians would have vanished from the Middle East, it would show the world the United States is not invested in promoting its values and a lot of people would lose hope.”
Instead of helping those most in need, globalists have been flooding Europe with Muslim migrants, with the same efforts seen in Canada. Less than a week ago, Jihad Watch reported about the Christian refugee family in Welland, Ontario who was facing deportation back to jihad-plagued Nigeria.
“Hope is Back’: Trump Helps Save Christians, Yazidis in Iraq from Extinction,” by Edwin Mora, Breitbart, July 18, 2019:
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is helping bring Christians and Yazidis in Iraq back from the brink of extinction fomented by a genocidal campaign at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), religious minority representatives declared this week at the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom convened by the Department of State.
The U.S. government has officially determined that ISIS committed genocide against Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities during its reign of terror in the Middle East that began in 2014, prompting the Trump administration to launch a multi-million-dollar program to help the victims. Several religious leaders and organizations warned that the two groups were facing extinction in the wake of the ISIS genocide.
Echoing Yazidis activists and a U.S.-based Syriac Catholic Iraqi priest who spoke to Breitbart News, a Chaldean Catholic priest from a parish in a Christian Iraqi town indicated that hope for the future along with security improvements have returned to religious minority communities devastated by ISIS, courtesy of the Trump administration efforts.
Their comments came during the three-day ministerial summit launched by the State Department on Tuesday.
While delivering a speech during the event on Wednesday, Fr. Thabet Habib Youssef, a Chaldean Catholic priest from the town of Karamles in Iraq’s Nineveh province, thanked the Trump administration for its assistance.
The priest, known as Fr. Thabet, said:
I wish to give thanks to the government of the United States for including us in this important conference and a special thanks to the administration of President Trump for his concern and commitment to the persecuted minority communities in Iraq.
I can say this conference gives us hope. Our greatest fear in the early years was that the world would forget us. This conference tells us we are not forgotten.
Nearly half of the Christian families who fled Karamles, liberated by U.S. and local forces in November 2016, have returned and Fr. Thabet expects many more to come back in the coming year.
Although ISIS burned down the homes and churches in the Christian town, “We are determined to return and rebuild,” he proclaimed.
“Today we have 45 percent of our families returned and we hope in this next year we will see many more,” he added.
He went on to say that the Iraqi government needs to do more to bring about “real change and support for the protection, safety, and equal rights for the minority communities of Iraq.”
The U.S.-funded nation-building efforts, coupled with assistance from the Catholic group Knights of Columbus and the government of Hungary, have rendered the town of Karamles a “story of success and we are optimistic it will survive,” Thabet also said.
Northern Iraq’s Nineveh province is the historical homeland of Iraqi Christians and home to the largest concentration of religious minorities in the country. Sinjar, the ancestral home of Yazidis, is also located in Nineveh province.
Yazidis bore the brunt of ISIS’s genocidal campaign. 350,000 of them remain displaced in Iraqi Kurdistan and 3,000 of their women, many sold into sexual slavery, remain missing, Nadia Murad, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient who survived the jihadis group’s atrocities noted during the ministerial summit Tuesday.
Haider Elias – the president of Yazda, a U.S.-based global Yazidi non-governmental organization (NGO) – told Breitbart News that the situation for Yazidis is starting to change under the Trump administration, noting that the U.S. government is trying to bring them back to Sinjar.
“These things are going to potentially change the lives of Yazidis and their view that it’s going to be a good place for them to live,” he added.
Elias noted that security has improved in Sinjar, a town decimated by ISIS jihadists when they captured large swaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014
conveniently these people were also Obama, Clinton and McCain's pro-democracy Arab freedom-fighters. Let's just air-drop a couple pallets of $100 bills on them.
You do realize the Kurds have also driven Christians and Yazidis from the Nineveh Plains, don’t you?
ts, sockmonkey wrote: You do realize the Kurds have also driven Christians and Yazidis from the Nineveh Plains, don’t you?
NO. The Lamestream hate Christians and is in league with the ragheads.
Save Christians by defeating Muslims.
Trump know an it was mentioned just a day ago at a meeting with survivors of Religious persecution at the White House a day ago, including a Yazidi Woman who with her family went through terrible things which she related to the President including the actions of Kurds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3fpmFJTMes
I wish we could take them but as soon as their kids get past 3rd grade in American schools they will grow to hate this country and try to destroy it by the time they grow up.
Thanks for posting. At the 16 minute mark, Nada Murad speaks about the Kurds.
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Trump know an it was mentioned just a day ago at a meeting with survivors of Religious persecution at the White House a day ago, including a Yazidi Woman who with her family went through terrible things which she related to the President including the actions of Kurds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3fpmFJTMes **
So how is the help coming? Nation building?
How about do some targeted refugee admissions - specifically these 2 groups (throw in South African farmers and Tommy Robinson’s family while he’s at it)
To acknowledge the levels of Christian persecution and Yazidis means to acknowledge a major problem within Islamic countries which are governed by the sharia; therefore, Christians have been left virtually ignored. That is, until Donald Trump decided to step in... two months ago, Fox News did a report that showed Christian persecution was close to “genocide levels” according to the international definition, but was being largely ignored because of “political correctness.” That’s because Muslims are persecuting Christians at an alarming rate, and to report about human rights abuses in the name of Islam is considered to be “Islamophobic.”
Thanks robowombat.
Yes, Iraqi Kurds did both.
I hesitate to admit it, but it was a fact.
But from the beginning of the assault on the Ezidi, PKK and YPG defended the Ezidis. There were over 900 PKK soldiers killed defending the Ezidi and an unknown number of YPG. The Iraqi Kurds gave no assistance to the Ezidi. It was not all Iraqi Kurds who attacked the Ezidi, to the best of my knowledge only one of the clans there did.
This is a bit confusing because both Ezidi and Kurds that I am familiar with admit that the Kurds are decended from the Ezidi.
As far as Christian persecution in Iraq, the Iraqi Kurds do not openly admit persecution of Christian. They blame ISIS. ISIS is largely guilty, but there is more subtle persecution of Christians in Iraq, particularly since the defeat of ISIS.
I had long contacts with Chaldean and Assyrian Christians in Iraq. They have their own internal divisions. Like Eastern Orthodox and Chaldean Catholics. I inadvertently stumbled into a disagreement among them once and a Catholic priest in the US requested that I remove a Tweet that I made in order to stop the arguments. I complied and later found out some of the issues. I was not involved in the discussion, but my Tweet was central by coincidence.
Part of the issue deals with attitude of Catholics there with the government in Baghdad. The Iraqi Catholic leadership want to act as intermediaries with the Muslim power brokers in Baghdad. Some of the Assyrian elements do not want anything to do with that. Even individuals there have tried to be on both sides of that argument.
But, I was told very few of the Christians in Nineveh had returned (>1 year ago). But as the historic Christians of Nineveh left in the wake of ISIS, some Iraqi Muslims were converting and refilling the pews.
VP Pence took an active part in helping them. Which I applaud him for.
I have maps showing historic distribution of each of the Christian elements and the Ezidi communities in Iraq and in N. Syria. The data source? Was local in the region and probably from government data. I flinched when I first saw the maps. But have saved them and their source URLs. They were very well done maps populated with computer based data.
You will not find religious persecution by N. Syrian Kurds. I know them. They do not tolerate it. You can blame the PKK influence for a lot of things, but that is not one of them.
In N. Syria, the Syriac Christians were a part of the largely Kurd YPG from the beginning of the battle against ISIS.
Later some of the N. Syrian Christians became the MFS group, which was all Christian and part of the SDF.
I don’t know any Chaldean Christians in Syria. There probably are some in the Damascus area.
Many of the residents in N. Syria fled Iraq into remote Northern Syria during Genocides and Massacres in Iran and Iraq. Some of them were never recognized as Syrian citizens and most of them were not supporters of Assad. Assad is brutal and evil too. He is about his power.
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