Christians Bear the New Yellow Star -- Courageous Shi'ites Takes Their Side (wears cross on tv)

Eponymous Flower ^ | July 31, 2014

[NYer]

(Baghdad) The Islamic State (IS) has a new yellow star to identify the Christians. The identification of the members of the other "religions of the book" of Christians and Jews is an invention of Islam, where it has an old tradition that goes back to the late Early Middle Ages. Jews and Christians had to each carry their own clothes, so that they were recognized by all Muslims. Therefore, the yellow color is due in clothing for the Jews, which was first documented in the 9th century in  Islamic occupied Sicily.The yellow Star of David in the Nazi Reich to designate  Jews was borrowed from with Islam.

The Islamic State  identifies the houses of Christians in Sunni Islamist occupied Iraq with the Arabic letter N. It stands for "Nazarene", the followers of Jesus of Nazareth.

The Iraqi journalist Dalia Al-Aqidi (Fig. 1), made a dramatic gesture. The spokesperson for the Iraqi television station Al Sumaria  intentionally put a chain with a cross around her neck and criticized the "political-Islamist fascism" before the camera.  She took a  position against the anti-Christian genocide by the Islamists. Already, several Iraqi Muslims are putting their own life on the line to defend the Christians publicly against persecution. Because, "who is silent on the question of justice is a mute devil", said Dalia Al-Aqidi about  her demonstrative step.

"The Exodus of Christians is a Loss for All"

Dalia Al-Aqidi  demonstratively  wears a cross around her neck on TV

Al-Aqidi explained why she appeared on television with the cross around her neck: not only because in the city of Mosul, which has since June been in the hands of the jihadists "Caliph" Al-Baghdadi, a large Christian community has recently disappeared, that shrank recently to a few thousand members. She did it, as the journalist explained, "for the good of the whole country" because the Islamists are a threat to all.

In an interview with the Lebanese daily Al Nahar, the journalist urged her compatriots and the West, to ask the question: "What benefit could  history and culture draw from a return to a dark past?" The exodus of Christians who are faced with the alternative of flight or death, is a heavy loss to all. "The Christians are a part of the indigenous population of this country. Without them we can not go on. "

The Islamists accused Al-Aqidi of  being a "non-believer". The journalist replied that she "firmly believes", that "Islam is a religion of tolerance." Therefore, the Islamists are the "infidels." The journalist said: "The unbelievers are you. You are the apostates, you are the head hunter and executioner. I am a simple person who defends the rights of children of her own country. "

According to Al-Aqidi, Islamism has led  "moderate Muslims like me, to be ashamed for their religion."  It was true that "the fear has led many to silence, but I will not be silent in the face of injustice." The journalist called on all to follow her example.

The "N" of Christians

The journalist Dim Sadek, a Lebanese Shiite appeared on TV with the "N".

Another Shii'te is  now  sending a comparable signal. This is the well-known Lebanese TV presenter Dima Sadek (Photo 2). The Lebanese television station Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI) showed  her ostentatiously wearing a T-shirt imprinted with the Arabic letter ن (N), with which the Islamists characterize the Christians.  Before Sadek began with the reading of the news, she said: "From Mosul to Beirut, we are all Christians."

The Logo of the TV channel

To support the initiative of Al-Aqidi and Sadek, the Lebanese television station has changed its logo in LB ن and launched a campaign to draw attention to the plight of persecuted Christians who was supported immediately by thousands of people on Twitter and Facebook. "The darkest place in hell is for those who remain neutral in times of great moral crisis," said Al-Aqidi  in her TV appearance. The letter "N", with which Christians are marked, has become an outcry.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
image: Traditio Catholica / LBCI /

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

Link to Katholisches....

[NYer]

TITLE SHOULD READ: Christians Bear the New Yellow Star -- Courageous Shi'ites Take Their Side

Ping!

[Chainmail]

Brave women! It is inspiring to see some Muslims risk their lives to protect their Christian neighbors.

[liberalh8ter]

Wow.....we know from history what will follow.

[j.argese]

The sheep will die peacefully. The courageous will fight, some will die, some will live. In the end, we will all die. Some on the field of battle, others in their beds, others up a chimney.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Absolutely right. I find it a bit disconcerting when I see posters here often expressing views that call for the outright genocide of Muslims the way the Nazis did for Jews. I despise Radical Islam and Islamists as much as the next person, and Islam as a religion when followed to the letter is an appalling one, but ordinary Muslims are not all bad people.

[Viennacon]

I will commend her for this courageous act. But she had better watch out, because I have no doubt Baghdadi’s acolytes may turn those Obama-paidfor weapons on her.

[sauropod]

Wow.

This article is making me rethink some things. ‘Pod.

[C19fan]

Actually ISIS hates the Shia more than Christians. Shia to them are actual apostates.

[pierrem15]

In the end, we will all die.

That's why, as Aristotle said a long time ago, the question is not whether one lives or dies but whether one lives well.

"Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. Captain, that is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave."-- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Very brave women-- may God protect them.

[Biggirl]

It is just ISLAM, NO such thing as RADICAL Islam, period.

You would be SHOCKED by what the Koran has to say.

[pierrem15]

The branch of Shia Islamic theology (led by Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani in Iraq) still studies Aristotle's and Galen's logic (in Arabic and Persian translation). It is the only branch of Islam that maintains a connection to the same Greek intellectual heritage that we do, and it is the only branch where some clerics also read Hobbes, Locke and other Western enlightenment thinkers.

They reject any explicit political role for clerics, because they know mixing politics and religion makes the former impossibly cruel and the latter a whore.

They are bitterly persecuted in Iran because of this.

[markomalley]

Very nice

[TexasRepublic]

Yeah, those 99.9999% violent muslims give the tolerant ones a bad name!

[NYer]

It is the only branch of Islam that maintains a connection to the same Greek intellectual heritage that we do, and it is the only branch where some clerics also read Hobbes, Locke and other Western enlightenment thinkers.

Additional insight in the following article.

In interpreting God's laws, there is a principle in Islamic jurisprudence which states, "Reason is not a legislator." In other words, the only laws that apply to you are the ones God gave you. Reason has no authority or status in creating laws, or even in interpreting them.

The political consequences of such a view are easy to see: If reason is not a legislator, then why have legislatures at all? They have no standing, because reason has no standing.

When Islam Abandoned Reason