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40,000 Iraqis stranded on Sinjar mountain after Islamic State death threats [SEEN ANY PROTESTS?]
Daily Telegraph ^ | 6 August, 2014 | Richard Spencer

Posted on 08/06/2014 10:54:12 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy

Tens of thousands of members of Iraqi religious minority groups are dying of heat and thirst on Mount Sinjar, human rights groups say, after death threats from Islamic State - formerly Isis

Tens of thousands of members of Iraqi religious minority groups driven from their homes for fear of the jihadist group Islamic State are dying of thirst and heat on a desert mountainside in the north of the country, according to the United Nations and human rights groups.

Some 40 children have already died from the heat and dehydration, the UN children’s organisation Unicef says, while upwards of 40,000 more are sheltering in the bare mountains, without food or water or access to supplies. It says 25,000 children may be stranded.

Hundreds of adults, particularly men but also women and children, are already feared to have been killed or abducted by the group, which now surrounds their hiding place.

Most of the refugees, who fled their home city of Sinjar when it was seized by Islamic State at the weekend, are members of the Yazidi community. The Yazidis are an offshoot from Zoroastrianism and the “Peacock Angel” at the centre of their beliefs is associated by some Sunni Muslims with Satan.

This makes them especially vulnerable to the sectarian attacks practised by Islamic State, which refers to them as “devil-worshippers”.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: childkilling; iraq; isis; liberalhypocrisy
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OK, so where are all the NGOs, the massive demonstrations on the streets of Paris, London, Rome, Stockholm, NY, Chicago etc, etc??

When will the UNSC meet over this little incident?

When will BBC, SkyTV, CNN, ABC, CNBC and all the others show picture after picture with dying, emaciated, dehydrated children? (They will have 25 000 to chose from so an embarrassment of abundance, one would think.)

1 posted on 08/06/2014 10:54:12 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
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Where are the UN peace keeping forces in Iraq? :::crickets:::


2 posted on 08/06/2014 10:55:58 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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I posted this thread under the War on Terror topic, but at the moment the whole WOT is a sad joke. (And anyway, we know who the terrorosits are so the name is and has always been a misnomer.)


3 posted on 08/06/2014 10:56:08 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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4 posted on 08/06/2014 10:56:20 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Where are the media reports?

Our leftwing press will be happy to be complicit in genocide as long as the 'right' people are dying.

5 posted on 08/06/2014 10:57:25 AM PDT by skeeter
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The UN, John Kerry, Bella Clintoon, Obozo and the now gang will be protesting in the streets and hash tagging to protect these innocents.


6 posted on 08/06/2014 10:57:31 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Obama's Storm of Illegal immigrants, aka, new democRat voters and his 2016 FDR 3rd term attempt!)
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Yes, according to the “libs” preferably Jews, and Christians, but any other non-muslims are quite alright as well.
7 posted on 08/06/2014 11:00:45 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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Iraqis flee Sinjar to escape the Islamic State pic.twitter.com/Ro9GlrTPh9

@RorateCaeli

8 posted on 08/06/2014 11:03:37 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Crickets. < / International Community >


9 posted on 08/06/2014 11:03:48 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The GOP-e scum enlisted Democrats to steal the Republican primary. The GOP-e can go to Hell.)
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Thought provoking picture for survivalists.

10 posted on 08/06/2014 11:04:52 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The GOP-e scum enlisted Democrats to steal the Republican primary. The GOP-e can go to Hell.)
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Nothing from our caliphate-in-chief, nothing from the vatican, inc., no mention from pravda of washington. The silence and inaction says it all. Maybe the missionaries should branch out into arms smuggling, and help level the playing field, or find someone to finance a new crusade, because if they are expect help from western Christians, they are apparently SOL. Try Israel or Russia for help, at least they don’t seem to be as hostile towards Christians.


11 posted on 08/06/2014 11:05:16 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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12 posted on 08/06/2014 11:09:08 AM PDT by TheDon (Californians are losing their right to keep and bear firearms one firearm at a time.)
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There’s no angle to blame this on the Joos, so there’s no story.


13 posted on 08/06/2014 11:09:58 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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Obama most responsible for his failure to negotiate, or require, a sensible sized contingency force of US personnel to remain in Iraq, and for his repeated failure to attack the ISIS/Islamic State forces as they formed convoys in Syria, convoyed all over northern Iraq, and were sitting ducks on several occasions before they overran so much territory.

And Obama has also refused to send military aid to the Kurds.


14 posted on 08/06/2014 11:10:24 AM PDT by Will88
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We only care about kidnapped girls from Nigeria.


15 posted on 08/06/2014 11:10:34 AM PDT by kabar
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She knew the girls were forced into prostitution. How inane.


16 posted on 08/06/2014 11:25:41 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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Not even a hashtag.


17 posted on 08/06/2014 11:26:57 AM PDT by dfwgator
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There is no peace with Islam, only death, destruction and misery.

It must be eliminated from the earth.

18 posted on 08/06/2014 11:28:06 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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All those Muslim countries can’t stop ISIS but they thought they could fight Israel?


19 posted on 08/06/2014 11:28:41 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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OBAMA: hey...these ISIS guys are only the jayvee team... no worries. /s

MOOSHELL: Let them eat cake.


20 posted on 08/06/2014 11:29:38 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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