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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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To: ScaniaBoy

Apparently there needs to be an angle to blame the Jews, and advantage Obama or the US isn’t interested. Obama has also done a lot to help establish the Greater Caliphate and any aid here might impede that.


21 posted on 08/06/2014 11:30:38 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: trisham
More innocent civilians have already been killed on Sinjar than have died on the Gaza and not a peep from the all of the world's governing bodies.

Tens of thousands more may soon die die because of inaction.

Where is the outrage?

It seems there is only outrage when people fighting back against Jihadi aggression get the upper hand and are in the process of kicking Jihadi butt.

Then the entire worlds Kumbaya industry spools up with a propaganda blitz about the poor Islamists who are facing a humanitarian disaster.

It's sick.

22 posted on 08/06/2014 11:36:05 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Blue Highway
Where are the UN peace keeping forces in Iraq?

Building rocket launchers in Gaza.

23 posted on 08/06/2014 11:37:27 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Heart Breaking.


24 posted on 08/06/2014 11:41:54 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: ScaniaBoy

From the MSMipedia entry:

ISIS: Freedom fighters struggling to restore religious freedom in Iraq.


25 posted on 08/06/2014 12:08:00 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: factoryrat
nothing from the vatican, inc.

You mean other than the 21,000+ stories on the topic?


26 posted on 08/06/2014 4:28:43 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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