al Qaeda inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi Army Humvee at checkpoint outside Beiji, some 250 kilometers north of Baghdad
Posted on 08/12/2014 7:28:50 AM PDT by SJackson
al Qaeda inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi Army Humvee at checkpoint outside Beiji, some 250 kilometers north of Baghdad
Recently, Pope Francis declared that “the persecution of Christians today is even greater than in the first centuries of the church, and there are more Christian martyrs today than in that era.”
The slaughter of as many as 500,000 Christians in South Sudan since 2011 may not have received the attention it deserved. However, now the religious cleansing of Christians in Iraq resulting from Islamic jihadists’ conquest of lands Christians had called home since the first centuries A.D. cannot be ignored.
In a region where Christians and Muslims had previously lived in relative peace side by side for centuries, the past 10 years have witnessed some 1.1 million Christians being killed or driven from their homes. Since June, the fall of northern Iraq to the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has created more than a half-million refugees — both Christian and non-Christian.
The Islamic State blitzkrieg across northern Iraq has captured large caches of advanced weapons left by the United States for the Iraqi military. Tanks, armored vehicles, surface-to-air missile launchers, warehouses of machine guns and ammunition and even Black Hawk helicopters — captured in Samarra, Fallujah, Mosul and Tikrit — are in the hands of the Islamic State. Now the world’s most brutal terrorists have some of the most up-to-date military equipment available. In addition, the Islamic State has looted banks of some $500 million, seized five oil fields and Iraq’s largest electricity-generating dam — providing the means for self-funding the expansion of Islamic terrorist rule. Islamic State-controlled assets now generate $3 million in daily income and are valued at more than $2 billion — unprecedented in the annals of terrorism
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The mohammedans do not make anything. They do not export anything. They do not add value to anything.
Ultimately, they are takers and destroyers. If it were not for M.E. oil, they would still be desert nomads.
0bama always supports Islam against Western Civilization.
Of course he won’t take effective action against ISIS: They’re his guys!
What you said, but I might add that, IMHO, I believe that 0bama was FORCED into making this decision to authorize intervention in Iraq.
1Sa 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
1Sa 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
ISIS? I thought this would be about St. Louis.
Thanks for the quotes.
They are very appropriate for our world today.
One does not talk with Muslims. One must kill them before they kill us.
They force us to kill them because they are members of a particularly violent war cult.
When dealing with BARBARIC SUB-HUMANS like ISIS, it all goes back to the quote: “It’s better to be feared than respected.”
Obama still thinks the proper approach is to apologize and pander to gain their RESPECT...
Pathetic.
These are people who butcher babies and slaughter thousands. Why does the world need Obama, or anyone else, promoting a moral imperative? That should be self-evident.
That's because he wants them to succeed.
Somehow that dark-complected woman in the grey suit in the upper-right quadrant of the photo looks like she should be wearing a blue dress and a beret.
Her lips tell it all.
One might say prophetic. [:-)
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