Posted on 08/16/2014 3:57:26 PM PDT by Dave346
*Militants allegedly stormed into the small village of Kocho in northern Iraq
*They 'spent five days trying to persuade villagers to take up their religion'
*When they refused, 82 men in ancient sect reportedly shot dead yesterday
*Women and girls were allegedly kidnapped during the one-hour 'massacre'
*And today, further 312 Yazidis were allegedly killed and families abducted
*'There were corpses everywhere. Only two were alive,' says Yazidi fighter
*Comes as Britain has sent spy plane over northern Iraq to monitor crisis
*Intelligence-gathering Rivet Joint aircraft examines phone conversations
*ISIS's push to border has sent tens of thousands of Yazidis fleeing for lives
*Today, airstrikes targeted Mosul Dam, captured by militants on August 7
Islamic State militants today 'massacred' more than 300 Yazidi men - just one day after allegedly killing 82 others who refused to convert to Islam.
The insurgents stormed into the small village of Kocho in northern Iraq, where they spent five days trying to persuade villagers to take up their religion, local officials said.
When they refused, 82 male members of the ancient sect were reportedly rounded up and shot dead yesterday, while more than 100 women and girls were kidnapped.
And today, a further 312 Yazidis were allegedly murdered and their families abducted.
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they were so much safer not having personal firearms against their muslim jihadi attackers.
libtards, sleep well tonite.
Just answering the question, “What would Mohamed do?”
Last week, we were told there were 40,000 Yazidis on Sinjar Mountain facing starvation if they remained there, and slaughter by ISIS if they came down. But a team of Marines and Special Forces that helicoptered in has reported back that, with a corridor off the mountain opened up by U.S. air strikes, the humanitarian crisis is over. The few thousand who remain can be airdropped food and water. The rest can be brought out. The emergency over...Related.
Well, if all that is left are ISIS folks, then it would be OK to drop a MOAB. Not like they will kill innocent bystanders.
Unpossible, Øbama said they were safe.
Not to worry. They will be given to jihadists and used aainst us.
When the military dictators in Burma changed their name to Myanmar, the world's reporters called them Myanmar. Ditto Congo/Zaire. Now the Muslim fanatics in Syria and Iraq are calling themselves the Islamic State. Why are reporters still calling them by the outdated term ISIS? They are the Islamic State, or the Islamic Caliphate. What are Western reporters afraid of revealing? That the distilled essence of the most devout practice of Koranic Sharia Islam is being revealed today in Iraq for the world to see. The ROE or rules of engagement of the Islamic State are: Behead the men, enslave and rape the women, and all in accordance with their close reading of the Koran. And where are the mass demonstrations of the world's "moderate" Muslims against the barbaric outrages of the Islamic State? Nowhere. Instead, we hear crickets. A note to "moderate" Muslims: Your silence equals consent.
Send in the French. Bammy cares not.
I see your faith in the Republic and Mom and apple pie is as strong as mine. :-)
Just ask for lactose gluten free ice cream on top.. Of the apple pie, not Mom!
Where is the Foreign Legion? I was going to ask that earlier.
Already over committed chasing malcontents on the borders of African countries where Christians are massacred enmasse?
I don’t think so.
Too bad someone like Ross Perot didn’t setup a Book Harum relief effort,, to relieve all them fellars of having to breathe anymore,,
Coddling murderers is no way to defend the locals and, eventually, the regimes that reside over the worst Africa has to offer.
So full of promise, so devoid of humanity.
Probably massacre any remaining Yazidis in retaliation for the airstrikes and then blow up the Mosul Dam if the Kurds don't back off.
The treatment of captives by IS is also in accordance with orthodox rules of war in Islam, which permit men to be killed, while women and children are enslaved. Sex slavery – concubinage – is permitted by the sharia principles which guide IS. The Reliance of the Traveller – a respected Sunni manual of sharia law – states: ‘When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman's previous marriage is immediately annulled’ (chapter o9.13). The option of converting to Islam to avoid death or capture – which is being urged upon non-Muslims by IS – is also clearly supported: ‘Whoever enters Islam before being captured may not be killed or his property confiscated, or his young children taken captive’ (chapter o9.12).
The widespread looting of property is also validated by Islam's rules of war: ‘A free male Muslim who has reached puberty and is sane is entitled to the spoils of battle when he has participated in a battle to the end of it’ (chapter o10.1). And ‘Anyone who … kills one of the enemy or effectively incapacitates him, risking his own life thereby, is entitled to whatever he can take from the enemy, meaning as much as he can take away with him in the battle, such as a mount, clothes, weaponry, money or other’ (chapter o10.2).
The grim reality is that the fate of Christians and Yazidis in northern Iraq today all too often matches the stipulations of Islamic textbooks: non-Muslim men are killed, their women and children enslaved, and their property and possessions looted.
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