Iraqi Christian woman details how militants kidnapped her 3-year-old

cns ^ | September 3, 2014 | Simon Caldwell

[NYer]

MANCHESTER, England (CNS) -- An Iraqi Christian woman has described how her 3-year-old daughter was abducted by Islamist terrorists.

Christina Khider Abada was seated beside her mother, Ayda Abada, on a bus when captors from the Islamic State snatched her and took her away.

Ayda and Khider Abada discuss with residents of Ankawa, Iraq, how their daughter was kidnapped by Islamic State militants. (CNS/Sahar Mansour)

According to an account by the mother, who followed her daughter off the bus, the crying child was passed from one militant to another while Ayda Abada begged for her to be returned.

Finally, the terrorists pointed guns in the face of the mother and told her to get back on the bus or they would kill her.

Fellow refugee Sahar Mansour interviewed Ayda Abada and her husband, Khider Abada, as they circulated pictures of their daughter in Ankawa refugee camp, near Irbil, Iraq, in the hope of gaining information about the toddler's whereabouts.

In a Sept. 1 email to Catholic News Service, Mansour said the abduction occurred Aug. 24 in the Syriac Christian town of Qaraqosh, Iraq, which had fallen to Islamic State militants the night of Aug. 6-7.

Khider Abada is blind, so the family did not flee their home. They were among 30 Christian families to remain in the town as the fighters arrived.

The Islamic State fighters began to cleanse the town of Christians after about a week, mainly by putting villagers on buses, which were then driven toward Kurdish-controlled territory -- but also, according to Amnesty International -- by abducting girls and young women.

Ayda Abada said the family was first ordered by the fighters to go to a health center on the pretext of undergoing simple health checks, but they were later robbed of all their possessions and told to board a bus.

In her email, Mansour reported that the mother said she seated Christina beside her, but recalled, "then one of ISIS men came and had a look over the bus and saw my daughter Christina."

"He took her out of the bus and ISIS man went to the direction of the health center," Ayda Abada told Mansour.

"Then later, another older man from the terrorists came from the health center and was carrying Christina, and came straight to me and asked me: 'Is this your daughter?'" Ayda Abada continued.

"I said yes. Both of us, Christina and myself, were crying. I asked them many times that Christina is a little baby and she is innocent, she is just a little baby girl, and I pleaded (with) them and begged his mercy to allow my child to return to me," she told Mansour.

"I told them that she is very little, (and asked) what kind of crime she had done," she said. "Then the ISIS men told me in aggressive way: 'If you want your daughter, we will kill you. Then these men put the gun to my head and with violent tone forced me to get back in the bus."

She added: "My heart was with my daughter ... I do not know how to live without my child Christina, but ISIS men forced me to go back into the bus. All the time my heart and thought were with my daughter, Christina."

The abduction was included in a Sept. 2 report by Amnesty International called "Iraq: Ethnic Cleansing on Historic Scale: the Islamic State's Systematic Targeting of Minorities in Northern Iraq" after Ayda Abada spoke to representatives of the human rights group.

She also described the abduction of her daughter in an interview with Irbil-based Ishtar TV.

[NYer]

Ayda Abada said the family was first ordered by the fighters to go to a health center on the pretext of undergoing simple health checks, but they were later robbed of all their possessions and told to board a bus.

Familiar tale from WWII, ping!

[Da Bilge Troll]

Is it time to use the word “crusade” yet?

[NYer]

Will you lead the charge?

[Mercat]

Sounding more and more like Nazi Germany.

[BenLurkin]

[Pining_4_TX]

How about we bring all the Christians here and deport all the Muslims to Muslim countries?

[BenLurkin]

ordered by the fighters to go to a health center on the pretext of undergoing simple health checks

Yes sir. I'll be there in an hour.

(grabbing bugout bag and bugging out)

[Rodentking]

Islam - The Religion of Peace™ - Oh, and pedophilian, homosexual, rapists who are goat loving, sadistic, perverted, cowardly Baal loving homicidal maniacs who worship allah, which is another name for the Devil. There is that little thing. Oh, and darlings of most governments. Ever wonder why?

It is said there are good muslims and bad muslims. Presumably by bad muslims, one means those who would attempt to murder us, rape, pillage and plunder, cut heads off, have sex with goats, that kind of thing. Well, it is true there are good and bad muslims. The bad ones are those who have read the Koran / Quaran / Quoran and are still muslims. Good muslims are those who, well actually there are no good muslims except those without a heartbeat. There are apostates claiming to be muslims, for the most part those are okay. But, even with those, unless they are willing to stand with you against the others they are not good. Islam is a religion that follows the Devil; for Allah is another name for the Devil. Be not mistaken.

What does it take to make people realize that there is One True Triune God, the God of Jacob, the God of Abraham? Allah is not another name for God, Allah is not God or even a god, Allah is the Devil. Read the Koran / Quaran / Quoran, it conflicts with itself, its verses are time date stamped, later versions supersede earlier versions. God is truth, God is never confusion, there are no conflicts with God. God is Life and Love in perfection. Allah is hate, death, confustion, torment and destruction. See things like this, understand Allah is the Devil and these people follow him.

[bkopto]

Father, please bless and comfort the parents, increase their faith, and look after their kidnapped little one and keep her safe. If it is your will, please allow the child to return to her parents. In Jesus’s name we pray.

[Da Bilge Troll]

"Will you lead the charge?"

Lend me your time machine! lol

[NYer]

Lend me your time machine! lol

No need to use a time machine. These guys are ready and willing to serve.

Gather your troops and align your guard with them.

[terycarl]

Is it time to use the word “crusade” yet?

it is LONG overdue...this time, however, B-52 and B-1 bombers need to take the place of swords. This evil must, once and forever, be eliminated from the Earth.....Nothing good has ever come from this group and the evil that they have perpetrated throughout the ages is virtually indescribable...

[Bigg Red]

Sounding more and more like Nazi Germany.

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These filthy animals have a lot in common with the evil Nazis.

[Bigg Red]

I join in your prayer.