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Number of Christians kidnapped in ISIS offensive up to 220, Syria monitoring groups say
Fox News dot com ^ | Published February 26, 2015 | staff

Posted on 02/26/2015 4:59:17 AM PST by NorthMountain

Activists monitoring the conflict in Syria said Thursday that the number of Christians kidnapped by ISIS terrorists in their most recent offensive has risen to at least 220.

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SIS began abducting the Assyrians on Monday, when militants attacked a cluster of villages along the Khabur River, sending thousands of people fleeing to safer areas. The Syriac National Council, a Syrian Christian group, told Reuters that hundreds of Christians have fled to the province's two main cities, Al-Hassakeh and Al-Qamishli, which are held by the Kurds.

Younan Talia, a senior official with the Assyrian Democratic Organization, said IS had raided 33 Assyrian villages, picking up as many as 300 people along the way. It was not possible to reconcile the numbers, and the fate of the hostages remained unclear.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: christian; hostages; isis; persecution; syria
ISIS is not islamic; Islam is not violent.

The 0bamorrhoids tell us so ...

So obviously, Christians aren't being persecuted ...

1 posted on 02/26/2015 4:59:17 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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2 posted on 02/26/2015 5:00:39 AM PST by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: NorthMountain

3 posted on 02/26/2015 5:03:24 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: NorthMountain

And yet, Obola and his docile EXEMPT Congress-pets
are bringing tens of thousands of
the Islamic (who shall not be named)
terrorists to the Homeland.


4 posted on 02/26/2015 5:06:59 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Diogenesis
terrorists to the Homeland.

You'd think that, maybe, a "Department of Homeland Security" might be set up to prevent that sort of thing.

(Yeah, I know ...)

5 posted on 02/26/2015 5:08:27 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: NorthMountain

“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.” Isaiah 27:13


6 posted on 02/26/2015 5:27:16 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: NorthMountain

Islam must be destroyed.


7 posted on 02/26/2015 5:33:33 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: NorthMountain

They are raping babies the younger the better.
So much hurt in this world. We must put aside our emotions however.

We must destroy this enemy including their children and their children’s children and so on.

Its a paradox.


8 posted on 02/26/2015 6:43:56 AM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: NorthMountain

Praise the lord and pass the ammo

Is there something in their collective that prevents it?

What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

...certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life…

#amendment2


9 posted on 02/26/2015 7:03:06 AM PST by PGalt
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To: PGalt
Is there something in their collective that prevents it?

I'm not clear on that. By world standards, we Americans are enormously wealthy. It's a lot easier for us, economically, to buy a rifle and ammunition and learn to use it well than it is for most of the rest of the world. There may be attitudinal things as well; the American ideal of the armed citizen defending home and hearth is not shared around the world.

10 posted on 02/26/2015 7:06:53 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: NorthMountain

“There may be attitudinal things as well; the American ideal of the armed citizen defending home and hearth is not shared around the world.”

Luke 22:36King James Version (KJV)

36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.


11 posted on 02/26/2015 7:11:16 AM PST by PGalt
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To: SJackson

It’s only a few radical extremist Christians who’ve been nabbed. The vast majority of Middle Eastern Christians would never be kidnapped, burnt alive, or beheaded by DAESH. It’s just these few kooks that stigmatize everyone else./s


12 posted on 02/26/2015 1:55:40 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: SJackson

It’s only a few radical extremist Christians who’ve been nabbed. The vast majority of Middle Eastern Christians would never be kidnapped, burnt alive, or beheaded by DAESH. It’s just these few kooks that stigmatize everyone else./s


13 posted on 02/26/2015 1:55:58 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

14 posted on 02/27/2015 7:40:17 AM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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