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Posted on 10/31/2006 6:09:07 AM PST by NYer
A website in Assyria is confirming that a 14-year-old Christian boy who was working a 12-hour shift maintaining an electric generator has been murdered by Muslim insurgents.
The Assyrian International News Agency said the tragedy was reported by an Assyrian language web page at www.ankawa.com.
The youth was identified as Ayad Tariq, who lived in Baqouba, Iraq, and was at work on Oct. 21 when a group of "disguised Muslim insurgents" went into the power plant shortly after his shift began at 6 a.m.
The website reported the insurgents asked him for his identification and, according to other witnesses who hid and stayed alive to report on the attack, questioned his identification card's reference to him as a "Christian."
Are you truly a "Christian sinner," they asked.
"Yes, I am Christian but I am not a sinner," he replied.
The insurgents then called him a "dirty Christian sinner," grabbed his limbs and held them while beheading him, the witnesses reported.
They were shouting, "Allahu akbar! Allahu Akbar!" during the murder, witnesses said.
An organization called AssyrianChristians.com said they are the indigenous people of Iraq, with a population that has been in the Middle East from the time of Christ.
However, they have faced a number of purges by the region's rulers over time, including the present attacks by powerful Islamic factions across Iran, Iraq and neighboring nations, officials said.
Only two generations back, Assyrian Christians made up 20 percent of the population of the Middle East, but during the Assyrian Genocide of 1915, an estimated three million Christians were slaughtered there, the organization said.
Current estimates are that there are about 2.5 million Assyrian Christians in Iraq.
Kenneth Scott LaTourette wrote in "A History of Christianity" that the Assyrian Christians became the first nation to accept Christianity, and one of the largest missionary-sending peoples in Christian history.
"The Assyrian Christians are one of the last remaining Christian communities in the Middle East," said Rev. Ken Joseph Jr., of the Assyrian Christians organization.
Tens of thousands of Assyrian Christians have fled their traditional homelands in recent months, officials confirmed.
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TROP strikes again!
Oh, my God.
Prayers for his family.
What can one say? That these people are repulsive, disgusting, abhorrent, whatever? The words don't do it justice. I simply struggle with Christ's command to love, forgive, and not to be stirred to anger or hatred.
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You will know them by their works.
Fortunately in America, we have the Second Amendment. It won't be so easy for them when they start here and I am sure they are working toward that end.
Never trust a Muslim, they have destroyed our trust.
His white robe will shine so brightly those bastards' eyes will be burned from their sockets.............
It's one of the vexing things about reporting from Iraq that the Western media is utterly ignorant about any religious distinctions finer than Christian/Muslim or Sunni/Shi'ite.
Do you have a new martyr to add to your calendar, or does the (Nestorian) Assyrian Church of the East? One can't tell from the report.
Prayers for this little boy and his family.
He is enjoying his treasure in Heaven. He has shown the Muslims the TRUE meaning of the word "martyr."
A martyr dies for his Faith. A fanatic merely kills.
Such brave warriors these Muslims are.
Why did the witnesses hide? Were they just kids too? And how many insurgents were there?
Bump
Evil, pure evil.
RIP.
That brave Christian is spending eternity in heaven. All Muslims will spend eternity in hell.
What a bunch of real HE-men. Hell awaits them all.
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