Posted on 12/25/2016 7:23:15 PM PST by SJackson
Around Christmas 2015, numerous voices within the international community raised their concerns that the persecution of Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities in Syria and Iraq reached the threshold of "genocide" under international law. The movement was highly visible in the United States, led by the Knights of Columbus, followed by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention Russell Moore, and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Despite growing consensus on the issue in the United States, the U.S. Government has remained silent for months.
Europe, however, has witnessed a markedly different response to the same legal question: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the European Parliament (EP) adopted resolutions recognizing the persecution against Christians as genocide on January 27 and February 4, respectively. The PACE resolution condemned the Daesh atrocities as genocide and called upon the member states to "act on the presumption that that Da’ish commits genocide and should be aware that this entails action under the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide." The resolution further emphasized the states’ obligation to prevent genocide including preventing their nationals from participating in the genocidal acts. The EP resolution urged "the members of the UN Security Council to support a referral by the Security Council to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in order to investigate violations committed in Iraq and Syria by the so-called "ISIS/Daesh" against Christians, Yazidis and religious and ethnic minorities."
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After we kick the Muslim out in January, we and our new president can help you.
Muzzies, though, have reservations.
Well, the Europeans should certainly know genocide when they see it.
And ignore it as they always do..........
Tell them a new sheriff will shortly be in town.
We tell them: “If you can’t arm yourself, run like hell out of there”.
Are Americans even aware that there are Christians in the Middle East, and that they have been there for 2000 years?
Sometimes I think some Americans think we are the only Christians, in a Christian Nation, who will be “raptured” out of here and miss all the bad stuff because we’re “special.”
We never came to your aid because we are too divided in the West to have a coordinated policy toward Islam and we are too embarrassed to call ourselves Christians. But take heart, we now have a true leader in Trump who will not forsake you. Your prayers and ours have been answered.
Over the last few days I've run into several people here who claim there were no Christians in Palestine before the 20th century.
Give them this message from obama, leader of the Most Powerful Nation in the History of Planet Earth: “Sorry, Christians, you’re sh*t outta luck.”
They used to have Lebanon. How’d that work out?
That will all change come January 20,2016 when the new sheriff comes to town.
With one DJT taking over come January 20, the Christians know he has their backs.
Do some Mid East history for your friends.
Matthew 10:28
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
I wasn’t.
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