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.
Indeed sir. Remember also they were burning Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic, and Anglican churches after the Popes speech. The muslims make no distinction between us Christians.
Maybe so. I was just wondering if it really happened.
And it will never get reported, because it doesn't advance the chosen story line.
Islamo Facists...Murderers
Racist Psychos.
They are Bent on the total destruction and death of ALL
Jews and Christians.
They are Rapists, Liars,Criminals,Perverts,sodomites,Butchers.
A Religion of Peace? What a Crock.
Well, I'm getting tired of people who make outlandish claims that in my experience are untrue. I've never heard or seen or read any report in the reputable mainstream press supporting beheading, yet that's what you seem to be saying.
This is something I've seen with increasing frequency - making outrageous and false claims that go unchallenged. Look above to Earthdweller's reply No. 113 - he or she answers the question, "Oh - Ok. So your opinion is that the MSM is rooting for Islamic people who kill kids?" with one word: Yes.
I find that amazing.
Does anyone actually believe that? Do you? And if so, please cite a reference.
Please see my reply No. 127.
Thanks.
How do you interpret the Luke passage?
What planet have you been on since 9/11?
Look around...everything is politics in the MSM but the MSM does not reflect life or reality. The bias tract that the liberal MSM has taken is in support of Islamofascists and they are blood thirsty killers. Period.
well, we'll still have our little debates over the Bible and with our Orthodox friends :) But at the end of the day, we shake hands. When we face a common enemy, the great evil, we have no alternative but to stand together.
Do you not think that the MSM has picked sides in Iraq?
I find astoundingly amazing that you find it amazing.
Google media bias...ok. I don't have time to play around with this BS...
Fellow freepers..I hope you have time to "enlighten" AFB about the mountains of evidence to support liberal/dem/MSM bias....LOL.
You're changing the topic.
You don't have the time to provide specific examples but you do have time to continue to make unsubstantiated claims.
Fine.
Whatever.
I'd love to see the Pope begin procedings to canonize Richard Couer de Leon, and Godfroi de Bouillion; then declare Islam anathema, and Muhammad Antichrist. And I'm not even Catholic. Declare the crusade and unleash the dogs of war!
Your point is taken, but I would remind you of a famous line from a famous hymn (not equating it with scripture of course), but: "As He died to make us holy let us die to make men free, His Truth is marching on."
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