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.
Amen to that!!!
You didn't answer my question.
What hope do you have that people are actually catching on?
"Religon of Peace" my wide Aunt Fanny! (What I really think I can't say in this forum)
And you didn't answer mine.
You changed the subject from whether there were any examples of the main stream media supporting Islamic people who behead others to a more general question about Iraq.
Now that we've established that - you asked: "Do you not think that the MSM has picked sides in Iraq?"
My answer to that is - I don't know.
What is your answer to my question? Do you actually believe the main stream media is rooting for Islamic people who behead others, and if so, please cite an example?
May these disgusting mohammedans burn for eternity. They are solidifying their places in Hell. Prayers to the family of the poor innocent boy.
Even the "good" Muslims have, by their declaration of themselves as Muslim, availed themselves to the Great Deceiver, in this case going by the name Allah.
This is the norm for these Islamists. While we must not be blinded with hatred, we must be enlightened with reality.
Prayers up for light in a darkened world.
This is what it's all about...the Iraq war....over there....or over here.....the choice is ours on Nov. 7th.
Neat graphic. Very clever.
So - back to the topic we were discussing. I asked the question of another person: "Oh - Ok. So your opinion is that the MSM is rooting for Islamic people who kill kids?"
And you answered "Yes."
My question to you is: please give me some examples where the reputable American main stream media (by this I mean television networks, major newspapers, radio networks, and major newsmagazines) advocated for Islamic people who kill kids.
And please don't try to change the topic to a general question about main stream media bias. Of course the media are biased. I don't think anyone is debating that.
You've made a pretty astounding assertion by answering "Yes" to my question, and I am simply asking you to provide specific examples that I can verify as factual supporting your statement.
Thank you.
My answer to that is - I don't know.
Yeah, I thought that would be your answer. Do you work in journalism?
Nope - but my brother does.
Do you?
It is not an assertion and most definitely not astounding. It follows a very simple process of logic.
That's all you will get from me today. I really don't have time.
Go get some other sucker to do your college thesis for you. LOL
Have a nice day.
For what it's worth, I finished college a long, long time ago.
It's curious how you have time to make these assertions but don't have time to provide evidence. If I was a cynical person, I might think you're making it all up.
Feel free to respond to my request after you've found an example of what you claim to exist.
Do you?
LOL. Have a nice day, Lib.
HEAR! HEAR!
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