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.
God Bless You and God Speed You.
like minds, didn't see your post.
May the powers protect you in your endeavor to keep us free.
My thanks to you on mine and every Americans behalf.
As I recall, there are many references in the bible and in history of Avenging Angels. You are one of them. Who is to say where the Lord gets those Angels and how they are put to use?
The civilized world has been much too gentle with these monsters. It's time to take them out behind the shed and give them a lesson their children's children's children will never forget.
Religion of peace my ass Mr. President and anyone else who wants to mislabel this death cult as a religion.
Really?
Can you point me to an article in the MSM advocating the beheading of Christian children?
I eagerly await your reply.
That would be, I believe, al-Gebra.
Wisecracks aside, this is sick. Just plain sick.
I hope his family can find peace, but I don't have much optimism they will.
You know the bad thing about having to kill a rabid 4 legged animal is that they are sick and don't know what they are doing. These 2 legged animals know full well what they are doing. The only way to get their attention is for them to fear us more than we fear them.
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I repeated your entire post, it's the best I've seen all day !
No Christian should go anywhere near one of those cursed countries.
Bombing trains. Bombing buses. Bombing planes. Flying planes into buildings.
Slicing heads off while singing religious hymns.
Dragging bodies through streets.
Using "charities" to pass money to terrorists. The Sears Tower Plot. Slavery in Sudan,
Killing converts to Christianity. Cutting your head off if you don't convert.
Torturing and killing kids in a school. Nicholas Berg. Daniel Pearl. Margaret Hassan. Paul Johnson.
Calling for the death of the Pope. Rioting over cartoons.
Just to name a few reasons why normal people don't trust the proponents of the ideology
of death and destruction.
Before this is over, there will be very few Muslims left in the world. It is a virulent army, not a religion, and eventually be treated as such (at least I hope).
And behold a pale horse. And he who sat upon him, his name was death. And hell followed with him.
Where the hell did I say that they were specifically advocating the beheading of Christian children? You got a lot more than was intended from my post.
It really doesn't matter. The child's martyrdom makes him a saint for all of us.
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