Posted on 09/10/2014 9:16:27 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
As the sun rose over my dusty village on Aug. 3, relatives called with terrifying news: Jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) were coming for us. I’d expected just another day full of household tasks in Tel Uzer, a quiet spot on the western Nineveh plains of Iraq, where I lived with my family. Instead, we scrambled out of town on foot, taking only our clothes and some valuables.
After an hour of walking north, we stopped to drink from a well in the heart of the desert. Our plan was to take refuge on Mount Sinjar, along with thousands of other Yazidis like us who were fleeing there, because we had heard a lot of stories about Islamic State brutality and what they had done to non-Muslims. They’d been converting religious minorities or simply killing them. But suddenly several vehicles drew up and we found ourselves surrounded by militants wearing Islamic State uniforms. Several people screamed in horror; we were scared for our lives. I’ve never felt so helpless in my 14 years. They had blocked our path to safety, and there was nothing we could do.
The militants divided us by gender and age: One for young and capable men, another for girls and young women, and a third for older men and women. The jihadists stole cash and jewelry from this last group, and left them alone at the oasis. Then they placed the girls and women in trucks. As they drove us away, we heard gunshots. Later we learned that they were killing the young men, including my 19-year old brother, who had married just six months ago.
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Of course she didn’t say that.
She said it in Arabic, or whatever her native language is.
What you read is how the the author, Mohammad A. Salih, translated it into English.
Arm yourselves, train, and never be a defenseless again. Ultimately your personal security rests with you.
I want to leave this country altogether. This country is no place for me anymore. I want to go to a place where I might be able to start over, if that is even possible.
Come to America, through Mexico walking across the Rio Grande if possible, where you will not need a visa or any documentation.
This is propaganda.
Years ago I read something that made a lot of sense. It said that immigrants from other countries tend to be more Christian than the country they came from- and immigrants from Christian countries tend to be more Protestant than the country they came from.Obama has allowed most of this ancient Christian population to be slaughtered. An American who was president would be ashamed to his bones of having done that. But no small part of the persecution of Christians in Iraq happened back when Bush was POTUS - and he had an American army in Iraq at the time. I don’t know how he sleeps at night over that.
It doesn’t read like a 14 year old wrote it. It reads like a propaganda piece written by an adult trying to stir up support for a political cause.
To be clear...I think ISIS does this and more evil acts that we don’t even know about....I just am cautious about believing this particular story as being a true account of an actual person’s experience.
Perhaps. I am not sure whose propaganda this piece promotes or the motive though. I see no reason myself to disbelieve it.
I missed the part where she explained why they were not armed...or do DEMOCRATS run that society?
Propaganda.
This is the 2014 version of ripping babies out of incubators.
She didn’t say “gender” in any language.
No, she probably said “sex”.
And the guy who wrote the article followed his employer’s Style Guide and wrote “gender”.
-— My comment on the WaPo thread: -—
Excellent! We need to spread the word, and pull the ostriches’ heads out of the sand.
Agree, but I believe this story is fake. Why would captors allow them to keep cell phones?
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