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Yazidis Haunted by Cries for Help as Militants Bury Victims Alive
Reuters ^ | 8/20/14 | Humeyra Pamuk

Posted on 08/20/2014 6:56:03 PM PDT by marshmallow

Refugee Samo Ilyas Ali has nine children to feed but he can't focus on the future because the sounds of women and children crying out for help while being buried alive by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq often consume his mind.

Tens of thousand of Yazidis fled their ancient homeland of Sinjar and other villages to escape a dramatic push by the Sunni militants who regard the ethnic minority as devil worshippers who must embrace their radical version of Islam or die.

The refugees sit idle in camps in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.

Traumatized by Islamic State militants notorious for beheadings and mass executions, they have simply given up on Iraq and want to go as far away as possible; to countries like Germany, worlds away from their mysterious customs.

U.S. air strikes against Islamic State positions and vows by Kurdish commanders to recapture Yazidi villages provided no reassurances.

It's easy to see why.

Ten days ago, Ali and his fellow villagers were suddenly surrounded by Islamic State militants with machine guns at night. They had long beards. Some had face masks and Arabic writing on the sides of their heads.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Islam
KEYWORDS: buriedalive; iraqichristians; isisatrocities; yazidis
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1 posted on 08/20/2014 6:56:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
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Link to the full-text Free Republic thread.


2 posted on 08/20/2014 6:59:55 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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You’d think the civilized world would agree that this is one cancer that needs eradicating as soon as possible. But it seems liberals sympathize more with the cancer than they do the patient. They still think they can find a nonviolent solution.


3 posted on 08/20/2014 7:00:29 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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“They tied the hands of one woman to the back of a car and her legs to another car and they split her into two,”

These are the people the Obama Administration supported using our tax dollars.

4 posted on 08/20/2014 7:02:57 PM PDT by detective
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Is Obama invoking the field-tested, Clinton-Obama Benghazi Rule for the US to not prevent the ongoing genocide of Christians, and Yazidis in current US Ally Iraq?

BTW, the Clinton-Obama Benghazi Rule is as follows:

“1.) ALWAYS STAND DOWN WHEN MUSLIMS ATTACK,
2.) WAIT FOR THE MUSLIMS TO FINISH THEIR BLOOD SPORT KILLING, AND
3.) THEN DO NOTHING.”


5 posted on 08/20/2014 7:03:16 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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I am glad that liberal news outlets like Reuters AP etc, are now all of a sudden concerned about the atrocities , but they were not moved by things of this nature when Bush was President...

The stories of the Iraqi Christians in deep trouble came out long ago, long before ISIS took as much real estate as they have.

I can now see these same liberal media etc shortly being on board for US Troops back in Iraq which is great, but just think how much better it would be had they not openly worked against the US mission in Iraq under Bush.


6 posted on 08/20/2014 7:04:05 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge (Sarah Palin 2016 OR BUST)
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They still think they can find a nonviolent solution.

We had the solution, we won and were on our way to stabilizing that region; right up until jug-ears pulled all American Forces out and BROADCASTED the date when he would do it (not to mention arming these assholes). Once again, democrats F things up and then wonder how things "got this way".

7 posted on 08/20/2014 7:07:21 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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"They tied the hands of one woman to the back of a car and her legs to another car and they split her into two," he said beside makeshift tents as women cried.

"Have you seen anything like this? This is all because she is not Muslim and did not want to be converted.



I hope they make it out.

And if the stupid is strong with the muzz that are here?





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8 posted on 08/20/2014 7:11:56 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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"They tied the hands of one woman to the back of a car and her legs to another car and they split her into two," he said beside makeshift tents as women cried. "Have you seen anything like this? This is all because she is not Muslim and did not want to be converted

Remember this is what Obama and Obama voters support.

9 posted on 08/20/2014 7:17:13 PM PDT by sport
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To: Friendofgeorge

They’re most probably not concerned about the Christian, rather the “devil-worshipping” Yzidis. I’m sure the Libs figure the Christians have it coming to them.


10 posted on 08/20/2014 7:18:11 PM PDT by hulagirl (Mother Theresa was right)
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11 posted on 08/20/2014 7:18:43 PM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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12 posted on 08/20/2014 7:20:31 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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yes there`s that, I hear you. None of the atrocities to any group in Iraq troubled them before, children in prison, etc etc


13 posted on 08/20/2014 7:41:56 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge (Sarah Palin 2016 OR BUST)
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To: Ghost of SVR4

They don’t “wonder how it got this way”. They find something else to blame, therefore are unable to learn from their mistakes. The result is they keep making the same ones over and over again. And every time they do, they think its failure is due to not enough of the same.

But then, blaming liberals for what liberals due is futile in itself. They’ll never be accountable as long as they’re so full of self-flattery, and willingness to point fingers at others without thinking.


14 posted on 08/20/2014 7:56:54 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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it seems liberals sympathize more with the cancer than they do the patient

No, that isn't it. Remember in ‘08, ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste’? El-Presidente thrives on chaos, it is how he consolidates power. Terrorism creates chaos. They think they can deal with the degenerates after they get complete control.

15 posted on 08/20/2014 8:20:53 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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Militants??? REALLY??? Look how ludicrous that headline is. It should read: “Yazidis Haunted by Cries for Help as SAVAGES Bury Victims Alive”. If they can’t muster the courage to come up with accurate names for them, at least call them “Terrorists” - NOT “Militants”.


16 posted on 08/20/2014 8:21:24 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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every time they do, they think its failure is due to not enough of the same.

They think they are brilliant and thus cannot ever be wrong in their approach to a problem. Thus when their solutions fail it is because they did not do enough of them or take them far enough. It can never be because their idea was stupid; because they are brilliant. This causes them to do the same things again and again while expecting different results.


17 posted on 08/20/2014 8:27:21 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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“They tied the hands of one woman to the back of a car and her legs to another car and they split her into two,” he said beside makeshift tents as women cried.

“Have you seen anything like this? This is all because she is not Muslim and did not want to be converted. We barely made it.”

These Muslims need to be sent back to hell where they came from.


18 posted on 08/20/2014 8:38:19 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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**but they were not moved by things of this nature when Bush was President...**

If I recall Bush didn’t care much about the plight of Christians in Iraq, either.


19 posted on 08/20/2014 8:42:47 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: logic101.net
"the same things again and again while expecting different results."

Their modus operandi. Einstein called this the definition of insanity. I recall when Obama's trillion $ stimulus didn't do anything except make the economy worse. What was the liberals' response? He should have spent more.
20 posted on 08/20/2014 9:18:38 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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