Madad21 said:
Leader: ISIS is ‘Systematically Beheading Children' in 'Christian Genocide'
"Christianity in Mosul is dead, and a Christian holocaust is in our midst," said Mark Arabo, a Californian businessman and Chaldean-American leader. In an interview with CNN's Jonathan Mann, he called what's happening in Iraq a "Christian genocide" and said "children are being beheaded, mothers are being raped and killed, and fathers are being hung."
Prayer is greater then anything else you can do!!
The reader should note that the president of Iraq has charged that ISIL/ISIS/The Islamic State (or whatever they're calling themselves this week) has been supported from the beginning by the GCC(1). Money and weapons have been funneled through offices in Istanbul, Turkey to provide military support for their actions as they have been from the beginning to support al Qaeda's actions in Syria.
In 2013, when the FUKUS(2) alliance was defeated in its plans to invade Syria, the GCC was extremely unhappy with America. There were rumors of increased gas prices, dissolution of diplomatic relations, and the creation of another more well equipped terror group similar to al Qaeda. None of that happened except the latter. We see today the fruit of the abandonment of invasion scenarios against Syria.
In Afghanistan prior to the American led invasion following 911, there was an active and thriving Christian community, churches, seminaries and schools of higher learning. Today nothing remains. The same is nearly true in Iraq. Those Christian communities that still exist are now refugees. Nothing remains of their organized communities. In Egypt, following the American led coup d'etat and support for the Muslim Brotherhood, the Coptic Christians have suffered grievous loss of their infrastructure as well.
Wherever America goes in the Middle East, persecution death and destruction of Christian communities follows. This is due either to deliberate policy, indirect support for anti-Christian Muslim factions, or ineptitude. Since the pattern continues to persist, one must consider that these policies are deliberate.
"The United States is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
While the American role in these persecutions may be argued by some to be questionable, one thing cannot be denied - Americas meddling in the affairs of the Levant is of NO advantage to us at all. The only arguments to support US intervention there are humanitarian and to secure oil reserves and trade routes.
We've obviously botched our humanitarian efforts and caused innocent Christian suffering because of negligence. Since there's been no change in oil prices or supply, we may consider that our inept foreign policy and clumsy(3) military efforts are ineffectual at best and an inspiration to abuse human rights at worst. (My vote is for the latter.)
Just in case someone is opposed to my accusations of America here, it should be remembered that NONE of this was going on prior to American involvement. None of it at all.
American leadership has yet to learn that NOBODY EVER wins a game of monkey-in-the-middle, but that's exactly what we've been doing. In my opinion, its time for America to withdraw and assume the role of distant spectator.
and that's just me, hollering from the choir loft...
(1) GCC - Gulf Cooperation Council
Member nations include; Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(2) FUKUS alliance - term invented by the eastern press and used most often by Russian journalists, the group of nations includes;
France, United Kingdom and the United States
(3) clumsy military - clumsy because NO permanent advantage or solution has been forthcoming despite the investment of blood and fortune
