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Title: ISIS Captures Iraq's Largest Christian Town
Post by: bryant.coleman on August 07, 2014, 11:40:28 AM
http://www.aina.org/news/20140807051254.htm

Jihadists took over Iraq's largest Christian town Qaraqosh and surrounding areas Thursday and sent tens of thousands of panicked residents fleeing towards autonomous Kurdistan, officials and witnesses said. Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militants moved in overnight after the withdrawal of Kurdish peshmerga troops, who are stretched thin across several fronts in Iraq, residents said. "I now know that the towns of Qaraqosh, Tal Kayf, Bartella and Karamlesh have been emptied of their original population and are now under the control of the militants," Joseph Thomas, the Chaldean archbishop of Kirkuk and Sulaimaniyah, told AFP.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/02/09/world/09nineveh_CA2/09nineveh_CA2-articleInline.jpg

Meanwhile, children are dying in Sinjar.

Death Toll for Yazidis Stranded on Mountain Rising By the Minute

http://www.aina.org/news/20140807020123.htm

The death toll among thousands of Yezidi civilians on Shingal mountain is rising every minute, says Rudaw reporter, with dead bodies lying everywhere among the rocks. "The children and elderly who have died are so many that they cannot be counted," said Barakat Issa, Rudaw reporter. "In the past four days I have witnessed the death of many."Since Saturday thousands of Yezidi Kurds from Shingal and surrounding villages have taken shelter on a mountain, fleeing the capture of their town by militants of the Islamic State (IS).


Title: Re: ISIS Captures Iraq's Largest Christian Town
Post by: countryfree on August 07, 2014, 09:22:07 PM
I remember when at school, I learned about religious wars in Europe 400 years ago, we were taught those things didn't happen anymore. At last, it's not in Europe. Shall I add, not yet?


Title: Re: ISIS Captures Iraq's Largest Christian Town
Post by: michaelwang33 on August 08, 2014, 02:53:27 AM
President Obama is Muslim and he does not support Israel. I don't think he has anything to do with the ISIS directly however his early withdrawal from Iraq certainly contributed to this happening.

Obama has announced that he may authorize air strikes however I doubt he will actually go through with them as he has let others cross "red lines" many time with no consequence.


Title: Re: ISIS Captures Iraq's Largest Christian Town
Post by: Wilikon on August 08, 2014, 03:16:32 AM


Funny how threads with Hamas as victims have a nice amount of views here. Christians as victims? Not so much. "Christians were worse 1000 years ago!" blah blah blah...
 ;)






Title: Re: ISIS Captures Iraq's Largest Christian Town
Post by: screwUdriver on August 08, 2014, 03:28:29 AM


Funny how threads with Hamas as victims have a nice amount of views here. Christians as victims? Not so much. "Christians were worse 1000 years ago!" blah blah blah...
 ;)

For some reason many people are sympathetic towards terrorists. I think it probably has something to do with social media (you can promote videos that are very much one sided that pretend to be balanced, and can buy likes and comments on posts to make it look like others agree with you).


Title: Re: ISIS Captures Iraq's Largest Christian Town
Post by: Horse Power on August 08, 2014, 04:48:16 AM
all people in euro i think overall christiani .
but no rasist and war better than all muslim in palestine got like thats.


Title: Re: ISIS Captures Iraq's Largest Christian Town
Post by: valvalis on August 08, 2014, 04:59:53 AM
I think ISIS will not last long. Deviant ideologies like this will destroy itself.


Title: Re: ISIS Captures Iraq's Largest Christian Town
Post by: deepestfear on August 08, 2014, 06:07:54 AM
Really sad, what a human disaster!


Title: Re: ISIS Captures Iraq's Largest Christian Town
Post by: bryant.coleman on August 08, 2014, 06:23:01 AM
Funny how threads with Hamas as victims have a nice amount of views here. Christians as victims? Not so much. "Christians were worse 1000 years ago!" blah blah blah...
 ;)

In Palestine, most of the victims were Muslims, so they have almost 2 billion people supporting them. In Iraq, the victims are mostly Yazidis, Shabaks, Assyrians.etc who don't have sizable populations outside Iraq. So no one supports them.