Iraq Isis Crisis: Medieval Sharia Law Imposed on Millions in Nineveh Province

[bryant.coleman]

Those towns captured are predominantly Sunni areas. Which are ready to support Sunni militants. The Shiite militants are now ready take this terrorist. Let wait and see who will win.

Although the region is predominantly Sunni, there was a significant Shia minority until the ISIS captured it. Most of the Shias have now fled to the safer regions to the South. Partially agreed with what you said. The local Sunni support for the ISIS is very noticeable. The Iraqi army won't be able to do anything unless they find a way to prevent this from happening.

[tvbcof]

WTF is going on there? The ISIS just captured 3 more cities today. ...

You clearly don't spend enough time in the U.S. Army war college studying Col. Ralph Peters.  Nobody should be surprised by this, and everyone should consider Rand Paul's assertions that ISIS is armed by the U.S.

http://thehill.com/policy/international/210168-us-has-been-arming-isis-in-syria-sen-paul-claims

[jaberwock]

WTF is going on there? The ISIS just captured 3 more cities today. ...

You clearly don't spend enough time in the U.S. Army war college studying Col. Ralph Peters.  Nobody should be surprised by this, and everyone should consider Rand Paul's assertions that ISIS is armed by the U.S.

http://thehill.com/policy/international/210168-us-has-been-arming-isis-in-syria-sen-paul-claims

Almost everybody knows that ISIS is funded by US. But that funds meant to fight Assad not to conquer Iraq. It could be US mistake or ISIS was instructed by Saudi Arabia to conquer Iraq first.

[bryant.coleman]

Almost everybody knows that ISIS is funded by US. But that funds meant to fight Assad not to conquer Iraq. It could be US mistake or ISIS was instructed by Saudi Arabia to conquer Iraq first.

ISIS is being funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, two of the USA's most trusted allies. The direct US funding mostly went to the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which is a different organization. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are Sunni Arab-dominated monarchies, and they want to establish Sunni Arab governments in both Syria and Iraq.

[tvbcof]

Almost everybody knows that ISIS is funded by US. But that funds meant to fight Assad not to conquer Iraq. It could be US mistake or ISIS was instructed by Saudi Arabia to conquer Iraq first.

ISIS is being funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, two of the USA's most trusted allies. The direct US funding mostly went to the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which is a different organization. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are Sunni Arab-dominated monarchies, and they want to establish Sunni Arab governments in both Syria and Iraq.

How the fuck would you know where the support was supposed to go much less where it actually went?  Heard it on TeeVee?  Anyway neither Saudi Arabia nor Qatar would do a thing without at least asking for our permission, and probably mostly outsource all the strategic decisions to us anyway with unusual exceptions.

It is fairly clear that Mosul was abandoned and fell without a shot mainly because that's what we instructed.  Only a true simpleton would believe that 30k well armed and Iraqi military ran in terror from 1k ISIS leaving a damp yellow streak (and all of those yummy Western supplied weapons.)  I wonder if it might be a cover story for how it came to be that ISIS is driving around in U.S. made humvees.

[Cranky4u]

Like democracy, social order cannot be imposed but must come the community itself. Anything else is just imposed until the occupier leaves...

[bryant.coleman]

Here is the latest map:



The entire Western border of Iraq is now controlled by the ISIS. 

[ThomasCrowne]

Talk about a serious shitstorm!  Feel terrible for all the refugee's fleeing for their lives.  Literally.

[Wilikon]

A Christian father who watched his wife and daughter get brutally raped by members of the militant group, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) because he couldn’t pay them a poll tax in Mosul, Iraq, killed himself under the weight of the trauma this past weekend.

A report from the Assyrian International News Agency said ISIS began enforcing Islamic laws in the northern Iraq city which they overran on June 10.

Dr. Sallama Al-Khafaji of the Iraq High Commission for Human Rights said the incident happened on Saturday after ISIS began asking Christians in Mosul for a poll tax.

“In one instance, ISIS members entered the home of an Assyrian family in Mosul and demanded the poll tax (jizya). When the Assyrian family said they did not have the money, three ISIS members raped the mother and daughter in front of the husband and father. The husband and father was so traumatized that he committed suicide,” said the report.

“The Christians have told me that they cannot pay this tax,” Dr. Al-Khafaji told AINA, “and they say ‘what am I to do, shall I kill myself?’”

Four Christian women were also reportedly shot dead by ISIS members because they were not wearing veils.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-father-commits-suicide-after-isis-members-rape-wife-and-daughter-in-front-of-him-because-he-couldnt-pay-poll-tax-122220/

[bryant.coleman]

A Christian father who watched his wife and daughter get brutally raped by members of the militant group, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) because he couldn’t pay them a poll tax in Mosul, Iraq, killed himself under the weight of the trauma this past weekend.

Most of the remaining Christians in Iraq are (or were) residing in the villages to the North-east of Mosul. They speak the Assyrian language, which is a very endangered tongue. The ISIL offensive will eradicate the last vestiges of the once mighty Assyrian culture.