ISIS Captures Iraq's Largest Christian Town

[bryant.coleman]

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.



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).

[countryfree]

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?

[michaelwang33]

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.

[Wilikon]

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...
 

[screwUdriver]

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).

[Horse Power]

all people in euro i think overall christiani .
but no rasist and war better than all muslim in palestine got like thats.

[valvalis]

I think ISIS will not last long. Deviant ideologies like this will destroy itself.

[deepestfear]

Really sad, what a human disaster!

[bryant.coleman]

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.