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by Raymond Ibrahim
• January 31, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Escaped
eyewitnesses have reported that ISIS places Iraqi and Syrian
Christians in cages or coffins and sets them on fire.
- ISIS
persecution of Christians "fits the definition of ethnic
cleansing." — Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of
Genocide, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial.
The Syriac Orthodox Church of St. Ephrem in Mosul,
Iraq, before if the captured by the Islamic State (left), and after.
When a 1,400-year-old Iraqi Christian monastery was destroyed by the
Islamic State (ISIS) most of the world condemned the demolition -- except
for spokesman for the U.S. military's Operation Inherent Resolve, Col.
Steve Warren.
"Thousands [of Iraqi Christians] have been killed, hundreds of
thousands have been forced to flee," said CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an
interview with Col. Warren the other week. "There is legitimate fear
-- you're there in Baghdad -- that the long history of Christians living
peacefully, productively in Iraq, is coming to an end. How worried should
we be about the Christian community in Iraq?"
Col. Warren's response: "Wolf, ISIL doesn't care if you're a
Christian ... We've seen no specific evidence of a specific targeting
towards Christians."
by Jagdish N. Singh
• January 31, 2016 at 4:00 am
- Many extremist
Islamic groups are still shielded by states such as Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia, Turkey and Iran. These countries have so far not severed
their links, overt or covert, with these outfits.
- The United
States and other members of the free world need to take corrective
measures not only against terrorist groups but also against the
states that sponsor them.
- Washington, in
its relationship with Tehran and Islamabad, among others, is on the
wrong track. Its approach towards a rogue Iran is not likely to
"bring it in from the cold," but to embolden it even
further in its various terror activities the world over.
In 2014, this photo of Muslim ISIS supporters in
India's Tamil Nadu state went viral on Twitter.
Sadly, major world powers, including the United Nations, have not
appeared serious about fighting terrorism or the Islamic State (ISIS, IS)
or similar terrorist groups.
UN Security Council Resolution 2170 (August 15, 2014) called on
member-states to take "national measures to prevent fighters from
traveling from their soil to join the IS and deny it any arms or
financial support. The resolution also "expressed readiness to
consider putting on the sanctions list those who facilitated the
recruitment and travel of foreign fighters."
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