Little seen headline: Islamic State jihadists kidnap hundreds of Christians and begin mass executions
Top news story: ISIS extremists ransack Mosul museum, destroy ancient artifacts
Today's review of the mainstream media shows few words written about the genocide, but reams of articles and hours of news video reporting the destruction of material objects.
For background, read President Obama Compares Christians to Islamic Terrorists and even Ignores Christian Genocide (focuses on furthering Gay Agenda)
Also read President Obama Ignores Hate Crimes Against U.S. Christians
And read Muslim Beheads Christians in New Jersey per Koran
-- From "ISIS Onslaught Engulfs Assyrian Christians as Militants Destroy Ancient Art" by Anne Barnard, New York Times 2/26/15
A rampage reminiscent of Tamerlane or Genghis Khan, perhaps, but in reality, according to reports by residents, activist groups and the assailants themselves, a description of the modus operandi of the Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate this week. The militants have prosecuted a relentless campaign in Iraq and Syria against what have historically been religiously and ethnically diverse areas with traces of civilizations dating to ancient Mesopotamia.
Assyrian leaders have counted 287 people taken captive, including 30 children and several dozen women, along with civilian men and fighters from Christian militias, said Dawoud Dawoud, an Assyrian political activist who had just toured the area, in the vicinity of the Syrian city of Qamishli. Thirty villages had been emptied, he said.
The assault on the Assyrian communities comes amid battles for a key crossroads in the area. But to residents, it also seems to be part of the latest effort by the Islamic State militants to eradicate or subordinate anyone and anything that does not comport with their vision of Islamic rule — whether a minority sect that has survived centuries of conquerors and massacres or, as the world was reminded on Thursday, the archaeological traces of pre-Islamic antiquity.
The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, has presented itself as a modern-day equivalent of the conquering invaders of Sennacherib’s day, or as Islamic zealots smashing relics out of religious conviction.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Activist: ISIS now holds 262 Christians hostages in Syria" by Laura Smith-Spark, CNN 2/26/15
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the number of Assyrian hostages seized over three days at 220, in a statement released Thursday.
They were taken from 11 villages in the Tal Tamer area in al-Hasakah Province, the monitoring group said. Its information indicates that ISIS has taken them to the Mount Abdelaziz area, southwest of Tal Tamer.
Besides those captured by ISIS militants, thousands of families have been forced to flee their homes, he said.
ISIS has proven, time and again, its willingness to ruthlessly go after minority groups which don't subscribe to its extreme take on Islam.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Militants abduct more Christians, smash ancient artifacts" by Zeina Karam and Sinan Salaheddin, Associated Press 2/26/15
The destruction of artifacts in the Mosul museum is part of a campaign by IS extremists who have destroyed a number of shrines — including Muslim holy sites — to eliminate what they view as heresy. They also are believed to have sold ancient artifacts on the black market in order to finance their bloody campaign in the region.
In the video released Thursday, militants used sledgehammers and drills to smash and destroy several large statues, which are then shown chipped and in pieces. The five-minute video also shows a black-clad man at an archaeological site in Mosul, drilling through and destroying a winged-bull — an Assyrian protective deity — that dates to the 7th century B.C.
Irina Bokova, director general of the U.N.'s culture agency UNESCO, said in a statement that she was "deeply shocked" at the video. She said she asked for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council be convened "on the protection of Iraq's cultural heritage as an integral element for the country's security."
"I condemn this as a deliberate attack against Iraq's millennial history and culture, and as an inflammatory incitement to violence and hatred," Bokova said.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "ISIS kills 15 Assyrian Christians, charity reports" by Ed West, Catholic Herald 2/26/15
Aid to the Church in Need reported that the Islamist group murdered a number of Assyrians it took from Hassake governorate in Syria.
Abbot Emanuel Youkhana passed on the news to various Catholic agencies working in the area, and said the number still being held totalled 350.
The charity reports that another source claimed that people in the Sunni Arab village of Bab Alfaraj have been told to attend “a mass killing of infidels” at Mount Abdul Aziz tomorrow.
There are no families left in the 35 Assyrian Christian villages of the area. The only people left in the region are Christian militia fighters who are fighting alongside Kurdish troops
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From "ISIS kills 15 Christian hostages in Syria, beheads woman" posted at ANSAmed 2/26/15
The news was given by Archimandrite Emanuel Youkhana to the Catholic organization Aid to the Church in Need on Thursday. . . . One woman was beheaded in the village Tel Hormidz and two men were shot to death. There is no information at the moment on how the other 12 were killed. Youkhana added that the number of those known to have been taken hostage had risen to about 350. In addition to the hundreds previously reported, some 80 inhabitants from the Tel Jazira village, 21 from Tel Gouran, 5 from Tel Feytha and 3 from Qabir Shamiya have been taken. Almost all are being held in the Sunni Muslim village Um Al-Masamier.
. . . One source has said that a mass execution is being planned for Friday, February 27, in the mosque of Bab Alfaraj, a Sunni village in the area. There has been no confirmation of the news.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Islamic 'Call to Prayer' at National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
And read Florida School Teaches Islam Including Prayer Rugs
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Friday, February 27, 2015
Monday, September 09, 2013
American Kids Killed by Chemical Weapons: Abortion
President Obama and myriad other pro-abortion politicians are grieving over hundreds of Syrian children killed by chemical weapons, yet not a tear is shed for more than 3,000 American children killed daily. And while horrifying images of these Syrian victims are flooding American airwaves, the media blackout of horrific images of American victims of abortion continues.
For background, read of Barack Obama's opposition to protection for infants born alive during abortion procedures. and also listen to Barack Obama argue that abortionists can be trusted to care for live babies born during an attempted abortion (audio):
And yet, More Abortionists Admit Killing Kids After Birth
UPDATE 3/29/14: Supreme Court hears how abortifacients (chemical weapons) murder American children
-- From "WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Obama administration releases horrifying footage of nerve gas attacks in Syria" by Bill Hutchinson, New York Daily News 9/9/13
Horrific new videos of Syrian men, women and children in the throes of a sarin gas attack were released Sunday even as [Syrian] dictator Bashar Assad continued to deny he ordered the atrocities.
The 13 videos . . . include ghastly images of victims sprawled on a floor foaming at the mouth and convulsing and gasping for air.
“Those videos make it clear to people that these are real human beings, real children, parents being affected in ways that are unacceptable to anybody, anywhere, by any standards,” [Secretary of State John] Kerry said.
“The question now is for Congress to resolve this week is, are there consequences for a dictator who would have used those weapons to gas to death hundreds of children?” [White House Chief of Staff Denis] McDonough said on “Fox News Sunday.”
A total of 13 videos were released in what the government is hoping is a convincing argument.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Rep. Wasserman Schultz: As a mother, I have a searing imprint of chemical weapons victims" posted at CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper 9/4/13
[Democratic Party Chair Debbie] Wasserman Schultz said House members should put aside partisan politics, and pay close attention to national security when debating authorization for action in Syria.
Wasserman Schultz also said the U.S. has a "moral imperative" as "the strongest nation on earth" to respond when a dictator violates an international norm against using chemical weapons.
"As a mother, to me, I have an indelible searing imprint on my mind after seeing the pictures of those babies lined up. We have a moral responsibility to respond," said Wasserman Schultz.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Democratic Party Chair Heartbroken by Kids Killed in Syria, But Supports Abortion" by Lauren Enriquez, LifeNews.com 9/6/13
[Florida Congresswoman Debbie] Wasserman Shultz has spent her career ensuring that chemical and other forms of death continue to be protected by law and carried out on the babies in her own country.
Wasserman Schultz, like any compassionate human being, is appalled by the use of chemical weapons on children. But she has created a false dichotomy by working to ensure that American babies can be killed by the chemical weapon of a saline abortion, in which a woman’s uterus is filled with a saline solution that eats away at the inside and outside of the baby until it is burned to death in utero.
Wasserman Schultz also works to ensure that other babies can be killed by the RU-486 chemical abortion, in which the mother ingests a pill that cuts off her baby’s food supply and starves it to death, before ingesting another pill that makes her uterus contract to expel the dead baby into toilet water, to be flushed out of existence. No one gently dresses these fatally-wounded children in white shrouds, lining them up that we may see and mourn for them, and honor their lives. They are flushed, tossed, and ground out of existence.
To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.
From "Why will the media show dead Syrian children but not aborted babies?" by Kristi Burton Brown, LiveActionNews 8/23/13
. . . the media is thoroughly covering the disastrous violation of human rights in Syria. They are openly demonstrating what it looks like when the basic right to life is ignored and trampled upon.
Why, then, the basic failure by the media to show what real abortion is? Abortion is just as real as the deaths in the Syrian conflict. It is tragic, horrific, and a daily violation of basic human rights here in the United States – as well as around the world.
Pictures of babies who have suffered through abortions are “graphic, disturbing” images. But they, too, would serve to “raise awareness of the plight of innocent people in a war that shows no sign of ending.”
. . . And so we must call on the media to speak the truth and to show the truth on abortion. Planned Parenthood – and the rest of the abortion industry – is a “regime that is killing us,” one child at a time. Innocent children struggle for their lives every single day in their mothers’ wombs. The media must be the voice of the silent, the downtrodden, the oppressed. They must speak out for those who cannot tell their stories to the world.
To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.
From "God’s red line extends beyond Syria" by Dr. Robert Jeffress (pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas), Dallas Morning News 9/8/13
Why is genocide in Syria intolerable while infanticide in our country is not only permissible but considered a constitutional right? By what moral authority do we deny the leader of another nation his “freedom of choice” to exterminate his own people, yet empower our own citizenry to kill their children and even provide hundreds of millions of tax dollars to Planned Parenthood to carry out the executions?
I can hear the liberal howl across North Texas as I type these words. “There is no moral equivalency between Assad’s heinous acts against his own people and the personal, painful choice of a mother to terminate a pregnancy.” But, alas, there is.
Both the Assad atrocities and abortion represent attacks against the most vulnerable members of society: children. We are understandably horrified by the pictures of endless rows of Syrian children’s corpses. But if we laid side by side the remains of the millions of children who have been aborted in the last 40 years — many during the second and third trimesters with discernible features — I imagine there would be an even greater outcry from the American people.
To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.
For background, read of Barack Obama's opposition to protection for infants born alive during abortion procedures. and also listen to Barack Obama argue that abortionists can be trusted to care for live babies born during an attempted abortion (audio):
And yet, More Abortionists Admit Killing Kids After Birth
UPDATE 3/29/14: Supreme Court hears how abortifacients (chemical weapons) murder American children
-- From "WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Obama administration releases horrifying footage of nerve gas attacks in Syria" by Bill Hutchinson, New York Daily News 9/9/13
Horrific new videos of Syrian men, women and children in the throes of a sarin gas attack were released Sunday even as [Syrian] dictator Bashar Assad continued to deny he ordered the atrocities.
The 13 videos . . . include ghastly images of victims sprawled on a floor foaming at the mouth and convulsing and gasping for air.
“Those videos make it clear to people that these are real human beings, real children, parents being affected in ways that are unacceptable to anybody, anywhere, by any standards,” [Secretary of State John] Kerry said.
“The question now is for Congress to resolve this week is, are there consequences for a dictator who would have used those weapons to gas to death hundreds of children?” [White House Chief of Staff Denis] McDonough said on “Fox News Sunday.”
A total of 13 videos were released in what the government is hoping is a convincing argument.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Rep. Wasserman Schultz: As a mother, I have a searing imprint of chemical weapons victims" posted at CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper 9/4/13
[Democratic Party Chair Debbie] Wasserman Schultz said House members should put aside partisan politics, and pay close attention to national security when debating authorization for action in Syria.
Wasserman Schultz also said the U.S. has a "moral imperative" as "the strongest nation on earth" to respond when a dictator violates an international norm against using chemical weapons.
"As a mother, to me, I have an indelible searing imprint on my mind after seeing the pictures of those babies lined up. We have a moral responsibility to respond," said Wasserman Schultz.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Democratic Party Chair Heartbroken by Kids Killed in Syria, But Supports Abortion" by Lauren Enriquez, LifeNews.com 9/6/13
[Florida Congresswoman Debbie] Wasserman Shultz has spent her career ensuring that chemical and other forms of death continue to be protected by law and carried out on the babies in her own country.
Wasserman Schultz, like any compassionate human being, is appalled by the use of chemical weapons on children. But she has created a false dichotomy by working to ensure that American babies can be killed by the chemical weapon of a saline abortion, in which a woman’s uterus is filled with a saline solution that eats away at the inside and outside of the baby until it is burned to death in utero.
Wasserman Schultz also works to ensure that other babies can be killed by the RU-486 chemical abortion, in which the mother ingests a pill that cuts off her baby’s food supply and starves it to death, before ingesting another pill that makes her uterus contract to expel the dead baby into toilet water, to be flushed out of existence. No one gently dresses these fatally-wounded children in white shrouds, lining them up that we may see and mourn for them, and honor their lives. They are flushed, tossed, and ground out of existence.
To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.
From "Why will the media show dead Syrian children but not aborted babies?" by Kristi Burton Brown, LiveActionNews 8/23/13
. . . the media is thoroughly covering the disastrous violation of human rights in Syria. They are openly demonstrating what it looks like when the basic right to life is ignored and trampled upon.
Why, then, the basic failure by the media to show what real abortion is? Abortion is just as real as the deaths in the Syrian conflict. It is tragic, horrific, and a daily violation of basic human rights here in the United States – as well as around the world.
Pictures of babies who have suffered through abortions are “graphic, disturbing” images. But they, too, would serve to “raise awareness of the plight of innocent people in a war that shows no sign of ending.”
. . . And so we must call on the media to speak the truth and to show the truth on abortion. Planned Parenthood – and the rest of the abortion industry – is a “regime that is killing us,” one child at a time. Innocent children struggle for their lives every single day in their mothers’ wombs. The media must be the voice of the silent, the downtrodden, the oppressed. They must speak out for those who cannot tell their stories to the world.
To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.
From "God’s red line extends beyond Syria" by Dr. Robert Jeffress (pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas), Dallas Morning News 9/8/13
Why is genocide in Syria intolerable while infanticide in our country is not only permissible but considered a constitutional right? By what moral authority do we deny the leader of another nation his “freedom of choice” to exterminate his own people, yet empower our own citizenry to kill their children and even provide hundreds of millions of tax dollars to Planned Parenthood to carry out the executions?
I can hear the liberal howl across North Texas as I type these words. “There is no moral equivalency between Assad’s heinous acts against his own people and the personal, painful choice of a mother to terminate a pregnancy.” But, alas, there is.
Both the Assad atrocities and abortion represent attacks against the most vulnerable members of society: children. We are understandably horrified by the pictures of endless rows of Syrian children’s corpses. But if we laid side by side the remains of the millions of children who have been aborted in the last 40 years — many during the second and third trimesters with discernible features — I imagine there would be an even greater outcry from the American people.
To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.
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