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Post by Daniel on Feb 7, 2016 9:28:38 GMT -5
ACLJ Sends Letter to Secretary of State Kerry on Islamic State Genocide Against Christians
By Jay Sekulow
February 6, 2016
Today, the ACLJ and a number of allied organizations sent a detailed legal letter to Secretary of State John Kerry detailing the ISIS genocide against Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East.
The letter begins by discussing how the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, the Holy See’s representative at the U.N. in Geneva, Pope Francis, various U.N. reports, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the European Parliament have all declared the ISIS atrocities against Christians and other religious minorities as genocide. While the European Parliament’s resolution passed unanimously specifically labeled it as a “genocide of Christians,” the Obama Administration continues to say they are concerned with acknowledging the reality of the genocide that is occurring and possible “legal ramifications.”
This designation is vitally important because it requires nations around the world to act together to stop this historic evil. The United States should not be shirking this responsibility but should be leading the way in fighting this genocide and defending the persecuted that are pushed to the brink of extinction by ISIS.
The facts speak for themselves:
In Iraq and Syria, Christians represent a small minority of the population, making up roughly 8% of the Syrian population and less than 3% of the Iraqi population. The Christian population in both countries is rapidly decreasing. For example, tens of thousands of Christians have fled Syria since the beginning of the civil war in fear for their lives. ISIS’ religion-targeted abuses include “killings, rape, kidnapping, enslavement, theft . . . destruction of religious sites . . . sexual slavery, forced conversion, ransom demands, property seizures, and forced business closures.” In Syria, ISIS has beheaded and stoned men, women, and children for blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy. Within the territories it controls, ISIS demands that Christians convert to Islam, pay a protection tax called jizya, or flee, punishing by death those who fail to comply.
ISIS’ notorious abuses are targeted primarily against religious minorities, including an estimated 200,000 Iraqi Christians in 2014. In June 2014, after ISIS seized the city of Mosul, Iraq, it demanded that Christian residents either convert to Islam, pay a tax for protection to ISIS, or be executed; further, ISIS gave the Christians less than a week (July 14 to 19) to make their decision. Several important religious sites and Christian institutions in Mosul were destroyed.
The most important part of our letter lays out the international legal analysis that requires the United States, the U.N., and the rest of the international community to recognize this as genocide and to act accordingly to stop it.
The law against genocide was first codified in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) that entered into force on January 12, 1951. The United States ratified the Genocide Convention on November 25, 1988, and enacted 18 U.S.C. § 1091 to codify the law on genocide into domestic law.
18 U.S.C. § 1091(a) lists the six specific acts that constitute the crime of genocide if committed by anyone “with the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group” regardless of whether committed “in time of peace or in time of war.” Those six acts are:
“(1) kill[ing] members of that group; (2) caus[ing] serious bodily injury to members of that group; (3) caus[ing] the permanent impairment of the mental faculties of members of the group through drugs, torture, or similar techniques; (4) subject[ing] the group to conditions of life that are intended to cause the physical destruction of the group in whole or in part; (5) impos[ing] measures intended to prevent births within the group; or (6) transfer[ing] by force children of the group to another group . . . .”
The question here “is whether ISIS’ commission of killings, rape, enslavement, destruction of places of worship, and forcible religious conversion of Christians in Iraq and Syria because of their religion constitutes the crime of genocide under U.S. law.”
In order to determine whether ISIS’ atrocities against Christians constitute the crime of genocide, ISIS must have committed any one of the six prohibited acts, such as, killing, serious bodily injury, etc., with specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, Christians because of their religion.
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Post by Daniel on Mar 10, 2016 10:19:19 GMT -5
It’s Genocide: State Department Deadline Looms Next Week
By Olivia Summers
March 17th is the congressionally mandated deadline by which the Obama Administration is to determine whether the atrocities committed by the Islamic State (ISIS) against Christians constitute “genocide.”
This deadline was imposed by the omnibus bill President Obama signed on December 18, 2015. According to the text of the bill:
Not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State . . . shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an evaluation of the persecution of, including attacks against, Christians and people of other religions in the Middle East by violent Islamic extremists . . . , including whether [the] situation constitutes mass atrocities or genocide (as defined in section 1091 of title 18, United States Code) . . . .
The State Department is also to provide “a detailed description of any proposed atrocities prevention response.”
A decision by the State Department to recognize ISIS’s systematic targeting of Christians as genocide will come none too soon for those who are being persecuted, raped, tortured, and beheaded. As we’ve stated before, Christians in Syria and Iraq have been under attack from ISIS for nearly two years. Thousands have lost their lives; thousands more have been forced to flee their homes or be killed.
As we pointed out in our letter to Secretary of State Kerry:
Testimonies of refugees who have fled Iraq and Syria and numerous news reports including eyewitnesses’ accounts clearly show that ISIS has killed and physically injured thousands of Christians with the intent of eliminating Christians as a religious group in the territories ISIS governs. This constitutes the crime of genocide under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1901(a)(1), (2) and (3).
The ACLJ has been drawing attention to this genocidal persecution - and been actively engaged by calling on the U.S. and the U.N. to join other international bodies and publically condemn ISIS’s actions. On Friday, our affiliate in Strasbourg, the European Centre for Law & Justice (ECLJ), will be presenting an oral statement before the U.N., calling for a declaration of genocide.
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Post by Daniel on Mar 12, 2016 10:22:12 GMT -5
ACLJ Demands UN Recognize Genocide Against Christians in Major Address at the UN Human Rights Council
By Olivia Summers
Doubtless you’ve heard the saying, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” History has proven this statement true – but, it has also proven true that when good men do something, evil can be vanquished.
Today we took direct action at the United Nations (U.N.), calling for it to recognize the ongoing genocide against Christians in the Middle East in a major presentation at the U.N. Human Rights Council.
The Islamic State (ISIS) is committing evil. ISIS is purposefully and methodically slaughtering Christians and other religious minorities to eradicate them.
Here at the ACLJ, we have aggressively been drawing attention – at a multi-national level – to ISIS’s genocidal acts. Just today, through our European affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice (“ECLJ”), we presented an oral intervention before the U.N. on behalf of nearly 400,000 worldwide who have signed our petitions in defense of these persecuted Christians. We stated:
The European Centre for Law and Justice calls the Human Rights Council to recognize and strongly condemn the “genocide” currently committed in Iraq and Syria against religious minorities, in particular Christians and Yazidis, by the auto-proclaimed “Islamic State”.
Thousands of persons have been killed and persecuted only because of their religion. This crime must be denounced as a “genocide”.
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Post by Daniel on Mar 15, 2016 11:18:45 GMT -5
U.S. House Unanimously Passes Bipartisan Resolution on ISIS Genocide against Christians
By Jay Sekulow
As the congressionally mandated deadline looms for the Obama Administration to make a determination whether the atrocities committed by ISIS – the Islamic State – against Christians in the Middle East constitute “genocide,” the House of Representatives has made abundantly clear that a genocide is ongoing and that dying Christians deserve critical legal protections.
Tonight, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution by a vote of 393 to 0 declaring ISIS beheadings, enslavement, mass rape, and other atrocities against Christians as genocide.
As we’ve previously reported, the resolution provides:
Whereas Christians and other ethnic and religious minorities have been murdered, subjugated, forced to emigrate and suffered grievous bodily and psychological harm, including sexual enslavement and abuse, inflicted in a deliberate and calculated manner in violation of the laws and treaties forbidding crimes against humanity, and the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide . . . the atrocities committed against Christians and other ethnic and religious minorities targeted specifically for religious reasons, are, and are hereby declared to be, “crimes against humanity”, and “genocide”.
This is a significant victory, incorporating a number of our key policy recommendations, but the fight for our brothers and sisters in Christ continues. This is why we are fighting against the genocide at the United Nations, presenting an oral intervention on behalf of more than 400,000 worldwide. This is why we’ve sent detailed legal letters to Secretary of State John Kerry. This is why we continue to mobilize our offices on Capitol Hill and around the globe to do whatever it takes to protect those persecuted by ISIS.
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Post by Daniel on Mar 17, 2016 10:23:57 GMT -5
US: ISIS in 'genocide' against Christians, other minorities
By Arutz Sheva Staff
3/17/2016
The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group is carrying out genocide against the Christian, Yazidi and Shiite minorities on its territory in Iraq and Syria, the United States declared Thursday.
"Daesh is genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology and by actions, in what it says, what it believes and what it does," Secretary of State John Kerry said.
"Daesh is also responsible for crimes against humanity against these same groups," he added, using the US government's preferred term for the group.
Washington's senior diplomat made the ruling after the US Congress voted to designate the jihadist group's murders of religious minorities genocidal, a move which has international legal implications.
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Post by Daniel on Mar 18, 2016 8:49:37 GMT -5
Secretary of State Kerry Declares ISIS Committing “Genocide Against . . . Christians” – More Must be Done
By Jay Sekulow
Today, Secretary of State John Kerry and the Obama Administration finally announced that ISIS – the Islamic State – is committing “genocide against . . . Christians” and other religious minorities in the Middle East.
This is a monumental step forward in the fight to defend Christians facing beheadings, torture, sexual enslavement, and other atrocities.
Worldwide, over 435,000 of you signed our petition and spoke out for our Christian brothers and sisters in the Middle East. And because you spoke out, the Obama Administration acted.
In his remarks declaring that ISIS is committing genocide, Secretary Kerry stated:
My purpose in appearing before you today is to assert that, in my judgment, Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control, including Yezidis, Christians, and Shia Muslims. Daesh is genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology, and by actions – in what it says, what it believes, and what it does. Daesh is also responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing directed at these same groups and in some cases also against Sunni Muslims, Kurds, and other minorities.
He went on to detail just a few of the countless atrocities committed by ISIS (which the Administration refers to as Daesh) against Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East.
We know that in Mosul, Qaraqosh, and elsewhere, Daesh has executed Christians solely because of their faith; that it executed 49 Coptic and Ethiopian Christians in Libya; and that it has also forced Christian women and girls into sexual slavery. . . .
We know that in areas under its control, Daesh has made a systematic effort to destroy the cultural heritage of ancient communities – destroying Armenian, Syrian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches; blowing up monasteries and the tombs of prophets; desecrating cemeteries; and in Palmyra, even beheading the 83-year-old scholar who had spent a lifetime preserving antiquities there.
We know that Daesh’s actions are animated by an extreme and intolerant ideology that castigates Yezidis as, quote, “pagans” and “devil-worshippers,” and we know that Daesh has threatened Christians by saying that it will, quote, “conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women.”
Secretary Kerry asserted the same legal conclusion we provided to him in our letter weeks ago, in addition to what we have been saying in meetings on Capitol Hill as we advocate for resolutions acknowledging this genocide, in oral testimony at the United Nations, and in our global advocacy for years now.
One element of genocide is the intent to destroy an ethnic or religious group, in whole or in part. We know that Daesh has given some of its victims a choice between abandoning their faith or being killed, and that for many is a choice between one kind of death and another.
The fact is that Daesh kills Christians because they are Christians; Yezidis because they are Yezidis; Shia because they are Shia. This is the message it conveys to children under its control. Its entire worldview is based on eliminating those who do not subscribe to its perverse ideology. There is no question in my mind that if Daesh succeeded in establishing its so-called caliphate, it would seek to destroy what remains of ethnic and religious mosaic once thriving in the region.
While Secretary Kerry said that he is “neither judge, nor prosecutor, nor jury with respect to the allegations of genocide, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing by specific persons,” he did adamantly emphasize that the international community must recognize what ISIS is doing to its victims, the perpetrators must be held accountable, and, while naming the crimes is important, “what is essential is to stop them.”
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Post by Daniel on Apr 10, 2016 6:49:12 GMT -5
Inconvenient Genocide
Caroline Glick
April 8, 2016
The Christian communities of Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon are well on the way to joining their Jewish cousins. The Jewish communities of these states predated Islam by a millennium, and were vibrant until the 20th century. But the Arab world’s war on the Jewish state, and more generally on Jews, wiped out the Jewish populations several decades ago.
And now the Christian communities, which like the Jews, predate Islam, are being targeted for eradication.
The ongoing genocide of Middle Eastern Christians at the hands of Sunni jihadists is a moral outrage. Does it also affect Israeli national interests? What do we learn from the indifference of Western governments – led by the Obama administration – to their annihilation? True, after years of deliberately playing down the issue and denying the problem, the Obama administration is finally admitting it exists.
Embarrassed by the US House of Representatives’ unanimous adoption of a resolution last month recognizing that Middle Eastern Christians are being targeted for genocide, the State Department finally acknowledged the obvious on March 25, when Secretary of State John Kerry stated that Islamic State is conducting a “genocide of Christians, Yazidis and Shi’ites.”
Kerry’s belated move, which State Department lawyers were quick to insist has no operational significance, raises two questions.
First, what took the Obama administration so long? Persecution of Christians in Iraq began immediately after the US-led coalition brought down Saddam Hussein in 2003. With the rise of Islamic State in 2012, the process of destroying the Christian community went into high gear. And now these ancient communities are on the brink of extinction.
In Iraq, Christians comprised 8 percent of the population in 2003. Today less than 1% of Iraqis are Christians. In Syria, the Christian community has lost between half and two-thirds of its members in the past five years.
One of the appalling aspects of ISIS’s deliberate, open targeting of Christians for destruction is how little resistance it has received from local Sunni populations. As Raymond Ibrahim from the David Horowitz Freedom Center has scrupulously documented, the local Sunnis have not stood up for their Christian neighbors, who have lived side-by-side with them for hundreds of years. Rather, in areas that have been conquered by ISIS, the local Sunnis have collaborated with their genocidal masters in raping and murdering Christian neighbors, plundering their property, destroying their churches, and driving them from their ancestral homes.
Although precise data is hard to come by, it is clear that thousands of Christians have been slaughtered. Thousands of Christian women and girls have been sold as sex slaves in ISIS slave markets, subjected to continuous, violent rape and beatings. Nuns and priests have been enslaved, crucified, mutilated, kidnapped and held for ransom, as have lay members of Christian communities. Christians have been burned alive.
For years, the administration said that the persecution doesn’t amount to genocide because according to ISIS’s propaganda, Christians are allowed to remain in their homes if they agree to live as dhimmis – that is, without any human rights, and subjected to confiscatory taxation.
But as Nina Shea from the Hudson Institute has reported, these claims were shown to be false in Mosul, Nineveh and other places where ISIS has claimed that such practices were instituted.
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Post by Daniel on May 11, 2016 8:36:58 GMT -5
Major Breakthrough: U.N. Secretary-General Places ISIS Genocide Before U.N. Security Council
By Benjamin P. Sisney
As we reported a little over a week ago, we sent a letter to the United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General as part of our recently announced 7-point plan to advance the cause of Christians and others being exterminated by ISIS (Islamic State) genocide.
In our letter, we urged Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon to recognize the ISIS genocide and to press the U.N. Security Council and other U.N. bodies to do the same. Only by first formally recognizing the genocide, we explained, could the U.N. begin taking any meaningful action to stop it.
We’re already seeing progress.
In a briefing submitted to the U.N. Security Council at a meeting held late last week, the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq has now “condemn[ed] in the strongest possible terms the continued killings, kidnapping, rape and torture of Iraqis by ISIL, which may constitute crimes against humanity, war crimes and even genocide.”
Critically, he “call[ed] on the international community to take steps to ensure the accountability of members of ISIL for the atrocious crimes they have perpetrated.”
At the meeting, Iraq’s Representative to the U.N., Mohamed Ali Alhakim, also made the case for U.N. action. Importantly, he stated that he
[w]elcome[d] the fact that United States Secretary of State John Kerry has said that he considers ISIL’s actions in Iraq to be acts of genocide and crimes against humanity, particularly those against minorities such as Yazidis, Christians and Shiite Muslims.
Alhakim then “urge[d] the Security Council to set up a specific international legal mechanism for investigating and bringing to justice the criminals of ISIL,” and called upon the Security Council to implement a number of specific resolutions.
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Post by Daniel on Jun 11, 2016 11:11:13 GMT -5
Canada: Trudeau’s liberals go “squeamish” on genocide but here’s why their excuses are “weak sauce”
Brian Lilley
Rebel Media
The Conservatives have introduced an opposition day motion calling for Parliament to recognize that what is happening to Christians, Yazidis and Shia Muslims across areas controlled by ISIS, is genocide.
While the Liberals often like to proclaim that “Canada is back”, and is a world leader, the opposite seems to be true on this issue.
Yet the Liberals continue to make excuses, claiming that they need an outside body, such as the United Nations, to tell them that the systematic targeting of people due to their ethnicity or religion, is genocide.
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Post by fearnot on Jun 11, 2016 11:21:54 GMT -5
Jay Sekulow is amazing!!
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Post by Daniel on Jun 16, 2016 10:29:32 GMT -5
UN: Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis
By Stephanie Nebehay
Jun 16, 2016
Islamic State is committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the religious community of 400,000 people through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes, United Nations investigators said on Thursday.
Such a designation, rare under international law, would mark the first recognized genocide carried out by non-state actors, rather than a state or paramilitaries acting on its behalf.
The U.N. report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, said the Islamist militants had been systematically rounding up Yazidis in Iraq and Syria since August 2014, seeking to "erase their identity" in a campaign that met the definition of the crime as defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
"The genocide of the Yazidis is ongoing," it said.
The 40-page report, entitled "They Came to Destroy: ISIS Crimes against the Yazidis", sets out a legal analysis of Islamic State's intent to wipe out the Kurdish-speaking group, whom the Sunni Muslim Arab militants view as infidels.
The Yazidis are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions.
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Post by Daniel on Jun 20, 2016 9:12:31 GMT -5
Fighting against ISIS Genocide with USCIRF and the UN
By Palmer Williams
The world has watched in horror this year as ISIS – the Islamic State – has systematically wiped out Christians and other religious minorities across Iraq and Syria. They have committed unspeakable atrocities, and their actions have clearly risen to the level of genocide. The latest reports out of Iraq and Syria show ISIS fighters executing dozens of captives by dipping them in nitric acid and children of ISIS sex slaves being treated like livestock.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has now joined our call for recognizing ISIS as perpetrators of genocide against Christians and other religious minorities, detailing the breadth of ISIS’ evil in the USCIRF 2016 Annual Report:
ISIL’s summary executions, rape, sexual enslavement, abduction of children, destruction of houses of worship, and forced conversions all are part of what our commission has seen as a genocidal effort to erase their presence from these countries. In March of this year, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry rightly proclaimed ISIL a perpetrator of genocide, which USCIRF had recommended publicly in December.
Iraq’s religious freedom climate continued to deteriorate in 2015, especially in areas under the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). ISIL targets anyone who does not espouse its extremist Islamist ideology, but minority religious and ethnic communities, including the Christian, Yazidi, Shi’a, Turkmen, and Shabak communities, are especially vulnerable. In 2015, USCIRF concluded that ISIL was committing genocide against these groups, and crimes against humanity against these and other groups.
In response to their findings, the Commission made recommendations to the U.S. government on how to best confront ISIS, including:
Call for or support a referral by the UN Security Council to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate ISIL violations in Iraq and Syria against religious and ethnic minorities, following the models used in Sudan and Libya, or encourage the Iraqi government to accept ICC jurisdiction to investigate ISIL violations in Iraq after June 2014
Encourage the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, in its ongoing international meetings, to work to develop measures to protect and assist the region’s most vulnerable religious and ethnic minorities, including by increasing immediate humanitarian aid, prioritizing the resettlement to third countries of the most vulnerable, and providing longer-term support in host countries for those who hope to return to their homes post-conflict
Develop a government-wide plan of action to protect religious minorities in Iraq and help establish the conditions for them to return to their homes
The more we find out about the historic atrocities committed by ISIS, the more pressing it is for the international community to take action to end their evil reign.
Our European affiliate, the European Centre for Law & Justice, recently sent a new international legal letter to the 47 Member States of the United Nations Human Rights Council discussing the international community's legal obligations to act to stop this genocide.
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Post by Daniel on Aug 25, 2016 18:23:11 GMT -5
ACLJ Takes Action, Confronts Another UN Office on ISIS Genocide Against Christians
By ACLJ.org
ISIS genocide against Christians and others is expanding. Ignoring it will not make it go away. In fact, ignoring it helps it spread. And the United Nations has been ignoring it for some time.
The ACLJ – through our affiliate the European Centre for Law and Justice – just delivered a legal letter to another critical United Nations office – the Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide.
Our message is clear: stop ignoring the genocide. Stop ignoring the victims.
There’s a reason we will not relent in our message. Consider this first-hand account of a genocide survivor whose farm on the outskirts of Baghdida, Iraq, had been overrun by ISIS:
They kept us as hostages . . . . [W]e were given a choice between conversion to Islam and pay tribute (jizya) or be killed, and after a while, we gathered our courage and we managed to escape . . . .
On 7/27/2014 during the visit to the area by the officials in the Iraqi government, led by the Speaker of Parliament we presented them with what happened to us and asked for their help to no avail. We did the same during the UN visit to the area again to no avail.
He continued:
I feel we are neglected in the refugee camps and no one cares about us like we are not human.
This is why we must speak up. This is why the ACLJ developed its 7-Point Plan to stop the genocide and protect the victims. This is why, as part of that plan, we send letters to pivotal world leaders at the United Nations. And this is why we cannot give up.
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Post by Daniel on Aug 30, 2016 16:22:29 GMT -5
John Kerry Encourages Media to Stop Covering Terrorist Attacks So ‘People Wouldn’t Know What’s Going On’
by Katie McHugh 30 Aug 2016
Secretary of State John Kerry wants media to stop covering terrorist attacks so “people wouldn’t know what’s going on.”
The Islamic State “kills people because of who they are,” Kerry said in Bangladesh, adding, “it will take a generation or more to solve it, but let me tell you something: We are defeating Daesh and we will defeat Daesh. We will defeat al-Shabaab and Boko Haram, and we are on the road to achieving that now.”
Kerry then echoed remarks made by State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf last February, who declared “we cannot kill our way out of this war” against the Islamic State, blaming Muslim terrorism on “root causes,” such as a “lack of opportunity for jobs.”
It’s better if the public is kept in the dark about Islamic terror attacks in their nations, according to Kerry, who warned earlier in his speech that terrorists “no respect for national boundaries.”
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Post by Daniel on Aug 30, 2016 16:43:33 GMT -5
ACLJ Takes the Obama State Department to Court to Find Out What They Are Doing to Stop the ISIS Genocide Against Christians
By Jay Sekulow
The ISIS (Islamic State) genocide of Christians and other religious minorities is undeniable. It’s horrific. And it must end.
Today, we filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State to find out what is actually being done to stop it.
After pressure from the ACLJ and others, the Obama Administration publicly recognized the “genocide against . . . Christians.” A unanimous U.S. House of Representatives has too. So have numerous international legal bodies and organizations.
The brutal ISIS genocide against Christianity is expanding beyond Iraq and Syria, just like ISIS promised it would. Now two Catholic churches have been attacked during Mass, first in France and more recently in Indonesia.
Media and on the ground reports provide heartbreaking and stomach-churning stories of ISIS’s depravity, and international leaders and organizations have begged the international community for meaningful, concrete action.
Even Secretary of State John Kerry, after recognizing the genocide, called for action. But we don’t see action. Instead, as we continually engage our government leaders, we are faced with this inescapable question:
Is the Obama Administration doing anything about ISIS’s genocide of Christians?
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Post by sevenofnine on Aug 30, 2016 20:20:43 GMT -5
What wrong Hanoi Johnny can't handle the truth of international news media LOL!
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Post by Daniel on Sept 2, 2016 17:52:35 GMT -5
Secretary Kerry and the Obama Administration’s Refusal to Stop Genocide
By Harry G. Hutchison
It is disastrous, calamitous, and shocking.
Thousands of Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities have been persecuted, killed and terrorized by the Islamic State (ISIS). Hundreds of young girls continue to be kidnapped, raped and sold as sex slaves. Thousands of other individuals have watched silently as their loved ones have been systemically slaughtered because of their faith. At the same time, Americans vainly hope for resolute leadership from the Obama Administration.
Rather than offer a forceful response to a spate of terror in Syria, Iraq, Orlando, Nice, and Paris, Attorney General Lynch suggested that the “most effective” response is expressions of peace and love. It appears that members of the Obama Administration live in the world of make believe, wherein they are prepared to offer jobs, economic opportunity, and love as the solution to ISIS jihadists who have sworn an oath of hatred and world domination.
Inaction and indecisiveness are reinforced by deflection. This pattern continues to afflict members of the Obama Administration. This week, Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking in Dhaka, Bangladesh, feebly proposed: “Perhaps the media would do us all a service if they didn’t cover [terror attacks] quite as much. People wouldn’t know what’s going on.”
That is the most ghastly pronouncement of willful blindness that I’ve ever heard.
Reality is quite different. Rather than doing “us all a service” by not covering terror and genocide, the media, in reality, would be performing a service for the Obama Administration by deflecting attention from its own inaction in fighting the scourge of terror.
Inaction persists.
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Post by sevenofnine on Sept 3, 2016 16:47:37 GMT -5
Hey Daniel I tell you one thing we got serious Syrian Christian community in Burbank and Glendate near Sony studios around that area they been telling me some serious stories about family member lot of them got out before real crisis hit they know people that stuck in Syria
I don't mind Syrian Christians they run 711 and other stores
Come on Obama real reason is they not right Arab they are Christian right you are Muslum just say it honey
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Post by fearnot on Sept 4, 2016 4:15:50 GMT -5
This statement from Kerry reminds me of Hilary asking: "What difference does it make?"
Kerry said:
"This week, Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking in Dhaka, Bangladesh, feebly proposed: “Perhaps the media would do us all a service if they didn’t cover [terror attacks] quite as much. People wouldn’t know what’s going on.”
I have no words for that!
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Post by sevenofnine on Sept 4, 2016 16:26:52 GMT -5
Remind me of what Hillary said to briefing once during Arab spring who care what difference it makes
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Post by Daniel on Sept 4, 2016 18:17:33 GMT -5
Remind me of what Hillary said to briefing once during Arab spring who care what difference it makes
Hillary: Muslims 'Have Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Terrorism'
Guy Benson
Nov 20, 2015
Behold, the woman who shall soon be crowned Queen of the endlessly self-righteous and self-congratulatory "Reality Based Community:"
"Let’s be clear: Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism."
— Hillary Clinton (@hillaryclinton) November 19, 2015
This is pure claptrap. Everyone understands that the West is not at war with Islam broadly, and that an overwhelming percentage of Muslims reject violent extremism. It's been beaten into our heads by politicians of all stripes since 9/11, and we're generally bright enough to draw the relevant distinction: "These Muslims over here are just peaceful, faithful people living their lives, whereas those Muslims over there are radical and seek to impose a toxic strain of their faith via terror and violence. We have no quarrel with the former group, which thankfully represents the large majority; the latter group must be confronted and defeated."
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Post by sevenofnine on Sept 4, 2016 19:42:45 GMT -5
I remember that tooooo
At the time she was praising Al Jazeera English news coverage on arab spring yeah I was hooked too
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Post by Daniel on Sept 8, 2016 21:22:08 GMT -5
Secretary Kerry and the Obama Administration’s Refusal to Stop Genocide
By Harry G. Hutchison
It is disastrous, calamitous, and shocking.
Thousands of Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities have been persecuted, killed and terrorized by the Islamic State (ISIS). Hundreds of young girls continue to be kidnapped, raped and sold as sex slaves. Thousands of other individuals have watched silently as their loved ones have been systemically slaughtered because of their faith. At the same time, Americans vainly hope for resolute leadership from the Obama Administration.
Rather than offer a forceful response to a spate of terror in Syria, Iraq, Orlando, Nice, and Paris, Attorney General Lynch suggested that the “most effective” response is expressions of peace and love. It appears that members of the Obama Administration live in the world of make believe, wherein they are prepared to offer jobs, economic opportunity, and love as the solution to ISIS jihadists who have sworn an oath of hatred and world domination.
Inaction and indecisiveness are reinforced by deflection. This pattern continues to afflict members of the Obama Administration. This week, Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking in Dhaka, Bangladesh, feebly proposed: “Perhaps the media would do us all a service if they didn’t cover [terror attacks] quite as much. People wouldn’t know what’s going on.”
That is the most ghastly pronouncement of willful blindness that I’ve ever heard.
Reality is quite different. Rather than doing “us all a service” by not covering terror and genocide, the media, in reality, would be performing a service for the Obama Administration by deflecting attention from its own inaction in fighting the scourge of terror.
Inaction persists.
It has been more than 5 months since Secretary Kerry declared that atrocities being carried out by ISIS against Christian, Yazidis and other minorities constitutes “genocide.” Responding to pressure from the legislative branch and from the ACLJ and others, Secretary Kerry has stated that the perpetrators must be held accountable. He has also stated that naming these crimes is important but what is essential is to stop them.
continue reading
aclj.org/persecuted-church/secretary-kerry-and-the-obama-administrations-refusal-to-stop-genocide
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