Jews Condemned Whilst Christians Are Decimated And Dispersed

August 1, 2014 by David Singer
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As the war between Israel and Hamas enters its fourth week – the frenzied condemnation of Israel for exercising its inherent right of self-defence continues to dominate the media coverage of the conflict.

Ishaan Tharoor writing in the Washington Post wonders why:

 

“The world is transfixed by the conflict in Gaza, as the death tolls of both Palestinians and Israelis killed in the fighting continue to rise. It has animated global public opinion and sparked protests in myriad far-flung cities.

 

But as the rockets and bombs fall, a deadlier war next door rolls on. The Syrian civil war has claimed 170,000 lives in three years; this past weekend’s death toll in Syria was greater than what took place in Gaza. By some accounts, the past week may have been the deadliest in the conflict’s grim history. Meanwhile, the extremist insurgents of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), have continued their ravages over a swath of territory stretching from eastern Syria to the environs of Baghdad, Iraq’s capital; the spike in violence in Iraq has led to more than 5,500 civilian deaths in the first six months of this year.”

 

M D Harmon writing in the Portland Herald criticises this media blockout:

 

“Why should it matter if a nearly 2,000-year-old way of life practiced by millions is being exterminated and no one will do anything to halt it?

 

Perhaps because it teaches a wider lesson about what the civilized world faces when it confronts rampant Islamic extremism.

 

In much of Iraq and Syria today, millions of Christians, whose ancestral presence there predates current Muslim majorities by centuries, are being scrubbed out of their homes.

 

But, while some in the wider church and the media are paying attention, getting war-weary Western nations to take effective action seems impossible. Even humanitarian aid isn’t being widely discussed.”

 

The newly-declared Islamic State (IS) – which includes Mosul – Iraq’s second largest city – already exceeds the area of Great Britain.

 

Sharia law has been imposed in Mosul – where Christians have lived since shortly after the death of Christ.

 

Christians were given 24 hours to leave Mosul or convert to Islam and pay a tax – or die.

 

The letter “N” (for “Nazarene”) has been daubed on Christian homes to denote they are available for looting or destruction.

 

BBC News reported on 28 July:

 

“A senior Christian cleric in Iraq, Patriarch Louis Sako, estimated that before the advance of IS, Mosul had a Christian community of 35,000 – compared with 60,000 prior to 2003.

According to the UN, just 20 families from the ancient Christian minority now remain in the city, which Isis has taken as the capital of its Islamic state.”

 

Harmon poses this question:

 

“Across the Middle East, a long history of hard-won co-existence faces extinction from a belief system devoted to domination, and this time in control of an “Islamic state.” Will it again strike us directly, as it did 13 years ago this Sept. 11?”

 

Nuri Kino – reported on Fox News – confirms the tragic situation in Syria and identifies those engaged in persecuting these ancient Christian communities:

 

“Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, also has been nearly emptied of Assyrians, Armenians and other non-Muslims…

 

… The prideful tone in which the perpetrators speak whenever I have interviewed them –both Al Qaeda and IS —- is equally shocking. These are mostly disgruntled young men who were teetering on the edges of society in their own homelands, often in European suburbs, and now believe they have the power to do whatever they want in the name of Islam. They can claim any house in IS-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria as their own, and tell the owners to either leave or risk being killed. They can take any woman as their wife…

 

… At least 700, 000 non-Muslims — Christians, Mandeans, Yezidis and others — have left Iraq by now. No one knows how many have left Syria.”

 

Nina Shea reports in the Christian Post:

 

“ISIS has set out to erase every Christian trace. All 30 churches were seized and their crosses stripped away. Some have been permanently turned into mosques. One is the Mar (Saint) Ephraim Syriac Orthodox Cathedral, newly outfitted with loudspeakers that now call Muslims to prayer. The 4th century Mar Behnam, a Syriac Catholic monastery outside Mosul, was captured and its monks expelled, leaving behind a library of early Christian manuscripts and wall inscriptions by 13th-century Mongol pilgrims.

 

Christian and Shiite gravesites, deemed idolatrous by ISIS, are being deliberately blown up and destroyed, including on July 24, the tomb of the 8th-century B.C. Old Testament Prophet Jonah, and the Muslim shrine that enclosed it.”

 

Patrick Coburn does not mince his words in The Independent:

 

“It is the greatest mass flight of Christians in the Middle East since the Armenian massacres and the expulsion of Christians from Turkey during and after the First World War.”

Yet the media shows little interest in exposing the decimation and dispersal of the Christian communities in Syria and Iraq.

 

Google reports on the Israel-Gaza war outnumber reports on the ISIS-Christian conflict by about 20:1.

 

The West is equally as disinterested at this appalling ethnic and religious cleansing and forced transfer of Christians.

 

An impotent United Nations shows its unwillingness to intervene.

 

Israel meanwhile ensures that Jews will never find themselves in the same boat as the abandoned and hapless Christians.

 

David Singer is a Sydney Lawyer and Foundation Member of the International Analysts Network

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8 Responses to “Jews Condemned Whilst Christians Are Decimated And Dispersed”
  1. david singer says:

    Readers might like to watch and listen to this plea made in the Iraqi Parliament on 5 Auust 2014

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  2. david singer says:

    This interview by Alan Jones with Iraqi Christian Association Leader in Australia Dr I Naoum on 12 August highlights the ethnic and religious cleansing being visited on Iraqui Christians by their IS Islamic oppressors.
    http://www.2gb.com/article/alan-jones-dr-intesar-naoum

    Alan Jones – Dr Intesar Naoum
    http://www.2gb.com
    Alan talks to the head of the Iraqi/Christian association about the plight of Christians in Iraq

  3. Jay McQueen says:

    Christians in Middle East generally in Syria, Iraq and Iran identify themselves as Aramaic speakers the same language as spoken by Jesus. They are ingenious to these lands and part of the cultural and religous fabric before the invasion of Islam. They been victimised, brutalised, and many have been killed because of their faith. But yet, rest of world is completely ignorant of this fact, as days go buy the extinction of Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriacs race is completely being replaced by Islam. Not extreme just plain Islam as is has written in Quran and haddiths. The jihadists are only following the teachings of their prohet this must be acknowledge as such. I pray for those who are currently being beheaded including children, women and men who only crime is their faith in Jesus Christ. Rest in peace. We love you…N symbol.

  4. ben says:

    Good to see Singer take up the case of Syria. Expect he will be present at protests against the regime in Syria. Hope Zionists in Australia will take up the issue and join the campaign.

    • David Singer says:

      ben

      I am not taking up the case of Syria.

      I am taking up the case of Christian communities in Syria and Iraq being ethnically and religiously cleansed by Moslems.

      Are you concerned at what is happening to those communities?

      • Ben says:

        Thank you for your reply. I apologise, I had wrongly understood there was a broader concern for Syria.

  5. Lynne Newington says:

    …..but I still didn’t approve of capitalizing on the image of the Jews on the way to the gas chambers with a little boy, a look of terror on his face and hands in the air in an act of fear and submission to raise money.
    A picture of the Holy Innocents for Catholics would have served just as well.
    Sorry.

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