Meanwhile... ISIS is cleansing and robbing in Iraq

[Brian4Liberty]

Meanwhile... ISIS is cleansing and robbing in Iraq

While the US media remains focused on the Ukraine and Gaza, the ethnic and religious cleansing of northern Iraq by ISIS goes mostly unreported. While it is not the duty of the US taxpayer or US military to police the world, perhaps this will serve as a lesson in the unintended consequences of reckless interventionism. Those we arm and support today often end up doing bad things in the future. Better to save the taxpayer's money in the first place, instead of continually paying for an unending chain of unpredictable events. This simple economic rule applies to foreign strife just as well as it does to domestic socialism: when you subsidize something, you get more of it.

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ISIS Robs Christians Fleeing Its Edict in Mosul: Convert, Leave, or Die

The last Christians have left one of their holiest cities, running from ISIS demands to become Muslim or be slain—but as a final indignity, their money and even crucifixes were stolen.

After being issued an ultimatum from ISIS in Mosul, some of the city’s last Christian families have fled, only to be robbed of their last possessions at ISIS checkpoints. Friday at noon was the deadline for Christian families to meet ISIS’s demands: Convert to Islam, pay an anachronistic Islamic tax for non-Muslims known as jizya, leave Mosul, or be killed. But the day before the final exodus, Christians were informed jizya was no longer an option. The order came to convert, leave, or die.

Gathered along an unlit street on the edge of Hamdaniyah, a majority Christian town on the outskirts of Mosul, large, well-dressed families of refugees from Mosul shared their stories in their only remaining set of clothes, trying to make sense of what had happened. According to the Iraq-based Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, whose field office was receiving internal refugees in Hamdaniyah, 1,500 Christian families have fled Mosul in the last four days. They were the last of the last.

Those families leaving from the checkpoints on the eastern side of the city were harassed and robbed of their possessions but ultimately allowed to leave Mosul with only the clothes on their backs and possibly cab fare. All families who fled on the last morning reported having money, belongings, jewelry, and even documents stolen from them. Women had crucifixes torn from their necks.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-its-edict-in-mosul-convert-leave-or-die.html

 

[pcosmar]

instead of continually paying for an unending chain of unpredictable events.

I am sure they are quite predictable. otherwise i agree.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I am sure they are quite predictable. otherwise i agree.

LOL. I almost used "predictable" there. It's both. It's predictable that there will be negative consequences. The exact details of the bad consequences are hard to accurately predict.

While it was easily predictable that when John McCain was taking smiling pictures with (ISIS) fighters in Syria that something bad would happen, it was harder to predict that it would result in (more) Christians being robbed and purged from Iraq.

 

[Acala]

Fortunately, the banks and military contractors escaped unharmed. So all is well.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

All going accordingly to plan... sectarian divide of Iraq, Syria, Libya.

Keep them fighting with each other while the global elites run off with all the money and resources. Like setting up the match of red ants vs. blak ants over crumbs. Happens to work in every society.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Now this isn't a very friendly move by ISIS to their new neighbors in Kurdistan. They are cutting off their water supply.

ISIS Cutting off Water Supply to Christians, Kurds in Regions They Do Not Control

The Islamic State-- formerly Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)-- has previously used water as a destructive tool to destroy crops and dams in Shi'ite territory. Now, ISIS is attempting to deprive major Christian strongholds of water through their control of pipe systems.

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the city most affected by ISIS's new campaign to deny water to as many Christians and Shi'ites in Iraq as possible is the city of Qaraqosh, currently under control of Kurdish Peshmerga forces and, thus, impenetrable to the terrorist jihadist group. Their only current connection to Qaraqosh is a water pipeline from the Tigris River, and ISIS has worked diligently to exploit this one tie by cutting off the water supply from the historic river.
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/...ristians-Kurds-in-Regions-They-Do-Not-Control

 

[Brian4Liberty]

The ethnic and religious "cleansing" of Iraq continues...

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ultimatum that Christians leave Mosul to avoid purge expired Friday at noon, driving a reported 2,000 Assyrian families out of the area.

Many of these families sought refuge in Qaraqosh, a historic Christian city outside of Mosul—though according to Bloomberg Businessweek, even this “formidable” Kurdish-protected area is falling into the grips of ISIS.

The terrorist group has cut off the area’s main water supply in an effort to further drive Christians out of the region they’ve inhabited for 2,000 years.

Katherine Gorka, president of the Council on Global Security, cited a conversation with the Syrian Catholic Archbishop Yohanna Moshe, saying he had reported that ISIS is now just 2 kilometers outside of Qaraqosh, sparking grave concern of a potential Christian genocide.

“ISIS is using water as a weapon,” Gorka says. “Christians are being eradicated. ISIS’ goal is to push the Christians out of the land that they claim as the caliphate.”

Christians fled Friday with little choice under the strict ISIS demand: Leave immediately, convert to Islam or be killed. Those who fled were robbed of all possessions with the exception of the “clothing on their backs,” according to CNN.

“Iraqi Christians tragically have been the biggest losers in Iraq’s recent meltdown,” says Jim Phillips, senior research fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at The Heritage Foundation. “Christians face a sectarian pogrom and a humanitarian nightmare.”

The number of Christians in Iraq has severely dropped since the U.S. invasion in 2003, dropping from 1.5 million to 400,000 over the last ten years according to the Washington Post.

Many of the abandoned Christian homes now have “property of ISIS” scribbled in black on the walls along with a red Arabic “n” signifying the Arabic word for “Christian,” marking a blatant branding all too reminiscent of previous genocides.
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http://dailysignal.com/2014/07/23/isis-continues-force-christians-iraq/