Christian Church in Iraq Mosul Burns on Orders of ISIS Islamic Jihadists –Slemani Times@Twitter
Aftermath of Church Burning –Petros il Panda@Twitter
(Catholic Courier) Christians in the middle east feel “abandoned” even betrayed by the West as Islamic Jihadists occupy large areas of Iraq and Syria said Syriac Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan–Christians “are facing the biggest challenge of their survival on the lands of their forefathers in Iraq and Syria,” Patriarch Younan told Catholic News Service by email yesterday.
“We are very anxious, even devastated because of the horrendous news that keeps coming to us from Iraq (Mosul) and surrounding areas,” Patriarch Younan wrote.
The takeover of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city by ISIS Islamic Jihadists is a catastrophe, writes Christian Caryl in Foreign Policy.com Christians now face a revival of full-blown sectarian warfare, together with a strategic and psychological nightmare for all of the American Heroes, that sacrificed so much before Obama announced the withdrawal from Iraq and subsequently departed.
For over 2000 years, Iraq had been home to a distant and vibrant Christian community, now that historic legacy appears to be coming to an end as Iraqi’s and Christians are fleeing ahead of the ISIS bloodthirsty advance–a reputation furthered by the Islamic Jihadists that used social media to distribute horrifying photos evidencing their claim that they murdered 1700 Iraqi soldiers taken prisoner during their rapid offensive.
Flashback: Remember in December 2011 when Obama claimed, “We’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self reliant Iraq,” he either lied to the American people and the world or is just so naive and self-delusional that he actually believes his own rhetoric?
Related: ISIS Radical Islamist Target Christians in Iraq –Red State
Horrifying What’s Happening to Iraq’s Christians as Jihadist Advance
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