Dozens of Yezidi Villagers Killed As Deadline to Convert to Islam Expires

[Sally]

It really is difficult to believe that there are others in this world who would kill people because they refused to convert. However, we are learning that this is the case.

Dozens of Yezidi Villagers Killed As Deadline to Convert to Islam Expires
By RUDAW 22 hours ago

DUHOK, Kurdistan Region—Militants of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) raided the Yezidi village of Kucho, killing 80 men and taking a number of women and children hostage after a deadline to convert to Islam expired on Friday, villagers said.



According to Rudaw sources, the IS gave the residents of Kucho a deadline to convert to Islam or face consequences. The deadline expired today.

Kucho is located 80 kilometers southeast of Shingal where thousands of Yezidis fled and took refuge on a nearby mountain as the town fell to the IS earlier this month.

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Dozens of Yezidi Villagers Killed As Deadline to Convert to Isla

 

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It really is difficult to believe that there are others in this world who would kill people because they refused to convert. However, we are learning that this is the case.

Dozens of Yezidi Villagers Killed As Deadline to Convert to Islam Expires
By RUDAW 22 hours ago

DUHOK, Kurdistan Region—Militants of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) raided the Yezidi village of Kucho, killing 80 men and taking a number of women and children hostage after a deadline to convert to Islam expired on Friday, villagers said.



According to Rudaw sources, the IS gave the residents of Kucho a deadline to convert to Islam or face consequences. The deadline expired today.

Kucho is located 80 kilometers southeast of Shingal where thousands of Yezidis fled and took refuge on a nearby mountain as the town fell to the IS earlier this month.

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Dozens of Yezidi Villagers Killed As Deadline to Convert to Isla

Sally you don't understand the BEAUTY OF ISLAAAAM It is being done for THE BENEFIT
of the Yazidi women and children. Under shariah law those lucky ducks get to come under
the PROTECTION of -----muslim males. Lucky them

 

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Yezidi leader pays a call on American Congress...

Yezidi Leader Tells Congress: ‘Because We Are Not Muslims...We Are Being Burned Alive’
December 11, 2015 – Chaldean and Yezidi leaders described the genocide of their people at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to members of Congress Wednesday at a hearing on assisting victims of ISIS. “Because we are not Muslims, and because our path is the path of peace… we are being burned alive,” Mirza Ismail, chairman of the Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International, told members of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.

Ismail went on to describe the desperate plight of the Yezidis, an indigenous ethno-religious group from Kurdistan who are being targeted by ISIS because they are not Muslim. “There are thousands of young Yezidi women, girls, and even children, who as I speak have been enslaved and forced into sexual slavery. These girls are subjected to daily, multiple rapes by ISIS monsters,” he testified. “According to many escaped women and girls whom I talked to in Northern Iraq, the abducted Yezidis, mostly women and children, number over 7,000. Some of those women and girls have had to watch 7-, 8-, and 9-year-old children bleed to death before their eyes, after being raped by ISIS militia multiple times a day,” said Ismail. “I met mothers, whose children were torn from them by ISIS. These same mothers came to plead for the return of their children, only to be informed, that they, the mothers, had been fed the flesh of their own children by ISIS. Children murdered, then fed to their own mothers.

Yezidi Kurds protest on the one-year anniversary of ISIS' 2014 invasion of Sinjar in northern Iraq.​

“ISIS militia have burned many Yezidi girls alive for refusing to convert and marry ISIS men. Young Yezidi boys are being trained to be jihadists and suicide bombers. All of our temples in the ISIS controlled area are exploded and destroyed. “The entire Yezidi population was displaced in less than one day on August 3, 2014, in Sinjar. The Yezidis and Chaldo-Assyrian Christians face this genocide together. “Why? Again, because we are not Muslims, and because our path is the path of peace. For this, we are being burned alive. For living as men and women of peace. “What I have just recounted to you, what has happened to the Yezidis and Chaldo-Assyrian Christians in Sinjar and in Nineveh Plain and other minorities is nothing less than genocide, according to the UN definition of genocide,” Ismail said.

Bishop Francis Kalabat of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle of Detroit told Congress that Iraqi Christians “are being victimized by the Obama administration not recognizing their suffering” and their “slow and perpetual genocide.” “It is important to recognize that the atrocities in Iraq began as early as 2005. This preceded ISIS,” the bishop testified at the hearing. “Christians and other minorities in Iraq have experienced their own slow and perpetual genocide. I wish to note that the Obama administration, including President Obama himself, have neglected to mention that the ISIS atrocities were committed against Christians,” he said. “There are more than 150,000 Iraqi Christians who are now displaced in northern Iraq or are refugees in other countries such as approximately 35,000 in Jordan, 60,000 in Lebanon, 30,000 in Turkey who are being victimized by the Obama administration in not recognizing their suffering,” Bishop Kalabat continued. “There are countless Christian villages in Syria who have been taken over by ISIS and have encountered genocide and the Obama administration again refuses to recognize their plight.”

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Declaration sought to condemn genocide of Middle-east Christians...

Congressmen Seek Declaration: Slaughter of Middle East Christians is Genocide
December 17, 2015 | A bipartisan group of lawmakers called on President Barack Obama and Congress Wednesday to call the Islamic State’s (ISIS) targeting of Christians in the Middle East “genocide.”

“We are here today because ISIS continues to commit genocide against Christians and because the White House is considering a public genocide declaration that would exclude Christians,” said Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) at at a panel hosted by In Defense of Christians. He was joined by Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). Smith quoted Obama’s words in August 2014 following the targeting of the Yazidi minority on Mount Sinjar, where he stated, “We can act carefully and responsibly to prevent a potential act of genocide.” “Almost a year and a half later, this is the closest that the administration has come to openly acknowledging that ISIS has actually committed genocide and that Christians are among the victims of that genocide,” Smith emphasized, “Now I would suggest respectfully that there is absolutely nothing ‘potential’ - to use the president’s word - about the genocide being waged against Christians and Yazidis. It’s a fact.”

Yazidi Kurdish women chant slogans during a protest against the Islamic State group's invasion on Sinjar city, in Dohuk, northern Iraq​

Dr. Gregory Stanton, research professor in genocide studies and prevention at George Mason University, explained how the targeting of Christians and other minority groups by ISIS fit the United Nation’s definition of genocide adopted in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Stanton quoted the UN’s definition of genocide as: “Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

“Every single one of these acts that is listed has been committed by ISIS against Yazidis, Christians, against Shia Muslims and against other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria,” Stanton said. “ISIS has targeted all of these groups.” “They have openly declared their intent to kill every Yazidi male and enslave every Yazidi female,” Stanton pointed out, “but they also have said that Christians unless they will convert should either pay a tax, that is a jizya tax, or convert to Islam, and if they won’t, they’ll be slaughtered.” “Unfortunately, a recent report by the Holocaust Memorial Museum concluded that this jizya tax meant that there wasn’t the intent to kill everyone who was a Christian,” Stanton said, adding that, “the problem with that is the jizya tax for ISIS is a lie. It’s an ISIS lie, because they have set the tax so high that very few people can pay it. So what happens? They can’t pay it, and so they refuse to convert, to renounce Jesus Christ their Lord and Saviour, and they refuse, and they are beheaded.”

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In Signal to Iran, US Lawmakers Pass Bill Targeting Hezbollah in 425-0 Vote
December 17, 2015 | By a vote of 425 to 0, the House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation strengthening sanctions against Iran’s terrorist proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, signaling to Tehran that it will remain a target of Congressional action despite looming sanctions relief under the Iran nuclear agreement.

The bipartisan legislation now goes to President Obama’s desk for signature, the Senate having passed it last month. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), who authored the original bill with ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), urged the president Wednesday to sign it quickly, saying that it “cracks down on Hezbollah’s fundraising efforts, its operations in Syria, and its efforts to carry out hostilities against the United States and our ally Israel.”

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Iran created and is the main sponsor of the Lebanese-based Shi’ite terrorist group.​

He linked the legislation to the financial boost Iran is expected to garner as the nuclear agreement takes effect in the coming months. “Under President Obama’s nuclear deal, Iran will soon hit a jackpot worth tens of billions of dollars. Even the president admits this ‘windfall’ of cash will go to activities and groups, including its main terror proxy Hezbollah, that pose ‘a threat to us, and a threat to our allies,’” Royce said, quoting from the president’s press conference following the conclusion of the Iran nuclear talks last July.

At that press conference, Obama conceded that there was “a pace at which they [the Iranians] could support Hezbollah even more” once the nuclear deal and its sanctions relief take effect. But he indicated that getting the nuclear deal achieved was a higher priority. “Is the incremental additional money that they’ve got to try to destabilize the region or send to their proxies, is that more important than preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon? No,” he said. “This is a matter of us making a determination of what is our priority.”

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so sad, and so much silence from the rest of the world