Justin Smith writes of the impotent actions of the Obama
Administration to engage ISIS concerning the Islamic genocide against
Christians.
JRH 4/10/16
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Another Christian
Genocide
Defend the Faith
By Justin O. Smith
Sent: 4/9/2016 1:35
PM
"Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act." __ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christians are the primary focus of the Islamic State
murderers in Iraq and Syria, who are also committing heinous acts against the
Yazidis and other Muslims. Entire Christian communities are being eradicated
through the most abhorrent and abominably evil acts imaginable. The Christian
population of Aleppo, Syria, once numbering half a million, is now reduced to
approximately 35,000. Virtually every last Christian has fled Mosul, Iraq,
after being given "the choice" to convert to Islam or die. Christians
qualify in many more significant ways to receive refugee status than any other
people, and America and other predominantly Christian nations must provide them
with immediate protection and sanctuary, or watch Christianity in the Middle
East disappear.
While Muslims can move easily from one nearby Muslim nation
to the next, Christians have nowhere to go, no safe haven, and any attempt to
flee often ends in death. They cannot seek shelter in U.N. camps, hiding in
private homes and secluded "safe-houses," instead they are attacked
by Muslim "refugees" and killed by islamofascist jihadists, who raid
the camps. And due to their inability to leave the country for fear of
discovery on the trails of death, Christians have been denied
"refugee" status through a technicality; this technicality has
allowed the Obama administration to do absolutely nothing for five years, in the
face of the worst Christian genocide since the Armenian genocide perpetrated by
the Ottoman Empire.
Some of America's finest citizens, such as Patrick Kelly
(Knights of Columbus) and Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) finally
pressured Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama to give an official
U.S. declaration on March 17th that the Islamic State is committing genocide
against Christians, Yazidis and Muslims. Rep. Rohrabacher's 'Save the Christians from Genocide Act' (HR4017) passed the
House and Senate last month, after receiving motivation from the December 4th,
2015 letter to Secretary Kerry, from thirty religious leaders, scholars and
experts working with the Heritage Foundation, that documented "ISIS
assassinations of Church leaders; mass murders; torture ... and systematic rape
of Christian girls and women."
Dr. Jerry Johnson, an ethicist and president of National
Religious Broadcasters, suggested [CS
Monitor version]: "If some anti-Muslim group was gathering
up the Muslims, putting them in cages ... dousing them in gas and lighting them
on fire, or lining them up and beheading Muslims simply because they were
Muslims, quite frankly ... our government would have declared this an outrage
and a genocide a long time ago."
Despite Secretary Kerry's statement, "What Daesh (Islamic
State) wants to erase, we must preserve", no one should view this too
optimistically. The Obama administration was fully aware of the Christian
genocide five years ago, and yet, Obama's Cabinet stubbornly refused to create
a viable strategy to destroy these islamofascist murderers. Obama's defacto
policy favored Muslim "refugees" and blocked Christians, and it will
not change much now.
America has witnessed Obama's unconditional love of all
things Islamic, like the Muslim call to prayer, and we have heard him apologize
to the Middle East for "Western imperialism". He has repeatedly
claimed that the chaos, violence and murders committed by Islamic State
terrorists are not "Islamic" and the Islamic State jihadists are not "Islamic",
when the historical evidence has documented torture and beheadings as the
Muslim's preferred method of proselytism from the 7th century right into the
present. No one should be astonished that for Obama, genocide is not genocide
if it's committed against Christians.
If only reluctantly, the Obama administration declared this
Christian genocide, and the U.S. is now obligated legally, under the Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948 [TreatiesUN.org], to
"take all measures to prevent genocide which [are] within [its] power and
which might [contribute] to preventing genocide." But, this obligation
does not require direct military intervention, so the world should expect only
the bare minimum effort from this administration and possibly the next: However,
HR4017 does require Homeland Security to assign a heightened refugee status to
these victims of genocide and to expedite visas for them.
Samantha Power observed in her 2002 book 'A Problem From
Hell', that "No U.S. president has ever made genocide prevention a
priority, and no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his
indifference to its occurrences."
Americans may not have "religious tests" for our
compassion and immigration/refugee policies, however, an accurate security test
must now necessarily convince Congress to block Obama's plan to give 10,000
Syrian "refugees" entry into America by September 30th, unless they
are verified to be Syrian Christians. While Christians pose absolutely no
threat to America, the Syrian Muslim refugees contain a fifth column [Two more perspectives on 5th
Column Muslims HERE and HERE] that hates us and
wants to kill us and destroy our way of life; so essentially, they are imposing
a religious test, with the endgame being a Christian holocaust.
In January 2016, Nadia Taha [The Freedom Fund], a 21 year old Iraqi woman, testified
about her brutal rape and enslavement by Islamic State terrorists, before the
United Nations Security Council in her effort to convince the international
community to intervene. She recalled, "That night, he beat me up, forced
me to undress, and put me in the room with six militants ... They continued to
commit crimes to my body until I became unconscious."
Last April in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis stated that
"Our brothers and our sisters ... are persecuted, exiled, slain, beheaded,
solely for being Christian ... I truly hope that the international community
doesn't look the other way." Now, one year later this evil persists.
"If the world hates you, you
know that it hate Me before it hate you. _ John 15:18 ... If they persecute Me,
they will persecute you. _ John 15:20
With so many hundreds of thousands of Christians forced from
their ancestral lands and murdered by Muslims, is it too late to save
Christianity in the Middle East? Only time will tell, but time is running out.
Americans and people of the Free World, who care, simply
have to do everything within their combined ability to save the Christians of
Iraq and Syria and stop the spread of this intense and insane regional war to
other regions. Whatever one's situation, send any aid at hand to relief
organizations, similar to the Barnabas Fund [About and Donate],
who are sheltering, feeding and even evacuating Christians to the West. Move
our leaders to send more and better resources to national guard equivalents
like the Peshmerga [Breitbart
3/16/16], who are fighting the Islamic State. Move world leaders to
eradicate the Islamic State. And should these efforts fall far short, young
Christian men and women might also consider going to these areas to help and/or
fight, not as mercenaries but as Defenders of the Faith: Christmas Day 2014 was
the first time in 2,000 that the bells did not ring out in the city of Mosul.
By Justin O Smith
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