Coptic Bishop: We're Seeing 'Heinous Cleansing of Entire Christian Population in Middle East’ August 13, 2014 - 9:09 PM By Michael W. Chapman
CNSNews.com) – Bishop Anba Suriel, who was born in Egypt and leads the Coptic Orthodox Church in the diocese of Melbourne, Australia, denounced the “merciless and barbaric acts of genocide” against Christians in Mosul, Iraq, asked why most world leaders and the media were nearly silent about the killings, and stressed that if “we do not take a strong stance against these crimes against humanity, it is only a matter of time before such fundamentalism infects the entire world.”
“Mosul, the cradle of Christianity in Iraq since the first centuries, is now purged of its entire Christian population,” said Bishop Suriel in a statement issued last week. “The ruthless and purposeful savagery of the attacks by the fundamentalist Muslim terrorist organization The Islamic State (IS), formerly known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), is truly inconceivable.”
“Yet most world leaders remain silent in the face of the murder of innocent children and horrific beheadings of civilians,” said the bishop. “We question why the media has not highlighted the unprecedented systematic eradication of the city's entire Christian population.”
Coptic Bishop: ‘We Are Witnessing a Heinous Cleansing of the Entire Christian Population in the Middle East’
Arrest warrants from the Australian Federal Police have been issued for Australian citizens Khaled Sharrouf, left, and Mohammed Elomar for acts of terrorism. The two reportedly posted images of themselves on social media holding severed heads. (Photo: The Telegraph.)
“In an age where world leaders are gifted with more power and global influence than ever before, I ask why the blaring silence and apathy?” he said. “We are witnessing a heinous cleansing of the entire Christian population in the Middle East by an expanding extremist Muslim terrorist group.”
“Are we going to sit back and watch the disaster unfold, and in so doing, contribute to the crimes against humanity?” he said. “The world's silence is fueling these extremist terrorist groups.”
******************* "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." Abraham Lincoln
"The sanctity of human life before birth, the respect for our culture's religious underpinnings and the hallowedness of the M/F marital bond are all being stripped of their value and reduced to natural commodities with the sole purpose of serving our personal gratification."
"hoever controls the language controls the culture"
When I read of a cleansing, my mind thinks of a good thing, like washing my hands. But here, it's as you say, extermination, murder and genocide being called cleansing.
I'm hating it when we bow to using these cover-up phrases. They're loaded to neutralize moral wrong. They're intent on creating a NEUTRAL, guilt-free description for a heinous crime against humanity.
In my opinion, "ethnic cleansing" is a phrase we should never use.
******************* "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." Abraham Lincoln
"The sanctity of human life before birth, the respect for our culture's religious underpinnings and the hallowedness of the M/F marital bond are all being stripped of their value and reduced to natural commodities with the sole purpose of serving our personal gratification."
"A British-drafted resolution, obtained by Reuters, targets the hardline Islamic State group – an al Qaeda splinter group that has seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate – and al Qaeda’s Syrian wing Nusra Front.
Diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the [UN] 15-member council was expected to unanimously adopt the resolution.
The draft “deplores and condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist acts of ISIL and its violent extremist ideology, and its continued gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law.”...
Islamic State has long been blacklisted by the Security Council, while Nusra Front was added earlier this year. Both groups are designated under the U.N. al Qaeda sanctions regime.
The draft resolution names six new people to be placed under an international travel ban, asset freeze and arms embargo: Abdelrahman Mouhamad Zafir al Dabidi al Jahani, Hajjaj Bin Fahd Al Ajmi, Said Arif and Abdul Mohsen Abdallah Ibrahim al Charekh for ties to Nusra Front, Abou Mohamed al Adnani for links to Islamic State and Hamid Hamad Hamid al-Ali for ties to both."
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"Diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the [UN] 15-member council was expected to unanimously adopt the resolution.
The draft “deplores and condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist acts of ISIL and its violent extremist ideology, and its continued gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law.”...
John Kerry helped them write this. I see his fingerprints all over the statement.
He's a REAL Smoothie!
And while these diplomats only speak "on condition of anonymity" they speak unanimously.
******************* "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." Abraham Lincoln
"The sanctity of human life before birth, the respect for our culture's religious underpinnings and the hallowedness of the M/F marital bond are all being stripped of their value and reduced to natural commodities with the sole purpose of serving our personal gratification."