The Islamic State Thread

[LazyLion]

JIHADIST OFFENSIVE SPARKS MASS IRAQ EXODUS

Jihadists took over Iraq's largest Christian town Qaraqosh and surrounding areas on Thursday and sent tens of thousands of panicked residents fleeing towards autonomous Kurdistan, officials and witnesses said.

Islamic State (IS) militants moved in overnight after the withdrawal of Kurdish peshmerga troops, who are stretched thin across several fronts in Iraq, residents said.

"I now know that the towns of Qaraqosh, Tal Kayf, Bartella and Karamlesh have been emptied of their original population and are now under the control of the militants," Joseph Thomas, the Chaldean archbishop of Kirkuk and Sulaimaniyah, told AFP.

Qaraqosh is an entirely Christian town which lies between Mosul, the jihadists' main hub in Iraq, and Arbil, the Kurdish region's capital. It usually has a population of around 50,000.

"It's a catastrophe, a tragic situation. We call on the UN Security Council to immediately intervene. Tens of thousands of terrified people are being displaced as we speak, it cannot be described," the archbishop said.

Tal Kayf, the home of a significant Christian community as well as members of the Shabak Shiite minority, also emptied overnight.

"Tal Kayf is now in the hands of the Islamic State. They faced no resistance and rolled in just after midnight," said Boutros Sargon, a resident who fled the town and was reached by phone in Arbil.

"I heard some gunshots last night and when I looked outside, I saw a military convoy from the Islamic State. They were shouting 'Allahu Akbar' (God is greatest)," he said.


Source : Sapa-AFP /lk
Date : 07 Aug 2014 10:14

 

[Alan]

I don't see Hamas trying to execute everyone who isn't a Muslim as a start.

Hamas use child suicide bombers I doubt executing infidels is beyond them. There are geopolitical reasons for them to show restraint at the moment.

Give them a state and allow them to flood gaza with weapons and you'll see the same barbarism.

 

[LazyLion]

IRAQ JIHADISTS REMOVE CROSSES FROM CHURCHES, BURN MANUSCRIPTS: PATRIARCH

Jihadists who took over large areas of northern Iraq Thursday have forced 100,000 Christians to flee and occupied churches, removing crosses and destroying manuscripts, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako said.

"There are 100,000 displaced Christians who have fled with nothing but their clothes, some of them on foot, to reach the Kurdistan region," he told AFP.

"This is a humanitarian disaster. The churches are occupied, their crosses were taken down," said Sako.


Source : Sapa-AFP /aa
Date : 07 Aug 2014 11:33

 

[Spizz]

IRAQ JIHADISTS REMOVE CROSSES FROM CHURCHES, BURN MANUSCRIPTS: PATRIARCH

Jihadists who took over large areas of northern Iraq Thursday have forced 100,000 Christians to flee and occupied churches, removing crosses and destroying manuscripts, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako said.

"There are 100,000 displaced Christians who have fled with nothing but their clothes, some of them on foot, to reach the Kurdistan region," he told AFP.

"This is a humanitarian disaster. The churches are occupied, their crosses were taken down," said Sako.


Source : Sapa-AFP /aa
Date : 07 Aug 2014 11:33

If anyone is looking for examples of genocide, I think you'll find it here rather than any other conflict zone in the world.

Selective indignation FTW.

 

[LazyLion]

JOINT EFFORT TO BREAK JIHADIST SIEGE OF IRAQI TURKMEN TOWN

Iraqi government forces, Shiite militiamen and Kurdish troops launched a large operation Thursday to free Amerli, a Turkmen town that has been besieged by jihadists for 50 days, officials said.

"The Iraqi army, (Shiite) volunteers and (Kurdish) peshmerga, equipped with heavy artillery and backed by the air force, have launched an operation to break the siege of Amerli and clear the neighbouring town of Sulaiman Bek," the mayor of neighbouring Tuz Khurmatu, Shallal Abdul Baban, told AFP.

He said four Shiite militiamen and two Iraqi soldiers had already been killed in the offensive, which began before dawn.

Abdul Baban also said 39 other Iraqi troops and volunteers, as well as four peshmerga, were wounded.

A regional security official and a peshmerga source confirmed the information.

The anti-jihadist forces were said to be only three kilometres (two miles) from Amerli, a town of 20,000 mainly Shiite Turkmen that has been completely surrounded by Islamic State militants since June 18.

For weeks, residents had appealed for a military intervention and warned that food, medication and water were in short supply.

It was not immediately clear how close the pro-government forces were to breaking the siege imposed by jihadists who had been controlling all 34 villages around Amerli.

For weeks, government forces had remained south of Amerli, apparently unable to push any further, and peshmerga forces had maintained positions in Tuz Khurmatu, apparently unwilling to move.

The string of setbacks suffered by the peshmerga in recent days and the federal forces' inability to regain the ground it lost when IS launched its major offensive two months ago have led to mounting domestic and international pressure for Baghdad and the Kurds to set aside their differences and cooperate on the ground.

Iraq's Turkmen minority, of Turkic ethnicity, is one of the country's largest and lives exclusively in the north. It is mostly Sunni Muslim but its Shiite component has been systematically targeted by jihadists over the past two months.


Source : Sapa-AFP /ma
Date : 07 Aug 2014 12:58

 

[Spizz]

Where is all of the taking sides here and condemning these bustards. 10s of thousands of people have fled their homes overnight in a massive humanitarian disaster and everyone still feels Gaza is more newsworthy?

Selective indignation FTW. Again.

 

[Spizz]

Are Iraqi children less important than Gaza children or is it all about the oppressor?

 

[Spizz]

Lots of kids dying. Come to this thread and comdem away.

 

[Spizz]

It's a bit quiet in here.

Roll up roll up, lots of kids dying. Come and attack the Jihadists with lots of cutting and pasting, insults and YouTube videos.

 

[Spizz]

 

[ghostbuster]

As ibhave said in the gaza thread isis are terrorists and we condemn there behaviour. Killimg children is wrong. These ppl have also lived here for many years and deserve to leave in peace and harmony. They should resist. But I dont think theyll be called terrorists if they do

 

[MickeyD]

As ibhave said in the gaza thread isis are terrorists and we condemn there behaviour. Killimg children is wrong. These ppl have also lived here for many years and deserve to leave in peace and harmony. They should resist. But I dont think theyll be called terrorists if they do

"these ppl" are not armed and have no desire to resort to violence.

 

[Spizz]

As ibhave said in the gaza thread isis are terrorists and we condemn there behaviour. Killimg children is wrong. These ppl have also lived here for many years and deserve to leave in peace and harmony. They should resist. But I dont think theyll be called terrorists if they do

Oh, that's nice. A firm little slap on the wrists for the naughty Jihadists.

I thought you'd be going bat schit crazy with every second post deleted, just like in the Gaza thread?

No?

Any marches planned?

 

[ghostbuster]

"these ppl" are not armed and have no desire to resort to violence.

Maybe they should arm themselves and find a way to protect thrmselves.

 

[Grant]

Where is all of the taking sides here and condemning these bustards. 10s of thousands of people have fled their homes overnight in a massive humanitarian disaster and everyone still feels Gaza is more newsworthy?

Selective indignation FTW. Again.

the hypocrisy is quite breathtaking



it has been asked time and again in the gaza / israel thread.
those making the biggest noise about the "genocide" being committed in gaza, prefer to sidestep & dance around the question with a myriad of excuses.
Falcon786, was the only one to actually provided an explanation - for which he should be commended, as for the rest . . . .

but it really is quite simple & glaringly obvious - take a look at the multitudes of conflicts in the middle east
what is different about the combatants in the israel / gaza conflict ?

out of the protests against israel in london came this observation:

They marched though the centre of the city before congregating to scream outside the Israeli Embassy in Kensington. It was interesting to watch this rather non-diverse crowd pass. Most of the women seem to be wearing headscarves or the burka, while their men-folk were naturally more appropriately dressed for a sweltering summer day.

But what a picture. These are the people who stayed at home throughout the Syrian civil war, stayed at home when ISIS rampaged across Iraq, stayed at home when Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab carried out their atrocities across central Africa and showed no concern whatsoever when the Muslim Brotherhood was running Egypt into the ground. Yet they pretend to care about Muslims.

 

[MickeyD]

Maybe they should arm themselves and find a way to protect thrmselves.

Why? There should be NO need for them to do so.

 

[ghostbuster]

Why? There should be NO need for them to do so.

So u admit theres should be no reason for palestine to defend herself but thy have to after they have been invaded

 

[MickeyD]

So u admit theres should be no reason for palestine to defend herself but thy have to after they have been invaded

I don't know wtf you are trying to say...


If they did not have rockets and mortars to lob over their border there would have been no valid reason for their neighbours to retaliate.

What is your fixation with WAR? Can you not accept that people should live in PEACE?

 

[Spizz]

So u admit theres should be no reason for palestine to defend herself but thy have to after they have been invaded

Fsck me gently.

Here you tell the Christians to defend themselves.

There you tell the Jews to stop attacking.

Same situation, different solution and all depending on the religion involved. You couldn't make it up.

 

[Replay]

I don't know wtf you are trying to say...


If they did not have rockets and mortars to lob over their border there would have been no valid reason for their neighbours to retaliate.

What is your fixation with WAR? Can you not accept that people should live in PEACE?

Peace? What a noble idea...