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Activists report dozens of Assyrian Christans kidnapped by ISIS

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From Fox News:

Two Syrian activist groups said Tuesday that ISIS terrorists have abducted at least 70 Assyrian Christians after overrunning a number of small villages in the northeast of that country.

...It was not immediately clear what ISIS planned to do with the Assyrians. The militants have a long history of killing captives, including foreign journalists, Syrian soldiers and Kurdish militiamen. Most recently, militants in Libya affiliated with ISIS released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians.

But ISIS also could use its Assyrian captives to try to arrange a prisoner swap with the Kurdish and Christian militias that it faced off against in northeastern Syria. There is a precedent: the extremists have released Kurdish school children as well as Turkish truck drivers and diplomats after holding them for months. Activists report dozens of Assyrian Christans kidnapped by ISIS | Fox News

How long can the civilized world tolerate these aggressions?
 
Terrible. I am all for sending weapons and training. America and our allies seem tired of war. The mess in the middle east requires middle east solutions. We should probably think about picking the next dictator until we are ready to take him out in the 2020's.
 
From Fox News:

Two Syrian activist groups said Tuesday that ISIS terrorists have abducted at least 70 Assyrian Christians after overrunning a number of small villages in the northeast of that country.

...It was not immediately clear what ISIS planned to do with the Assyrians. The militants have a long history of killing captives, including foreign journalists, Syrian soldiers and Kurdish militiamen. Most recently, militants in Libya affiliated with ISIS released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians.

But ISIS also could use its Assyrian captives to try to arrange a prisoner swap with the Kurdish and Christian militias that it faced off against in northeastern Syria. There is a precedent: the extremists have released Kurdish school children as well as Turkish truck drivers and diplomats after holding them for months. Activists report dozens of Assyrian Christans kidnapped by ISIS | Fox News

How long can the civilized world tolerate these aggressions?

Sure makes one long for the days when Hussein, Mubarak, Gaddafi and Assad were in power and in control, and these types were contained. I wonder when the "civilized" world is going to recognize its failed policies in the region?
 
"What is the capital of Assyria?"
 
Assyrians, Kurds, Jezidis, Druse, koptic christians, shia, alawite, armenian orthodox christians, armenian catholic christians and many more...

Have you ever seen an ethnical map of the middle east?

The entire region is controlled by Arab dominated nations, just how the Balkans used to be run by the Serbs.

Stories like these confirm to me what I have proposed for a long time, disolve the nations of the middle east, because they are nothing but British and French colonial leftovers.

Create nations in the regions based on ethnical/cultural lines, and you will avoid future conflict.
 
Assyrians, Kurds, Jezidis, Druse, koptic christians, shia, alawite, armenian orthodox christians, armenian catholic christians and many more...

Have you ever seen an ethnical map of the middle east?

The entire region is controlled by Arab dominated nations, just how the Balkans used to be run by the Serbs.

Stories like these confirm to me what I have proposed for a long time, disolve the nations of the middle east, because they are nothing but British and French colonial leftovers.

Create nations in the regions based on ethnical/cultural lines
, and you will avoid future conflict.

ISIS appreciates your endorsement of their Caliphate I asume.
 
ISIS appreciates your endorsement of their Caliphate I asume.

What a gigantic load of nonsence!

ISIS has captured regions which are ethnicaly Kurdish, Assyrian aswell as regions that are religiously predominantly armenian catholic, shia and jezidi.

They burned their cultural shirines and heritage and attempted to ethnicaly cleane the region and purge it of it`s heritage.

ISIS are in that regard no different from the Arab regimes like Saddam Hussain who tried the same with the Kurds and Shia.

Or for that matter, ISIS is also not much different from the Serb fascists who attempted to destroy Bosnian culture and Croatian heritage in the eastern regions of Croatia.
 
Assyrians, Kurds, Jezidis, Druse, koptic christians, shia, alawite, armenian orthodox christians, armenian catholic christians and many more...

Have you ever seen an ethnical map of the middle east?

The entire region is controlled by Arab dominated nations, just how the Balkans used to be run by the Serbs.

Stories like these confirm to me what I have proposed for a long time, disolve the nations of the middle east, because they are nothing but British and French colonial leftovers.

Create nations in the regions based on ethnical/cultural lines, and you will avoid future conflict.

That of course, is why Germany invaded France and Russia in WW2 I suppose. :doh
 
That of course, is why Germany invaded France and Russia in WW2 I suppose. :doh

No.

All peoples of Europe have their own nations.

Only 2 peoples of the middle east have their own nations.
 
From Fox News:

Two Syrian activist groups said Tuesday that ISIS terrorists have abducted at least 70 Assyrian Christians after overrunning a number of small villages in the northeast of that country.

...It was not immediately clear what ISIS planned to do with the Assyrians. The militants have a long history of killing captives, including foreign journalists, Syrian soldiers and Kurdish militiamen. Most recently, militants in Libya affiliated with ISIS released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians.

But ISIS also could use its Assyrian captives to try to arrange a prisoner swap with the Kurdish and Christian militias that it faced off against in northeastern Syria. There is a precedent: the extremists have released Kurdish school children as well as Turkish truck drivers and diplomats after holding them for months. Activists report dozens of Assyrian Christans kidnapped by ISIS | Fox News

How long can the civilized world tolerate these aggressions?


Heya NB.
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Now they say the number totals 90. Also while this took place. They destroyed the Public Library and the Church of the Mary in Mosul.


While the world was watching the Academy Awards ceremony, the people of Mosul were watching a different show. They were horrified to see ISIS members burn the Mosul public library. Among the many thousands of books it housed, more than 8,000 rare old books and manuscripts were burned. “ISIS militants bombed the Mosul Public Library. They used improvised explosive devices,” said Ghanim al-Ta'an, the director of the library. Notables in Mosul tried to persuade ISIS members to spare the library, but they failed.

On the same day the library was destroyed, ISIS abolished another old church in Mosul: the church of Mary the Virgin. The Mosul University Theater was burned as well, according to eyewitnesses. In al-Anbar province, Western Iraq, the ISIS campaign of burning books has managed to destroy 100,000 titles, according to local officials. Last December, ISIS burned Mosul University’s central library. Iraq, the cradle of civilization, the birthplace of agriculture and writing and the home of the Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Arab civilizations had never witnessed such an assault on its rich cultural heritage since the Mongol era in the Middle Ages.....snip~

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/isis-burns-8000-rare-books-030900856.html
 
And yet there has been plenty of conflict there...

Whats the point of such a vague comment that could mean anything?!

You always either post substanceless nonsence or wild accusations.
 
Terrible. I am all for sending weapons and training. America and our allies seem tired of war. The mess in the middle east requires middle east solutions. We should probably think about picking the next dictator until we are ready to take him out in the 2020's.

So going to war should be based on if we're in the mood or not?

They've declared Holy War until the death against us already. We'll have no choice. Do you want to fight them there, or here?
 
Whats the point of such a vague comment that could mean anything?!

You always either post substanceless nonsence or wild accusations.

You suggest things will somehow be rosy if only groups are isolated to respective nations-thats just not true. It is, though-rather ominous in light of Germany's history.
 
So going to war should be based on if we're in the mood or not?

They've declared Holy War until the death against us already. We'll have no choice. Do you want to fight them there, or here?

Correct. If you do not have the spirit to fight, don't go to someone else's house and start a fight.

As far as the rest, we have a choice. We can fight over there, or stay here and not fight. I am for staying here and not fighting. They are not going to charter planes and get 5000 troops on the ground in Wisconsin. Not going to happen.
 
Correct. If you do not have the spirit to fight, don't go to someone else's house and start a fight.

As far as the rest, we have a choice. We can fight over there, or stay here and not fight. I am for staying here and not fighting. They are not going to charter planes and get 5000 troops on the ground in Wisconsin. Not going to happen.

Obama is hell-bent on helping Iran with its nuclear program. If that happens, it's a mere matter of time before it's here.
 
Correct. If you do not have the spirit to fight, don't go to someone else's house and start a fight.


You mean like flying passenger loaded planes into occupied buildings in NYC at morning rush hour....? That kind of starting a fight?

As far as the rest, we have a choice. We can fight over there, or stay here and not fight. I am for staying here and not fighting.

Sticking your head in the sand won't make it go away.

They are not going to charter planes and get 5000 troops on the ground in Wisconsin. Not going to happen.

They don't have to....they are already here....Any further aggression with planes don't require chartering anything, just a box cutter.
 
You mean like flying passenger loaded planes into occupied buildings in NYC at morning rush hour....? That kind of starting a fight?



Sticking your head in the sand won't make it go away.



They don't have to....they are already here....Any further aggression with planes don't require chartering anything, just a box cutter.

ISIS didn't fly a plane into any building in the US. The comparison is unnecessary.

I like you am a soldier. I am not going to send someone else off to fight a battle that people in the Middle East should be fighting for themselves. I am not saying stick our heads in the sand. I am saying send weapons and training. Don't send our troops.

Not sure why you are hung up on planes. I get 2001 happened. It was a tragedy. But silliness like the box cutter comment is why we have the bloated and ridiculously functioning TSA.
 
Obama is hell-bent on helping Iran with its nuclear program. If that happens, it's a mere matter of time before it's here.

Are we talking about ISIS or Iran or anything in the ME? ISIS and Iran are separate issues. Iran doesn't require boots on the ground either.
 
Terrible. I am all for sending weapons and training. America and our allies seem tired of war. The mess in the middle east requires middle east solutions. We should probably think about picking the next dictator until we are ready to take him out in the 2020's.

:mrgreen:
 
Are we talking about ISIS or Iran or anything in the ME? ISIS and Iran are separate issues. Iran doesn't require boots on the ground either.

Especially with Obama trying to cozy up like an ally to Iran.
 
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