ISIS is Eradicating All Religious Minorities

ISIS is Eradicating All Religious Minorities

The terrorist group ISIS has doubled down on its efforts to take over Iraq. In the last two months, they have destroyed monuments, ancient manuscripts, biblical artifacts, and are conducting mass genocide and other atrocities against men, women, and children.

Yes, I said genocide. ISIS is eradicating lives and entire civilizations as they continue their march through Iraq. This slaughter isn’t a by-product of war; it is deliberate.

200,000 people, or more, have fled their homes. Many of them are the Yazidi, an ancient religious minority in Iraq. The Yazidi are the newest target of ISIS, who is forcing them to convert or die.  ISIS methods of death include beheadings, torture, mutilations, rapes, and burning. Who are the Yazidi that the ISIS hate so much?

“The Yazidi religion is an ancient, pre-Christian monotheistic faith that reveres angels, is linked to Zoroastrianism, and is viewed by the Islamic State as an intolerable affront to Islam.”

ISIS regards the Yazidi as devil worshippers and wants them dead.

The Yazidi and many others are now stranded on a mountain with little to no food, water, medical supplies, or even help to defend themselves. What is being done to help? The US has finally started humanitarian missions.

As George Packer of The New Yorker states, “it is encouraging to learn that humanitarian supplies might be on the way, but we always seem to be at least a step behind as ISIS rolls over local forces and consolidates power. ISIS is not Al Qaeda. It operates like an army, taking territory, creating a state.”

The US has been a step or five behind. But we didn’t have to be.

Congress and the Obama administration knew back in November 2013 and again in February 2014 that ISIS was a very real threat to Iraq, and more importantly, to all religious minorities in that country.

“The group’s operations “are calculated, coordinated and part of a strategic campaign led by its Syria-based leader, Abu Bakr al Baghadi,” Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Brett McGurk told a House committee on Feb. 5, four months before fighting broke out in Mosul. “The campaign has a stated objective to cause the collapse of the Iraqi state and carve out a zone of governing control in western regions of Iraq and Syria.

So why has the US hesitated to act? Our government KNEW when this started in Syria that ISIS’s moves would have serious implications across the globe. Iraq has asked repeatedly for assistance. Vian Dakhil, the Yazidi’s lone representative in the Iraqi Parliament, has cried out asking for someone, anyone, to listen.

Are we listening? Do we hear? Do we understand what allowing this kind of evil to continue unchecked means to humankind? What we are seeing today is evil barbarism, plain and simple. Do we have the strength of will to stand up against ISIS? Or will we stand by while our government dithers and lets ISIS continue conducting genocide against the Yazidi’s, the Shabaks, the Shiite Turkmen, Christians, and anyone else who gets in the way of ISIS?

In 2012, President Obama, speaking at the National Holocaust Museum said that it is the United States’ core responsibility to prevent genocide and other mass atrocities. Mr. President, do you remember what Elie Wiesel said to you during the visit to Buchenwald?

Reflecting on all that he had endured, he said, “We had the right to give up. We had the right to give up on humanity, to give up on culture, to give up on education, to give up on the possibility of living one’s life with dignity, in a world that has no place for dignity.” They had that right. Imagine what they went through. They had the right to give up. Nobody would begrudge them that. Who’d question someone giving up in such circumstances? 
 
But, Elie said, “We rejected that possibility, and we said, no, we must continue believing in a future.”

The Yazidis are fighting for their very lives and their future. If they are lost, we are lost. They are reaching out for help. They want to survive and to live. Will we do the right and moral thing and help them have a future? I believe we should. If we don’t, then all that this Republic stands for is irreparably damaged, and we risk losing OUR future.

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3 Comments
  • Kevin says:

    Can’t be happening because Obama assured us Muslims are peaceful by nature, because every liberal person on Facebook says the actions of a few don’t speak for the whole, and – ah, heck – who am I kidding anyway…

  • Chris in N.Va. says:

    Much like the totally clueless “COEXIST” bumper sticker, wherein the adherents of the first symbol are to-the-death committed to the extermination of everyone represented by the rest of the symbols. (Ever notice the similarity of the crescent to the Mr/Mrs Pacman icon whose goal was to gobble up every last power pellet dot on the screen?)

    Contrast that with the last symbol in the list.

    First symbol — kill everyone to obtain personal salvation
    Last symbol — in light of already-existing personal salvation, give one’s own life, even to the point of martyrdom, to present the gospel to everyone in hopes of THEIR personal salvation

    Yeah, I can see the total moral equivalence right away….

    …NOT!

  • Xavier says:

    ISIS are bad Moslems, in the President’s view, because they aren’t the covert and soft-spoken infiltrators he prefers. They must be stopped before they show the world the undeniable truth about the violence and cruelty of Islam.

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