Isis appears to have killed three Christian hostages in Syria

[eissa]

Source: The Guardian

Islamic State militants appear to have killed three Christian captives in Syria and are threatening to kill 200 more held hostage if their ransoms are not paid, monitoring groups have said.

The men were captured in February when Isis overran a series of Assyrian settlements on the Khabur river in north-east Syria – villages that were populated in the early 20th century by Assyrian Christians fleeing Turkish genocide.

A video released by the group shows the men dressed in orange jumpsuits before they are shot dead. One of the men says Isis will begin executing other prisoners if the militants’ demands are not met, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“We plea and beg of the international community to intervene immediately. We have been driven out of our ancestral lands. We have been killed and crucified. The international community must act now to save lives of others kidnapped.”

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/08/isis-killed-three-christians-hostages-syria-assyrian-ransom

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And people question the motives of refugees fleeing this shithole? Accusing those seeking safety of wanting nothing more than hand-outs. FUCK YOU.

Our drones must know where these innocent people are being held. I realize that Assyrians, being a micro-minority in that region who have little significance in terms of geopolitics, but surely something could be done to save the lives of the remaining hostages, many of whom are women and teens.

[C Moon]

1. scum. gimme gimme gimme or we kill.

[booksenkatz]

2. Sounds like genuine persecution

... as opposed to being wished "Happy Holidays."

[eissa]

4. Oh, you just hit a nerve!

Nothing gets under my skin more than westerners whining about "Christian persecution." Fucking morons. Just because others may not subscribe to your beliefs doesn't mean you are being persecuted. Being singled out for your religion, rounded up, having the letter "N" (for "Nazarene&quot spray painted on your home to identify you, charging you an extra tax because of your faith, and of course outright executing you for your religious beliefs -- THAT'S persecution.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. I welcome anybody going after ISIS. The more the merrier.

They are just one big, festering crime against humanity--and history.

[elmac]

11. They are an evil organization created by another evil organization

the Bush administration.

[CJCRANE]

5. TIME Magazine: Syrian Christian Leaders Call On U.S. To End Support For Anti-Assad Rebels

The stories told by five top Syrian Christian leaders about the horrors their churches are experiencing at the hands of Islamist extremists are biblical in their brutality.

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"The bishops are asking the United States to exert pressure on countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey to stop supporting and sending terrorist fighters to Syria. “The real problem is that the strong military opposition on the ground is a foreign opposition,” Awad explains, arguing that US support of opposition groups means support for foreign terrorist fighters. “They are the ones killing and attacking churches and clergy and nuns and burning houses and eating human livers and hearts and cutting heads,” Awad says.

http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/30/syrian-christian-leaders-call-on-us-to-end-support-for-anti-assad-rebels/

[eissa]

7. The enemy of my enemy, right?

We mock the Arabs for this mentality, but our policy in Syria appears to be exactly this. We hate Assad, therefore we'll back the rebels, who are far worse. And the idea of the "moderate rebel" is about as realistic as the Tooth Fairy or the Compassionate Conservative.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. That's from Jan 2014, when people weren't differentiating between ISIS and other Islamic rebels

It's not clear how you'd apply that plea to the situation now.

[CJCRANE]

9. Yes, they were called "Al Qaeda" then.

Pretty much all of the rebel groups are jihadis.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

6. Hey, Putin: no prisoners. And no DoD bullshit about it taking 30 years.

[tabasco]

14. Hey Putin,

how about landing your cruise missiles in the right COUNTRY. LOL.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-officials-russian-missiles-fired-syria-land-iran-n441161

[DisgustipatedinCA]

15. The problem with that story

...is that the DoD and Russia are making opposite claims. They're both known to lie with regularity.

[daleo]

17. But try not to wipe out any hospitals

If you happen to do that, make sure to say sorry.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. That's awful. Those as Assyrian Christians

have lived in that region for over a thousand years. Now they are all having to flee for their lives.

[patsimp]

12. I'm sick of Christians and others being killed by the islamic state.

[jamzrockz]

13. I have seen videos of ISIS

lining up civilians and shooting them, videos showing civilians fleeing rebel "liberated" areas into govt controlled areas. One headline from Yahoo read "ISIS kills 70s Sunni tribe leaders", yes you read correctly, they killed 70 Sunni leaders and yet some people believe that the refugees are fleeing Assad and not ISIS/rebels.

With all the atrocities going on, you wonder why people in the administration still believe removing Assad is top priority.

[ozone_man]

16. I think it is a case of the U. S. allowing this

ISIS in to destabilize the region, using proxies Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar.
Yes they are awful, as are the countries that fund them.