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Aug 17 2014
Genocide! The silence is deafening
By Alan Caruba
web posted August 18, 2014
In the last century and now this one, I have lived long enough to have
been alive when the Nazis killed six million European Jews and another
five million other "enemies of the state" that included unionists,
homosexuals, Seventh Day Adventists, and any others that ran afoul of
that hateful and hate-filled regime.
There were genocides in the last and this century. The killing of
Kurds by Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator who used poison gas--a
weapon of mass destruction--against them is largely forgotten by
everyone but the Kurds.
In the 1990s there was a genocide in Rwanda by the Tutsi tribe against
the Hutu people. Hundreds of thousands were killed, most by machete.
Reportedly rape, mutilation, and the deliberate spread of disease were
also used against them. The final body count was estimated by some at
well over a million.
In the Middle East, the Islamic Ottoman Empire whose final years were
directed from what is now modern-day Turkey was responsible for the
Armenian Genocide that began in 1915. The Armenians were a Christian
minority and what is occurring in the land claimed by the new Islamic
State (IS) reflects the same barbarity that afflicted and killed
between 600,000 and 1.8 million Armenians.
In Europe following the fall of the Soviet Union and the former
Yugoslavia, thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Serbs were "ethnically
cleansed" between 1990 and 1995. Some twenty thousand were killed.
And now the fanatical Islamic State that stretches from areas of
northern Syria through much of northern Iraq, just outside of Baghdad,
is waging a systematic and utterly barbaric genocide of the area's
Christians. They are killing Muslims too.
And what is the world doing? Virtually nothing.
To his eternal shame, the President of the most militarily powerful
nation on Earth has done little than drop some "humanitarian" aid to
thousands of Yadizis, an ancient, little known group driven from their
homes in northern Iraq where they have lived for hundreds of years.
Thousands of Christians were driven from Mosul. In Nigeria, Boko
Haram, an Islamist terrorist group, is slaughtering thousands.
Some "targeted" bombing was credited with driving off IS forces, but
for how long? The Islamic State is now the most militarily powerful
force in the Middle East and one of the most wealthy, It threatens the
Kurds who have finally begun to receive weapons from the U.S.
What President Obama should be doing is orchestrating a military
coalition just as George H.W. Bush did to drive Saddam Hussein out of
Kuwait, but the fact is that Europe is fearful of participating
because it is now home to a large population of Muslims. And it has
economic problems comparable to our own.
In the Middle East, Iraq has just managed to force the former Prime
Minister out of office and must now try to get all the threatened
Sunnis and Shiite together to fight for its own existence. Much of the
U.S. weaponry given two divisions of Iraqi military was abandoned to
the IS when they fled from battle.
Meanwhile, one never hears a word about the Saudis getting involved
militarily as it has been their preference to let us fight their
enemies such as the former Saddam Hussein. The border between Iraq and
Saudi Arabia is a long one. They have a real interest is helping
destroy the Islamic State and so far its threat has managed to bring
together the Saudis, the Egyptians, and the Israelis, as unusual a
threesome has one might ever imagine.
One might hardly expect the Iranians to get involved though they have
been helping Syria's Bashar Assad with the provisions of weapons. So
have the Russians. The fate of the region's Christians is not likely a
priority or concern of the fanatical Shiite Iranians.
There is, in fact, only one nation where Christians and Muslims are
safe to practice their religions. It is called ISRAEL.
I can't help thinking this would be a good time for the Pope to call
for a new crusade.
The problem, however, is that the Christian and Yazidi genocide is
continuing and will continue unless some action can be put together to
destroy the Islamic State. It is an Islamic crime against Christians
and to some extent against Muslims whom they deem insufficiently
devout.
Ultimately, however, it is a crime against humanity. And humanity is
doing as little in response to it than occurred in the Holocaust and
other genocides.
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, business and science
writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center. (c) Alan
Caruba, 2014
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0814/genocide.htm
Aug 17 2014
Genocide! The silence is deafening
By Alan Caruba
web posted August 18, 2014
In the last century and now this one, I have lived long enough to have
been alive when the Nazis killed six million European Jews and another
five million other "enemies of the state" that included unionists,
homosexuals, Seventh Day Adventists, and any others that ran afoul of
that hateful and hate-filled regime.
There were genocides in the last and this century. The killing of
Kurds by Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator who used poison gas--a
weapon of mass destruction--against them is largely forgotten by
everyone but the Kurds.
In the 1990s there was a genocide in Rwanda by the Tutsi tribe against
the Hutu people. Hundreds of thousands were killed, most by machete.
Reportedly rape, mutilation, and the deliberate spread of disease were
also used against them. The final body count was estimated by some at
well over a million.
In the Middle East, the Islamic Ottoman Empire whose final years were
directed from what is now modern-day Turkey was responsible for the
Armenian Genocide that began in 1915. The Armenians were a Christian
minority and what is occurring in the land claimed by the new Islamic
State (IS) reflects the same barbarity that afflicted and killed
between 600,000 and 1.8 million Armenians.
In Europe following the fall of the Soviet Union and the former
Yugoslavia, thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Serbs were "ethnically
cleansed" between 1990 and 1995. Some twenty thousand were killed.
And now the fanatical Islamic State that stretches from areas of
northern Syria through much of northern Iraq, just outside of Baghdad,
is waging a systematic and utterly barbaric genocide of the area's
Christians. They are killing Muslims too.
And what is the world doing? Virtually nothing.
To his eternal shame, the President of the most militarily powerful
nation on Earth has done little than drop some "humanitarian" aid to
thousands of Yadizis, an ancient, little known group driven from their
homes in northern Iraq where they have lived for hundreds of years.
Thousands of Christians were driven from Mosul. In Nigeria, Boko
Haram, an Islamist terrorist group, is slaughtering thousands.
Some "targeted" bombing was credited with driving off IS forces, but
for how long? The Islamic State is now the most militarily powerful
force in the Middle East and one of the most wealthy, It threatens the
Kurds who have finally begun to receive weapons from the U.S.
What President Obama should be doing is orchestrating a military
coalition just as George H.W. Bush did to drive Saddam Hussein out of
Kuwait, but the fact is that Europe is fearful of participating
because it is now home to a large population of Muslims. And it has
economic problems comparable to our own.
In the Middle East, Iraq has just managed to force the former Prime
Minister out of office and must now try to get all the threatened
Sunnis and Shiite together to fight for its own existence. Much of the
U.S. weaponry given two divisions of Iraqi military was abandoned to
the IS when they fled from battle.
Meanwhile, one never hears a word about the Saudis getting involved
militarily as it has been their preference to let us fight their
enemies such as the former Saddam Hussein. The border between Iraq and
Saudi Arabia is a long one. They have a real interest is helping
destroy the Islamic State and so far its threat has managed to bring
together the Saudis, the Egyptians, and the Israelis, as unusual a
threesome has one might ever imagine.
One might hardly expect the Iranians to get involved though they have
been helping Syria's Bashar Assad with the provisions of weapons. So
have the Russians. The fate of the region's Christians is not likely a
priority or concern of the fanatical Shiite Iranians.
There is, in fact, only one nation where Christians and Muslims are
safe to practice their religions. It is called ISRAEL.
I can't help thinking this would be a good time for the Pope to call
for a new crusade.
The problem, however, is that the Christian and Yazidi genocide is
continuing and will continue unless some action can be put together to
destroy the Islamic State. It is an Islamic crime against Christians
and to some extent against Muslims whom they deem insufficiently
devout.
Ultimately, however, it is a crime against humanity. And humanity is
doing as little in response to it than occurred in the Holocaust and
other genocides.
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, business and science
writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center. (c) Alan
Caruba, 2014
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0814/genocide.htm