I have friends who have spend 30 years in CAR… ====== By Charlize Theron Sept. 18, 2014 6:57 p.m. ET A United Nations peacekeeping force approved by the Security Council began deploying to the Central African Republic Monday. The force, which is expected to include 10,000 troops and 2,000 police, arrives in an already poor country that descended into lawlessness during two years of... Read more
Archive for the ‘Religious Persecution’ Category
Spare a Thought for This Little-Noticed Disaster
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | Religious PersecutionA Campus Crusade Against the Constitution
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Religious Persecution, US ConstitutionWhere are the “liberal” free speech advocates? ====== By Harvey A. Silverglate Sept. 18, 2014 7:01 p.m. ET In my lifetime I have been fortunate to see private associations within civil society promote astonishing social and political advancements in civil rights for African-Americans, women and gays. The voices of a like-minded minority, when allowed to associate and present a unified message, can be powerful.... Read more
As Iraqi Christians See ‘Slow-Motion Genocide’
September 7 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical Islam, Religious PersecutionObama is not “outraged”. ================ SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Early on Wednesday morning, the sonorous sound of Aramaic rose from the pews of Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church here. More than a hundred worshipers had gathered well before the 10 a.m. Mass, and they were already chanting morning prayers in the language of their Lord. Above the altar and crucifix, light flooded through... Read more
Mr. Speaker, please… We are being slaughered…
August 8 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution, The LeftWhere is the “moral outrage”???? ========== From a translation by the MEMRI organization of a plea on Aug. 5 by Vian Dakhil to her fellow members of the Iraqi Parliament, on behalf of the Yazidi, a religious sect whose members are besieged on Mount Sinjar by the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham: I beg you, Mr. Speaker, my people are... Read more
The Christian Purge From Mosul
July 22 | Posted by mrossol | Radical Islam, Religious PersecutionWhy isn’t the west; why isn’t Obama speaking out?! Why aren’t “moderate” Muslims speaking out??? ============ Imagine if a fundamentalist Christian sect captured the French city of Lyon and began a systematic purge of Muslims. Their mosques were destroyed, their crescents defaced, the Koran burned and then all Muslims forced to flee or face execution. Such an event would be unthinkable today,... Read more
Do Jews have a future in Europe?
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Losing Freedom, Racism, Radical Islam, Religious PersecutionAmazing, the fact that “history” has not taught everyone… =========== June 10, 2014 2:37 p.m. ET Just ahead of last month’s European Parliament elections, which saw the rise of far-right and anti-Semitic parties, four people were murdered in the Jewish Museum of Brussels. The shootings underscored that, in addition to political extremism, Europe’s Jews also face the violent threat of jihadists. Mehdi Nemmouche,... Read more