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Thursday, September 04, 2014

Cleansing Iraq of Infidels

"Minorities in Iraq have been targeted at different points in the past, but [ISIS] has managed, in the space of a few weeks, to completely wipe off of the map of Iraq, the religious and ethnic minorities from the area under their control."
Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International

"They separated men and boys from women and younger children. The men were then bundled into pickup vehicles -- some 15 - 20 in each vehicle -- and driven away to different nearby locations, where they were shot."
Amnesty International 26-page report

Iraqi Shiite Turkmen, mostly women and children, try to board an Iraqi Army helicopter aid flight bringing supplies to Amerli on Saturday, August 30.
The world may be horrified at the ramifications of the declaration of the Islamic State as an imperious caliphate in tune with its own agenda, impervious to the denunciations of its gruesome agenda of mass slaughter, but the opprobrium elicited by its actions does nothing but delight the terrorists, dedicated as they are to bringing the attention of the world to their covenant of destroying the presence of any within what they now claim as their territory, that do not submit to their version of pure Islam.

And it is pure Islam indeed, that dominates by fear and threats.

The Islamic State of Iraq & Al Sham's systematic program of "ethnic cleansing" represents to them the epitome of faith glorification, clasping to their heartless chests the Islamic demand to cleanse any geography dedicated to Islam from the degrading presence of non-Muslims. Including those sects of Islam whose values and practices fail to coincide in their provenance with those of Sunni Islam, jihadi-style.

Iraqi volunteer fighters on Monday, September 1, celebrate breaking the siege of the Shiite town of Amerli. ISIS militants had surrounded Amerli, 70 miles north of Baquba, since mid-June. ISIS's seizure of northern and western portions of Iraq, reaching to the outskirts of Baghdad has consolidated its position as the more successful of the two major jihadi groups, eclipsing al-Qaeda as the senior terrorist threat to the world at large, as well as that of the Middle East. Amnesty International is intent on providing the Human Rights Council with evidence they have collated on atrocities, capable of presenting to an international war crimes prosecution.

The focus by the Human Rights Council at least briefly, on ISIS, will be a refreshing change from its unalterable grip on Israel's reputation.

The report details how ISIS expelled 830,000 people -- mostly Shiites and members of insignificant-in-numbers religious minorities indigenous to Iraq, sending them fleeing in terror from their places of heritaged birth and belonging. Aramaic-speaking Christians, Yazidis, the Shabak and Mandeans, a gnostic faith, among them; people who have existed since forever in their native Iraq, who have in the past faced discrimination and oppression, but never yet to this existential dimension.

Fleeing the threat of forcible conversion to Islam, and fearing they would be slaughtered, based on what they heard and sometimes witnessed around them, they have lost their homeland. Thousands of refugees, Christians, Yazidis and others now live in crowded schools and churches, in displaced persons' camps in northern Iraq and Kurdistan. The Shiites have migrated mostly to southern Iran for haven.

ISIS terrorists seized Yazidi women and children as they rounded up villagers; their fate unclear; raped and sold as slaves.