An important documentary by VICE News has been published which uses extensive footage gained by a journalist embedded with Islamic State forces. The youtube video linked here is set to start at 29m 58s, just before a section in which it is declared that Christians had asked for a dhimma pact, requesting to pay jizya.
(The link for the youtube video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUjHb4C7b94)
There are many noteworthy things about this documentary.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
‘Three Choices’ and the bitter harvest of denial: How dissimulation about Islam is fueling genocide in the Middle East
By Mark Durie
Published first by Lapido Media: see here.
Published first by Lapido Media: see here.
Republished by permission.
Also see summary and comment by Jenny Taylor here.
In northern Iraq religious genocide is reaching end-game stage. Islamic State (IS) soldiers, reinforced with military equipment originally supplied by the US, are driving back Kurdish defenders who had been protecting Christians and other religious minorities. While hundreds of thousands of refugees have been fleeing into Kurdistan, around 40,000 Yazidis and some Christians are trapped on Mount Sinjar, surrounded by IS jihadis. (Yazidis are Kurdish people whose pre-Christian faith derives from ancient Iranian religious traditions, with overlays and influences from other religions.)
Also see summary and comment by Jenny Taylor here.
In northern Iraq religious genocide is reaching end-game stage. Islamic State (IS) soldiers, reinforced with military equipment originally supplied by the US, are driving back Kurdish defenders who had been protecting Christians and other religious minorities. While hundreds of thousands of refugees have been fleeing into Kurdistan, around 40,000 Yazidis and some Christians are trapped on Mount Sinjar, surrounded by IS jihadis. (Yazidis are Kurdish people whose pre-Christian faith derives from ancient Iranian religious traditions, with overlays and influences from other religions.)
The
Assyrian Aid Society of Iraq has reported that children and
the elderly are dying of thirst on Sinjar. Parents are throwing their
children to their deaths off the mountain rather than see them die of thirst or
be taken into slavery by IS.
The
IS jihadis are killing the men they capture. In one recent incident 1500
men were executed in front of their wives and families. In another
incident 13 Yazidi men who refused to convert to Islam had their eyes plucked
out, were doused with gasoline and burned alive. When the men are killed,
captured women and children are enslaved to be used for sex, deployed as human
shields in battle zones, or sold to be used and abused as their new owners see
fit.
The
United States has ironically called for greater cooperation. UN Ambassador,
Samantha Power, urged ‘all parties to
the conflict’ to allow access to UN relief agencies. She called on Iraqis to
‘come together’ so that Iraq will ‘get back on the path to a peaceful future’
and ‘prevent ISIL from obliterating Iraq’s vibrant diversity’.
Of
course it is not ‘vibrant diversity’ which is being wiped out in Iraq, but men,
women and children by their tens of thousands. This is not about the
failure of coexistence, and the problem is not ‘conflict’. This is not about
people who have trouble getting on and who need to somehow make up and ‘come
together’. It is about a well-articulated and well-documented theological worldview
hell-bent on dominating ‘infidels’, if necessary wiping them off the face of
the earth, in order to establish the power and grandeur of a radical vision of
Islam.
Labels:
Dhimmitude,
Iraq,
Jihad,
Jizya,
Miroslav Volf
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