#isis crisis

[sai-mami]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yoa1nH2gXM)

Do you both feel bad for refugees but also worried about terrorists sneaking in?

[betweenandbeloved]

This is both a good and bad thing.  It’s terrible that the actions of ISIS are terrible enough to even be considered as a genocide; however, the label can put pressure on world leaders to do more than they are currently doing.  

The world is a scary place- what are you going to do to help?

[chuckl3head]

For FRANCE!

[graceroadchurch]

Assyrian Christian Children Forced to Watch ISIS Beheadings: ‘What Kind of World Is This for Kids to Grow Up In?’

“Our children saw many beheadings,” said Jack Zayya, an Assyrian Christian refugee, according to World Crunch. “We were obligated to watch public executions. What kind of world is that for kids to grow up in? They were always scared.”

[graceroadchurch]

ISIS Makes a Fortune From Smuggling Migrants Says Report

Many of the migrants embark from Libya on unseaworthy boats which have foundered with thousands drowning and thousands being rescued by European navies. At least 170,000 refugees made the sea journey last year, and that number looks likely to increase this year, according to the European Union’s border-surveillance organization Frontex.

[graceroadchurch]

Signs Of Change |The Past Few Weeks Or So 2015 Part 3 April

[graceroadchurch]

ISIS Militants Ravage Old Christian Cemetery in Mosul Desecrating Graves to ‘Eradicate Pagan Symbols’

ISIS militants have been desecrating Christian graves and destroying entire cemeteries in Mosul, recording their actions on video, which they say are part of their efforts to “eradicate pagan symbols.”

[graceroadchurch]

Christians who use the language of Jesus being uprooted by Islamic State

Over the past decade, Assyrians have joined waves of Christians who have fled Syria and Iraq because of war and persecution by extremist Muslims. But the latest attacks have added to concerns that this unique Mesopotamian people are in danger of disappearing from the region.

Assyrians in Iraq and Syria belong to the last communities of significant size to speak the language of Jesus: Aramaic. Many of Assyrians are being forced to move outside the Middle East, where it becomes less likely that the tongue will be maintained, said Eden Naby, a Middle East historian and expert on Assyrian culture.

Aramaic is the oldest continuously written and spoken language in the Middle East, she said. It was once also used by other religious communities, including Jews. “Assyrians remain the last Aramaic-speaking of people of the world. So the disappearance and displacement of these people pretty much spells the closing chapter of Aramaic use in the world,” Naby said.

Assyrians, also referred to as Chaldeans or Syriacs, consider themselves ethnically distinct from Arabs and Kurds, tracing their roots in the region to 6,500 years ago. They speak a modern dialect of what was the lingua franca of the Assyrian Empire.

Assyrians were among the earliest people to convert to Christianity, and they mostly belong to four Eastern Rite churches, whose founders are said to have included the 1st-century apostles Thomas, Thaddeus and Bartholomew.

Although groups of Assyrians are scattered around Lebanon and Turkey, the core of their community has lived in Iraq and Syria. The number of Assyrians in Iraq has plunged from about 1.4 million in the late 1980s to an estimated 400,000, with many migrating abroad because of the upheaval produced by the U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.

In Syria, Assyrians are estimated to total fewer than 40,000. Many have been forced by the Islamic State to flee to Kurdish-controlled areas in the eastern part of the country.