The United Nations is saying that unless action is taken to stop the Islamic terrorist group ISIS from overtaking the city of Kobani, “thousands will most likely be massacred.”
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura says that Kobani is on the verge of suffering the fate of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica where 8,000 were killed by Serbs in 1995.
“If this falls, the 700, plus perhaps the 12,000 people, apart from the fighters, will be most likely massacred,” de Mistura said. The United Nations believes 700 mainly elderly civilians are trapped in the town itself and 12,000 have left the center but not made it across the border into Turkey.”
“Do you remember Srebrenica? We do. We never forgot and probably we never forgave ourselves. When there is an imminent threat to civilians, we cannot, we should not, be silent.”
The threat of the massacres of Kurds in the city is causing problem in Turkey, where Turkish Kurds are rising up against the government for their not stepping in to help stop the killing of their kin.
Survivors of an Islamist attack in Kaduna State, Nigeria say that at least 46 people have been killed including two pastors.
Church leaders say the Islamists stated their goal was to “cleanse” the area of any Christians.
The two pastors were killed along with 31 other Christian s in Karshin Daji. The attack left 15 injured and at least 15 homes of Christians burned to the ground. The slain pastors were Pastor Ezra Ibrahim of the Evangelical Church Winning All and Pastor Julius Jako of ECWA who was butchered beside his wife and daughter.
Danjuma Awe, 60, was one of the survivors of the assault.
“Suddenly we heard sounds of gunshots around our village,” Awe said. “The pastor was still in the pastorate when the Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way onto the church premises. They cut him, his wife, and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the house on fire. The three of them were burned to ashes in the living room of the pastorate. We only found the charred remains of the three of them the following morning.”
Residents say the Nigerian authorities did nothing to stop the Islamists from their assault.
British police have stopped and Islamic terror plot aimed at London.
Four men were taken into custody according to London’s Metropolitan Police. Police did not release details on the attack but said they were “part of an ongoing investigation into Islamist related terrorism.”
“They have all been taken to police stations in central London and remain in custody,” Metropolitan Police said.
The arrests come on the heels of 10 men arrested two weeks ago on similar terrorism related charges. The men were charged with supporting a banned organization and encouraging terrorism.
The UK’s Press Association said that radical British cleric Anjem Choudary, who has been accused of brainwashing men in Belgium to fight for Islamic terror groups in Syria, was among the men arrested in late September.
UK officials say that at least 500 British citizens are in Iraq or Syria fighting with Islamic terrorist groups. The country has banned any Briton who fights with an Islamic terror group from being able to return to the country.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out the hypocrisy of world leaders in condemning and attacking the Islamic terrorist group ISIS while not seeing the similarities between ISIS and Hamas.
Netanyahu spoke to the general assembly of the United Nations on Monday.
“Last week, many of the countries represented here rightly applauded President Obama for leading the effort to confront ISIS, and yet weeks before, some of these same countries, the same countries that now support confronting ISIS, opposed Israel for confronting Hamas. They evidently don’t understand that ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu laid out the similarities between the groups including their expressed desire to destroy the nation of Israel.
“As Hamas’ charter makes clear, Hamas’ immediate goal is to destroy Israel, but Hamas has a broader objective. They also want a caliphate. Hamas shares the global ambitions of its fellow militant Islamists, and that’s why its supporters wildly cheered in the streets of Gaza as thousands of Americans were murdered in 9/11, and that’s why its leaders condemn the United States for killing Osama bin Laden whom they praised as a holy warrior,’ Netanyahu explained.
Netanyahu said that ISIS must be destroyed and that Israel will back the effort to eliminate the extremist group.
The battle against Islamic terrorism is not going to end any time soon.
British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke to Parliament on Friday about the situation with ISIS and said that the battle to eliminate the terrorist entity is going to be prolonged and difficult.
“Beheadings, crucifixions, the gouging out of eyes, the use of rape as a weapon, the slaughter of children. All these things belong to the Dark Ages,” Cameron said.
“Left unchecked, we will face a terrorist caliphate on the shores of the Mediterranean and bordering a NATO member, with a declared and proven determination to attack our country and our people.”
Cameron is asking permission to send significant amount of British airpower to Iraq. Denmark is the latest country to join the coalition, sending seven F-16 fighter jets and pilots to Iraq for airstrikes.
Military analysts say the airstrikes have slowed ISIS progress.
A Christian man in Iraq has been used “as an example” by the Islamic terrorist group ISIS in an attempt to intimidate other non-Muslims in the region.
Salen Matty Georgis, 43, had stayed in the Christian town of Bartella after ISIS overran the Iraqi forces protecting the town on August 7th. Georgis had a heart conditions that made it impossible for him to travel.
After living in hiding for three weeks, Georgis ran out of food. ISIS seized him immediately after he left his home.
“The [terrorist] patrol arrests him and tried to force him to convert to Islam,” a relative who did not want to be identified told the Christian Post. “He completely refused [to renounce Christ.] The militants beat him and tortured him until he died in their hands.”
“The international community cannot remain silent about the existential threat that Iraq’s Christian communities are facing. We are witnessing the emptying of Christians from their homelands,” Todd Daniels of International Christian Concern said. “We applaud the United Nations for meeting regarding these human rights abuses, but in the face of such horrific violence, action must be taken to ensure the protection of these communities.”
A 13-year-old Christian boy that escaped an ISIS prison camp told reporters that he saw beheadings, stonings and crucifixions carried out by the terrorists. Other Christians were forced to watch the killings.
A woman died two weeks after suffering burns all over her body in an act of sabotage by Islamists in her village.
A woman named Nazeera went into her kitchen to cook breakfast when the room suddenly burst into flames. Her four children watched as she burned alive on the floor of their home until her husband Saeed was able to put out the flames and rush her to a hospital.
Nazeera suffered third degree burns all over her body. Doctors provided treatment to minimize her pain but she suffered for two weeks before she died.
When Saeed returned home from his wife’s bedside, a relative told him his wife’s death was no accident.
The family’s Muslim neighbors, who were furious the family has accepted Christs a few years ago, had been looking for a way to kill the family in a way that appeared to be an accident. The neighbors bragged to the Islamic relative of the family that they replaced the family’s cooking oil with a form of gasoline so it would explode when she tried to cook.
Saeed and his children are now in another country under new names. They had obtained papers to leave the country two days before the explosion.
The Islamic extremists who have taken over large parts of Iraq and Syria have posted a message online to America.
We will drown you in blood.
The Islamic State said Tuesday that it will attack Americans “in any place” because of the air strikes against their terrorist groups and that they would “drown” Americans in blood. The message, which was in English, was accompanied by photographs of victims of snipers in Iraq and an American who was beheaded during the Iraq War.
The U.S. airstrikes on the terrorist group has allowed Kurdish forces to make gains in the last week. On Monday the fighters were able to take back the country’s largest dam that provides power to most of Iraq.
The off-shoot group of Al-Qaeda, which was determine to be “too extreme” for the Al-Qaeda leadership, has so far focused on capturing land for their own Islamic state rather than launching western attacks. However, the airstrikes from the U.S. is the first direct assault on the terrorists by a major western power.
Christians forced to flee Mosul, Iraq because of the extreme Islamic terrorist group Islamic State are recounting their tales of horror as they fled for their lives.
“We heard the gunshots outside our door, and knew the terrorists were killing Christians,” Munira Aziz told Fox News. “But we hoped someone might rescue us. We cowered inside for two days, then knew we had to leave. We gathered some clothes and left at night.”
Aziz is now living inside a church in the northern Iraqi city of Sulemaniyah suffering from a broken hip. All she has left is the clothes on her back.
Aziz said that thousands of Christians were killed simply because they had no way to flee the city.
“There were Christians everywhere we went. In every garden, and in every doorway, there are just so many with nothing and with nowhere to go,” Aziz told Fox News. “But I am so happy now we are safe, we are the lucky ones.”
The exiled believers have stood firm in their faith.
“People say it would be easy to become a Muslim, but my religion is everything I now have — why would I give that up?” a refugee said. “I would die first.”
The Christians in exile are hoping that the recent advances by Kurdish fighters with the help of U.S. airstrikes will allow them to return their homes and churches.
The Anti-Defamation League is reporting a “dramatic surge” in anti-Semitism around the world in the wake of the conflict in the Gaza strip with Islamic terrorists attacking Israel.
The ADL report showed dozens of international incidents including physical assaults, threats, intimidation, public hate speech and damage to synagogues including the use of Nazi symbols in graffiti.
Abraham Foxman, the National Director of the ADL, said that the report shows “focuses on actions and speech with extend far beyond the bounds of criticism into violence and bigotry.”
“There was a dramatic surge in violence against Jews and Jewish institutions around the world during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge. From France to the Argentina, from Canada to Chile, synagogues were attacked, Jewish cultural centers were vandalized, Jewish shops were threatened and identifiably Jewish individuals beaten on the street. Anti-Semitism was in the air, and in the streets,” Foxman said.
The ADL noted many of the incident were advertised or started as “pro-peace, pro-Palestine” rallies but quickly degraded into anti-Semitic rallies with messages of support for Islamic terrorists who want to exterminate all Jews.
