World Muslim Body Denounces Persecution of Iraq Christians
The world's top Islamic body denounced Monday the persecution of Christians in Iraq's second city Mosul as an "intolerable crime," and offered to help those displaced by a jihadist offensive.
Organization of Islamic Cooperation secretary general Iyad Madani said the "forced displacement" of Mosul's Christians showed the IS' "practices have nothing to do with Islam and its principles that call for tolerance and co-existence."
"These atrocities also contradict the principles of the OIC," of which Iraq is a member, Madani added, noting that the body was "ready to provide the necessary humanitarian assistance to displaced persons until they be able to return to their homes."
At the weekend, hundreds of families fled Mosul, abandoning homes and belongings after IS fighters running the city issued an ultimatum for Christians to convert, pay a special tax, leave or face execution.
Families who were forced on the road and leaders of Iraq's Chaldean and other churches said Mosul was now emptied of Christians for the first time in history.
Jihadist fighters want to create a state based on an extreme interpretation of sharia -- or Islamic law -- and have targeted all minorities in the Mosul area.
22 July 2014, 03:54
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This sounds good., Glad some like myself believe this is not a good example of tolerance , believe in a world where all religions can co-exist. IS will fall soon inshallah. Terrible crime
04 August 2014, 16:31
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Every Christian is forced out of Mosul and the U.N and Obama says nothing. But the Kurds who stayed out of the conflict and are now brought in are now a great concern for the U.N. This is picking winners and losers and Christians are losers when it comes to a E.U, a U.S with a left wing administration and a U.N funded by Sunni autocracies. You can respect France for their offer to take Christian refugees from Iraq. That was a suprise.
We saw Western and Sunni interests supported in Libya where they all including the U.N were all complicit in pumping illegal weapons into the country in contravention of international law. The U.N is no longer a body of integrity.
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-un-warns-of-tragedy-as-militants-seize-iraq-towns-20140804-story.html
