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Thursday, 20 August 2020

Yazidi tricked into abandoning their children

Women with sons and daughters born as a consequence of sexual violence

Yazidi women forced to marry IS fighters are also struggling to deal with the psychological wounds.

Yazidi women and girls subjected to sexual slavery by Islamic State fighters have given birth to hundreds of boys and girls. Many of them have been denied a place in the Yazidi community due to various factors, including the position of the Yazidi Supreme Spiritual Council and the current legal framework in Iraq, which establishes the obligation to register every Muslim as a Muslim. “unknown” or Muslim father.

Several women interviewed by Amnesty International stated that they had been pressured, coerced, or even tricked into abandoning their children, causing serious psychological distress. They had also been falsely assured that they could visit their children or be reunited with them at a later stage.
All of the women interviewed who had been separated from their children said that they had had no contact with or access to them, and that they felt unable to speak to their family or community about their desire to be reunited with their children because they feared for their own safety.

Janan *, 22, said,

“I want to say to [nuestra comunidad] And to all the people in the world who please accept us, who accept our children … I did not want to have a child of those people. They made me have it. I would never ask to meet his father, but I need to meet my son. “

This is what Hanan *, 24, who had her daughter taken from her, relates:

“I have the same feeling as the rest of the mothers [que se encuentran en la misma situación]. We have all thought about taking our lives, or we have tried … We are human, we have rights, and we want our children to be with us. It does not matter what we have experienced with the Islamic State; the situation we are going through now is much worse. We need a solution. “

Matt Wells of Amnesty International says:

These women were enslaved, tortured, and subjected to sexual violence. They should not suffer any other punishment.

Amnesty International calls on international organizations such as UNHCR to prioritize these women and children and to expedite their resettlement or humanitarian relocation, with the cooperation of national authorities and foreign governments.

“These women were enslaved, tortured, and subjected to sexual violence. They should not suffer any other punishment. They must be able to reunite with their sons and daughters, and any future separation must be avoided. They should be offered the opportunity for international resettlement or relocation together with their sons and daughters, taking into account the enormous danger they face in Iraq, “

said Matt Wells.

Yazidi health crisis

Many Yazidi children were killed when IS overran their homeland in 2014. Now 6 years later, children of the Yazidi religious and ethnic minority who survived brutal captivity at the hands of the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq are suffering severe physical and mental health problems.

Amnesty International says that almost 2,000 Yazidi minors who have returned to their families after living under the captivity of the armed group calling itself Islamic State suffer a physical and mental health crisis.

When IS stormed into their ancestral heartland in northern Iraq, the Yazidis fled to Mount Sinjar. Many were killed and some 7,000 women and girls were seized and enslaved. Many of them were raped.

Some of the boys lost limbs in battle, while some girls who were raped may never be able to have children. Amnesty is calling for enslaved Yazidi women who had the babies of IS fighters to be resettled with their children abroad.

The 56-page report of Amnesty International reveals the significant difficulties now facing the approximately 1,992 children who have returned to their families after being kidnapped, tortured, forced to fight, raped, and subjected by the Islamic State to many other terrible human rights abuses.

“Although the nightmare of their past is behind them, these children continue to have difficulties. Having endured the horrors of war at an extremely young age, they now need the urgent support of Iraqi national authorities and the international community to build their future, “

said Matt Wells, deputy director of Crisis Response for Thematic Issues at Amnesty International.

“These children, survivors of heinous crimes, now face a legacy of terror. In the coming years, priority should be given to their physical and mental health so that they can fully reintegrate into their family and community. ”

Wednesday, 23 September 2015

ISIS cannot be presenters of the real Islam

The Islamic State (IS) Sunni radical group continues to show videos of their brutal crimes and terrorise residents of several villages.
The jihadist chant 'Allahu Akbar', but we should question of they are not misusing the name of God like it is written in the Holy Scriptures, because we can only call onto god for the right things. They who seem to be so proud with their killing for "Allah" to guarantee themselves a place in "paradise"could be very surprised at the end of their race. They want people to believe "Allah" is giving them permission, but there is no God who allows such terror in His Name. The image of the Beast (Daniel 7:11) is truly speaking loud and clear these days. Fortunately, these days are numbered ...

Jamie Schram, New York Post wrote in September 2014:

– “Islamic State barbarians are raping thousands of women in Iraq and Syria to mass-produce spawn who’ll follow in their vile footsteps, The Post has learned.

Young militants are running wild to the chagrin of their more sophisticated and p.r.-savvy commanders, an Iraqi official told The Post.

The motivation of the rapists is twofold: They want to make ISIS babies — and they are just plain out for twisted thrills.

ISIS continues to misuse children and women. For many this should be a signal that they cannot be presenters of the real Islam.

In Islam, protecting the rights of an orphan, is one of the greatest acts of mercy. Islam forbids all kind of abuses against children especially female child including usurping an orphan's property.

Read more here.

Read also:
Wrong ideas about religious terrorism
The Qur'an, The Bible, And The Islamic Dilemma
Do Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, ISIS and ISIL belong to true Islam

Not true or True Catholicism and True Islam

Religion, fundamentalism and murder
Condemning QSIS or the self-claimed Islamic state ruler, al- Baghdadi their extremist ideologies and to clarify the true teachings of Islam
ISIL will find no safe haven

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Thursday, 18 December 2014

Israel not building up their weaponry for nothing

Map of Israel, the Palestinian territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip), the Golan Heights, and portions of neighbouring countries. Also United Nations deployment areas in countries adjoining Israel or Israeli-held territory, as of January 2004. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Is Israel building up their weaponry in preparation of their defence of their nation as part of the stage set in fulfilment of Psalm 83?

We can see the nations listed are currently the nations being mentioned in the media, Iran working at obtaining a nuclear weapon, Hamas working on plots to terrorize Israel in an attempt to provoke Israel’s hand to do the unthinkable and that is to completely destroy the Gaza strip that would cause the international community to come down hard on the nation.

For the Saudis there is the heat building up as the Sunnis and the Shias fight over who will become the dominant player in the Middle East.

We are told in Scriptures that in the end Israel will become the dominant player when Jesus returns to establish his kingdom on earth.

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Israel is Preparing for war

Thursday, 4 September 2014

Te late hulp voor Syrië uit Westen voedingsbodem voor Vechters voor een Islamitische Staat

In april 2013 liet de leider van Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, weten dat ISI en al-Nusra zouden samenvloeien tot "Islamitische Staat in Irak en de Levant" (ISIL) later het ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham). Al-Nusra verzette zich tegen die fusie en kreeg daarvoor ook de steun van Al Qaeda dat officieel afstand nam van ISIS. Vreemd genoeg bleken meerdere groepen op bepaalde ogenblikken samen te werken tegen de Syrische president Bashar al-Assad en zijn regeringstroepen en op andere ogenblikken gingen ze tegen elkaar in het verweer.

State of Al Qaeda in Iraq (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Na Al Qaeda is er nog een veel sterkere groep van fundamentalistische islamieten ontstaan.
De meer radicale afsplitsing van Al Qaeda is gaan ijveren voor een Islamietische Staat (IS) die zij zelfs uitgebreid willen zien over de gehele wereld.

De VS heeft vroeger strijders gesteund die tegen de Sovjet-Unie in Afghanistan wilden vechten. Onder die strijders bevond zich ook de Jordaanse strijder al-Zarqawi Enkele gefrustreerde Baathisten (oud-partijleden van de vroegere leidende Baath-partij in Irak) en ex-soldaten van Saddam Hoessein verenigden zich in de rebellengroep JTNR onder leiding van al-Duri. De JTNR zelf beriep zich op het soefisme – een mystieke stroming binnen de islam – en toen Fallujah onder vuur lag, stuurde het sjiietische Mhadi-leger van Muqtada al-Sadr hulpgoederen naar de belegerde stad. Soennitische betogers droegen vaak ook portretten van de sjiietische opstandige leider. In de hoop tweedracht te zaaien tussen de verscheidene Islamitische groeperingen gaven de Amerikanen dan eens de ene dan weer een ander groep.

Toen het Westen echter niet snel genoeg ingreep in Syrië verloren veel mensen hun hoop in het Westen en vonden voedsel en steun bij de fundamentalistische Islamieten die zo almaar meer aantrek vonden.

Dat de de alawieten, een aftakking van sjiitische islam de Syrische veiligheidsdiensten vast in hun greep hebben veroorzaakt een "diepe afkeer" onder de islamistische soennieten in Syrië.

Onder het Assad-regime waren christenen, druzen, Koerden, sjiitische moslims en Turkomannen in staat in relatieve vrede te leven zonder te worden vervolgd, zoals dat in andere landen in het Midden-Oosten voorkomt, maar nu wordt de toestand alsmaar delicater. De sterke fundamentalistische groep die vermoedelijk steungelden krijgt van Saudi-Arabië, wil een etnische zuivering doorvoeren en aanschouwt elke andere strekking daar haar denkwijze als des duivels. Het is ongelofelijk dat zij zelfs eeuwen oude (prachtige) moskeeën vernietigd. Men kan zich daarbij vragen stellen waarom deze cultuurhistorische gebouwen voor het nageslacht niet meer bewaard mogen worden.

Duidelijk is het dat het hier eigenlijk om een duidelijke patstelling gaat betreft het eeuwenoude conflict tussen sjiieten en soennieten. Het Baath-regime van Bashar al-Assad bevriend met het religieuze bewind in Iran en de radicaal sjiitische militie Hezbollah in buurland Libanon, indien het omver geworpen zou worden zou de Hezbollah marginaliseren en de Iraanse invloed in de regio sterk terugdringen. Dat verklaart ook waarom Saudi-Arabië, grote rivaal van Iran, tegenstanders van het Syrische regime financiert, waaronder groepen die gelinkt worden aan het terreurnetwerk Al Qaeda.

De Koerdische Volksbeschermingseenheid (YPG) heeft in deze strijd de ultieme kans gezien om haar volk over de grenzen heen weer op te roepen tot Koerdisch bewust zijn en tot het verenigen tot een Koerdische Staat (Koerdistan) wat het nu zeer moeilijk maakt voor het westen wie zij gaan steunen. Indien zij deze Koerden nu van wapens voorzien is er een gevaar dat diezelfde manschappen die nu in bondgenootschap met het Westen tegen de ISIS of IS vechten zich later tegen Turkijë, Irak en Syrië zullen keren om de Koerdische gebieden op te eisen.

Ondertussen wordt het nu hoog tijd dat het Westen er ernstig gaat over denken hoe zij de gewone burgerbevolking in die regio kan beschermen tegen de meedogenloze strijders, die ook al beweren zij in naam van Allah (God) te vechten, naar believen kinderen martelen en doden, meisjes en vrouwen verkrachten, verkopen als slaven, martelen en vermoorden.
De VN maakten maandag bekend dat minstens 2000 vrouwen en kinderen in Irak zijn ontvoerd door extremisten. De missie van de VN in Irak (Unami) heeft meldingen gekregen van vrouwen van wie de kinderen zijn afgenomen door IS en van vrouwen die aan strijders zijn gegeven als slavin.

Van het vele filmmateriaal dat de westerse schermen bereikt is het duidelijk hoe leden van de Islamitische Staat jong en oud tracht over te halen bij hun 'bescherming' te zoeken en met hun mee te strijden tegen de 'goddelozen'. In de beelden zien wij ook zeer jonge kindsoldaten.

In Syrië en Irak vinden er wreedheden plaats op onvoorstelbare schaal .

Ook journalisten die normaal trachtten een neutraal objectief beeld te schetsen, zoals James Foley en Steven Sotloff werden als waarschuwing naar het Westen, voor de camera op gruwelijke wijze het hoofd afgesneden met een dolk. Opmerkelijk is dat de dader waarschijnlijk een Britse rapper is uit London.

De extremistische beweging de Islamitische Staat (IS) heeft nu, met behulp van allerlei Islamitische organisaties en ook Europese recrutanten grote delen van het noorden van Syrië en Irak veroverd.
Tegen die jongeren uit diverse EU-lidstaten die naar Syrië zijn getrokken om mee te vechten aan de kant van de extremisten moeten de individuele Europese landen streng optreden. Het gaat niet op dat zij hun burgerschap nog houden en daarbij nog werklozensteun of zelfs bijstand van de openbare onderstand verkrijgen.

Men mag het niet al te licht opnemen hoe deze jongeren geradicaliseerd zijn, eerst en vooral onder invloed van imams die hier werkzaam zijn en oproer prediken en ook uit het land zouden moeten gezet worden. Indien men niet tijdig optreed zal men zien dat aan verscheidene kampen verkeerde en onjuiste informatie de wereld zal ingestuurd worden. Nu al kan men zowel islamitische als christelijke websites vinden war haat tegenover elkaar wordt gepredikt en onwaarheden over de heilige geschriften (Koran en Bijbel) worden verteld. Die valse berichten en onkruidzaden zullen de Westelijke gemeenschappen verzieken waardoor er bepaalde mensen op verkeerde ideeën zullen gebracht worden en zullen overgaan tot ook hier aanslagen te plegen.

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Wednesday, 3 September 2014

The world Having to face a collective failure

These last few days we not only have seen how ISIS or the fighters for IS destroyed the treasures of culture and unashamed pitiless killed thousands of innocent people and animals. In many countries at the south half of this world several tribes bring suffering to each other and make it that millions of peopel have to flee for the violence.

The West can only look how she is not able to bring a solution in those war-countries. It only can note a collective failure. It also does not manage to get a good working international refugee regime.

Without addressing these inadequacies and putting other policies and strategies in place, the World Food Programme and UNHCR also faces a crisis with a $186 million funding gap.

The UN refugee agency and the World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday warned that funding difficulties, compounded by security and logistical problems, have forced cuts in food rations for nearly 800,000 refugees in Africa, threatening to worsen unacceptable levels of acute malnutrition, stunting and anaemia, particularly in children.

English: Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, the Unite...

Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, the United States Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, addresses volunteers at the Earth Day Tri-Mission Community Project in Rome, Italy. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin and UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, at a meeting with government representatives in Geneva, made an urgent joint plea for US$186 million to allow WFP to restore full rations and prevent further cuts elsewhere through December 2014. For its part, UNHCR needs US$39 million for nutrition support it provides to malnourished and vulnerable refugees in Africa.

"Many refugees in Africa depend on WFP food to stay alive and are now suffering because of a shortage of funding," Cousin said. "So we are appealing to donor governments to help all refugees – half of whom are children – have enough food to be healthy and to build their own futures."

Across Africa, 2.4 million refugees in some 200 sites in 22 countries depend on regular food aid from the World Food Programme. Currently, a third of those refugees have seen reductions in their rations, with refugees in Chad facing cuts as high as 60 per cent.

Supplies have been cut by at least 50 per cent for nearly 450,000 refugees in remote camps and other sites in the Central African Republic, Chad and South Sudan. Another 338,000 refugees in Liberia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Ghana, Mauritania and Uganda have seen their rations reduced by between five and 43 per cent.

In addition, a series of unexpected, temporary ration reductions has affected camps in several countries since early 2013 and into 2014, including in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Cameroon. Some cuts were also due to insecurity that affected deliveries.

"The number of crises around the world is far outpacing the level of funding for humanitarian operations, and vulnerable refugees in critical operations are falling through the cracks,"

said Guterres.

"It is unacceptable in today's world of plenty for refugees to face chronic hunger or that their children drop out of school to help families survive,"

he said, calling for a rethink on funding for displacement situations worldwide.

A joint UNHCR-WFP report issued in conjunction with today's Geneva meeting says that refugees are among the world's most vulnerable people and warns that reductions in their minimum rations can have a devastating impact on already weakened populations.

Many refugees arrive in countries of exile already in urgent need of emergency nutritional care. Lacking any means to support themselves in many host countries, they remain totally dependent on international assistance – sometimes for years – until they can return home or find other solutions. Generally, WFP tries to provide 2,100 kilocalories per refugee per day.

Guterres warned that while a sustained 60 per cent reduction in rations would be catastrophic for refugees, even small cuts can spell disaster for undernourished people. The impact, especially on children, can be immediate and often irreversible. Undernutrition during a child's first 1,000 days from conception can have lifelong consequences, compromising both physical growth and mental development. Numerous studies have shown that this "stunting" leaves affected children at a severe social and economic disadvantage for the rest of their lives.

Even before the most recent ration cuts, refugees in many of the camps surveyed were already experiencing unacceptable levels of malnutrition, despite some progress over the past five years in improving nutrition standards. For example, a programme to prevent and treat micro-nutrient deficiencies has helped to slow or even reverse rising malnutrition rates and associated problems in some areas. But the current shortfall now threatens to negate even those hard-won gains.

Nutritional surveys conducted between 2011 and 2013 showed that stunting and anaemia among children was already at critical levels in the majority of the refugee sites. Only one of 92 surveyed camps, for example, met the agencies' goal of fewer than 20 per cent of refugee children suffering from anaemia. And fewer than 15 per cent of camps surveyed met the target of less than 20 per cent stunting among children. The surveys also showed that acute malnutrition levels among children under five years of age remain unacceptably high in more than 60 per cent of the sites.
Refugees hit by the food shortages are struggling to cope, posing a host of additional problems as they resort to what the report calls "negative coping strategies." These include an increase in school dropouts as refugee children seek work to help provide food for their families; exploitation and abuse of women refugees who venture out of camps in search of work; "survival sex" by women and girls trying to raise money to buy food; early marriage of young girls; increased stress and domestic violence within families; and increasing theft.

The end result, the report says, is a

"vicious cycle of poverty, food insecurity, deterioration of nutritional status, increased risk of disease, and risky coping strategies. Therefore, improving livelihood opportunities and food security is paramount to break this vicious cycle, and ensuring that previous investments and advances in nutrition and food security are preserved."

In addition to urging donor governments to fully fund the refugee food pipeline, WFP and UNHCR are also encouraging African governments to provide refugees with agricultural plots, grazing land, working rights and access to local markets to promote self-sufficiency among refugees. Given the unpredictability of funding, the agencies are also refining their methods of prioritizing those affected by possible cuts to ensure that the most vulnerable are identified and receive the help they need.

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Friday, 22 August 2014

ISIS, Mosul Dam and threatening lives of those who want to live in freedom

Flag of islamic state of iraq (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The day before Yesterday the National Flemish Television (VRT) did not want to show the video of Islamic State (IS) [formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS] with the terrible beheading of the American journalist James Foley. The commercial television programs showed some parts of it, but not the beheading itself.
Hearing the voice of the hangman we could notice his English accent which would not be found by a real Arabic. This could give us the impression that the American white man was killed by an European (white) man. For a second time James Folley had been abducted in 2012, this time by the extremist group ISIS, which calls itself the Islamic State. We can imagine which torture he had to endure and may wonder why he agreed to tell the world it is all the fault of the Americans, when he did, not the IS terrorist were going to kill him anyway. The executioner stayed standing straight and wanted to prove it is serious business with IS going for America and its allies. By threatening to do the same to another American journalist in Syria, identified as Steven Sotloff, the 50,000-strong Islamic militant group wants the Obama administration to meet its demands. The extremists want to intimidate the Obama administration into halting U.S. airstrikes on ISIS strongholds in Iraq. These airstrikes seem to be impeding ISIS’ultimate objective: to maintain and expand its self-declared caliphate.

The extremists have already seized large parts of Iraq and Syria, taking control of several of the towns’ main resources, like wheat and oil fields. Having those bases or strongholds of water and fuel provision in their hands will give them enough power to prove to the world they are a real state to be taken serious. Previously having seized the largest dam in Iraq, controlling the water supplies over a very big area, made them a feared competitor for the regional politicians. Already some governments gave already in and did not mid buying water and fuel supplies from IS. But by having the U.S. and Iraqi forces successfully regaining control of the Mosul dam, IS felt weakened again.

Kurdish forces claim they have recaptured the Mosul Dam on Monday. - Reuters

Iraq's largest dam (fourth-largest dam in the Middle East), built in the 1980s not being any more in the hands of IS they can not use it as a weapon to hold back electricity or water, or can not destroy it to flood lots of land and wreaking havoc. According to the BBC the United States recently spent $27 million to shore up the dam.

If ISIS breached the dam, or if it somehow failed, it could send a 65-foot wave of water crashing into Mosul and floodwaters could reach as far as Baghdad. "A catastrophic failure of the Mosul Dam would result in flooding along the Tigris River all the way to Baghdad," a 2006 report from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction warns. A failure of the Mosul Dam could kill 500,000 people. {International Business Times: Mosul Dam: Why The US Aided Kurdish Forces To Recapture Strategic Structure From ISIS}

I did not see the video, because I did not watch television companies which do not take notice of 'decency'. There has to be a certain decorum for bringing news. Respectability and 'dignity' should be on the agenda. I also have no urge to be presented with images of grotesque violence on a daily basis. Since the wars in Syria and Gaza this seems to be daily food.
Do the newspapers and television-stations remember that when they bring a portrait in view, the death person or the broken body of a child was someone’s son, someone’s brother, someone’s friend? Are they aware that in this world of modern technology, were so many people can be easily connected, there can be a high chance some family member may be confronted with a family member, even before he or she got the news from official sources?
Also Foley’s parents saw the latest awful images of their loved one. They were courageous to tell the world about their children, having had more worries about their two sons fighting as a soldier, than fearing for the one who was trying to bring news from both sites so that the world could get to know what really happened.

In a way IS cuts down the possibility to have her voice in the free world, because they themselves cut down the strings of free speech and make it that other journalists would not be eager to come to tell ISIS their story. IS also makes it that more and more they, but also the Islam, comes in a bad footlights.

At last in the UK some imams and the spokesman of the Islamic Woman Rights spoke out yesterday on the Breakfast show, telling the world that IS does everything against Islam and misuses the name of Allah. In many more countries Muslims should come to defend their faith. The imam also asked faithful Muslims to be aware that they could do much more for their faith in their own democratic counties where they also could vote for the right persons and have their voice heard much more than by going to fight in Syria. The IS militants and all Muslims should wonder what good it would do by threatening people with murder and rape to get them converting to the Muslim faith. Are they not aware that doing conversions under threat, like happened already in the past with Catholicism and Islam, got those religions infected with false teachings and pagan actions or heathen rites. In case they would like to have a pure faith they better would live according to their Holy Scriptures and try to convince others by their good example. violence is and always has been the wrong way to get somewhere and had always turn the ball against themselves like the boomerang always returns.

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The hydroelectric power plant at Mosul Dam with four surge tanks in background (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By its actions IS also pushes the west in providing the Kurds with food and water-supplies but also with weapons. These weapons later can be used to make the Kurds stronger in getting their rights and invading Turkey and Syria to get their own state Kurdistan which they already should have had. At the moment the moment the Kurds are one of those people who are still not recognised in their own rights. They still are the largest ethnic group without a country of their own. When IS tries to put them in such corner that they shall have no other way to come out fighting their way to freedom, they shall see in that the opportunity to make an end to them having to live across the borders of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey and parts of the former Soviet Union. Their culture and identity have been oppressed by the regimes of the nations within which they live. Religion, language, culture and perhaps, most importantly, a common history of persecution tie together the more than 20 million Kurds worldwide. Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani of the Kurdistan Regional Government says:

"I offer my condolences to Mr Foley’s family and the American people. They have lost a brave son who wanted to document the horrible aspects of war and conflict and shed light on their human costs."

The Prime Minister Barzani told yesterday (21 August 2014) the Christian leaders that international coalition is needed to defeat ISIS and made a plight of internally displaced people.

Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi arrived in the Kurdistan Region to express his country’s support for the KRG and its fight against the terrorists.

The Kurdistan Regional Government would like to express its gratitude, appreciation, and indebtedness to President Barack Obama for taking the timely decision to provide airstrikes against the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) terrorist group that was killing, hunting, and terrifying innocent people in Kurdistan as well as Iraq's ancient minorities

Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani yesterday welcomed Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, the European Union’s Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid Kristalina Georgieva, and a number of European Union officials to Kurdistan to review the current crisis. On Monday, President Barack Obama said the American operation has helped drive ISIS from strategic cities and infrastructure in northern Iraq, which apparently angered the Muslim militants. Today we see journalists trying to cover conflicts, having to face they being silenced by the ones who create the conflicts. The man in black, wielding a knife, on the video, asked God to cross the “cosmic reach of the universe” and soothe his family. The ISIS militant said:

“Any attempt by you, Obama, to deny Muslims liberty and safety under the Islamic caliphate will result in the bloodshed of your people.”

Lots of Islam fundamentalists do not seem to see that in many Western countries lots of freedom is given to Muslims and other religious people, but that in those countries where there is worked on democracy, they try to have all people getting the free choice to have whatever religion they want to keep unto, or if they want to be an atheist to give them that freedom not to worship any god. In the war which is going on around the borders of Syria and Iraq it is clearly not about religion, because even brothers and sisters who have faith in Allah and use the Koran, are often not considered to be of the right faith. Like Obama points out:

“Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents. No just God would stand for what they did yesterday, and for what they do every single day.”

At last we can hear some more Muslim voices condemning what IS does. Muslims were among the first to lament Foley’s killing and have repeatedly condemned ISIS’ reign of terror in Iraq and Syria. They are victims, too, of the crimes committed in the name of Islam. Many have worked tirelessly to combat them. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, said in a video released in June:

“Do jihad in the cause of God, incite the believers and be patient in the face of this hardship.”

As Kurdish forces, called Peshmerga, were succeeding in halting ISIL’s advance through Kurdistan as well as in the Diyala province to the south, the ISIL commander Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, from the al-Bu Badri tribe, left his headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul around Aug. 10 and fled from Iraq to neighbouring Syria as Iraq and the United States intensified air strikes on IS positions. This leader indoctrinates the people telling them he is the wali (leader) who presides over them and who will bring the best of things to their life. “Caliph Ibrahim,” the name Baghdadi took when the group declared on June 29 a “caliphate,” a pan-Islamic state last seen in Ottoman times in which the leader is both political and religious, asks the people to let him know when he is doing wrong. But nobody would dare to being afraid to be killed. According to the Guardian, of all the prominent jihadi leaders, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), is among the most mysterious and described by some as "the new Osama bin Laden". And his mystique – for now at least – has only been burnished by his group's capture of the city of Mosul. His words:

“If you see that I am wrong, advise me and put me on the right track, and obey me as long as I obey God.”

are just hollow phrases, because I would think he should have heard already enough from real honest Muslims who tried to show the world the truth of Islam. There is at least no mystery about what Baghdadi wants concerning an Islamic State. the way he wants to get those believes reality are going totally against Koranic believes.

It may be a good idea for many Muslims to be able to live in one state where they are free to do all that their belief demands. He therefore wants to bring the world's Muslims living under one Islamic state ruled by sharia law, the first step of which is establishing a caliphate spanning Syria and Iraq. After Al-Qaeda the western world may see again an Islamic warrior threatening free democratic principles. After the French military delivered heavy weapons, Kurdish Security Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Halgurd Hikmat said:

“We are still waiting for more weapons from our allies.”

As the west shall feel the need to provide such weapons to halt IS, they shall have to be aware they also give the opportunity of the Kurds to go on to fight for getting recognition and having their own state. A danger looming.

For sure the West certainly has to take care that Islamic youngsters may come to see and understand that in the West they also shall find enough chances to liberally fulfil their duties like Allah asks from them. A democratic system may give more equal rights to all sorts of people and all sorts of religions. In case their religion is the right one and other religious people would not be able to live under Allah, they should not fear if they keep to the Laws of Allah, because than they would be able to be safe. But when they are going to do things which endanger their acceptance for Allah they should be more careful, because they could be worse off than the irreligious. The religious leaders of the Islamic world should come out and let the world see their true face. If their will is to follow Allah the world should have nothing to fear and they will recognise the faithful by their words and deeds. But the unfaithful to God shall be unmasked. The imposters hall soon be imposed.

In the meantime the European Union is very clear: In the Statement by the Spokesperson on the murder of US journalist James Foley is said:

"We strongly condemn the outrageous murder of the US journalist James Foley by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. We express our sincere condolences to the family of this distinguished journalist, to his friends and colleagues. This brutal act, like the many other human rights violations which are perpetrated by the Islamic State, denies universally recognized values and rights, including the freedom of press for which Mr Foley had risked his life on several occasions. The EU will continue to promote the safety of journalists in the Middle-East and worldwide. Such forms of terrorism constitute one of the most serious threats to international peace and security. The EU is more committed than ever to support international efforts to fight terrorism, to combat human rights violations and to restore the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq and Syria. The EU will use all means at its disposal to contribute to this endeavour."

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Note:The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI)—also known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq or AQI—was the Iraqi division of the international Islamist militant organization al-Qaeda. Al-Baghdadi was announced as leader of the ISI on 16 May 2010, following the death of his predecessor Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in a raid the month before.

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Welcome

Welcome at this zone created by Marcus Ampe for the Belgian Free Christadelphians, where previous articles from the MSN Groups and Multiply are brought together and made available again to the general public. On 2012 October 26 this site came into development and new articles shall be added next to our main site and to the Christadelphian Ecclesia site: Christadelphian Ecclesia.
You are welcome at that site to find more articles.

All who want to follow Jesus/Jeshua (Yeshua/Yahsua) from Nazareth, the Christ, the Messiah and wants to be united with people who sincerely want to keep to those teachings of this masterteacher are welcome to share their love for Christ and their hope for the coming Kingdom.

The names "Christadelphia" and 'Christadelphian' is compounded of two Greek words: 'christos' and 'adelphoi' and means 'brethren in Christ'.

This site is created by a Free Christadelphian only bounded to Jesus Christ. We are open to anybody who wants to share the brotherly love of Christ. Coming together by a common belief in 'the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ' (Acts 8:12).

In the older Multiply messages links to Multiply shall not always work from 2012 December 1, but you shall be able to find them by copying and pasting the title in the search machine. I have worked on re-editing those links from 2005 onwards, so that they could work in the future, but it became a to much time consuming job, so I stopped doing it after a while. (My apologies for certain links not working any more.)

Thanks for visiting us and hope to see you again.

Welkom

Wij wensen allen welkom die hier op deze pagina's terecht komen en hopen dat zij geïnspireerd mogen geraken om verder de Bijbel ter hand te nemen en zelf op onderzoek te gaan wat er in de Heilige Schrift werkelijk staat.

De namen "Christadelphia" en "Christadelphian" is een samentelling van twee Griekse woorden : "Christos" en "adelphoi" en betekent 'broer in Christus'. De Christadelphians zijn een groep van mensen die samen verbonden zijn door hun gemeenschappelijk geloof betreffende de dingen aangaande het Koninkrijk van God en de naam van Jezus Christus (Jeshua, de Messias) (Handelingen van de Apostelen 8v12).
Christadelphian mensen zouden tot een wereldwijde gemeenschap moeten behoren, wiens doel is zo trouw als mogelijke de leerstelling en voorbeeld van Jezus/Jehsua Christus te volgen, zoals het geregistreerd staat in de Bijbel.
In een wereld die vol is van onzekerheden genieten wij van een eenvoudig, rechtstreeks en logisch geloof, dat nu al vrede en voldoening aanbiedt en de belofte van het nog te komen eeuwigdurende vreugderijk: het Koninkijk van God.

Op deze site, gecreëerd door Marcus Ampe voor de Vrije Belgische Christadelphians, of Broeders in Christus, zijn in oktober 2012 de vroegere berichten uit de MSN Groepen en Multiply samen gebracht en terug zichtbaar gemaakt voor het algemeen publiek.

Meerdere linken in de vroegere artikelen zullen vermoedelijk niet werken, maar u kan de titel dan kopiëren en plakken in het "Zoek" venster om zo bij het juiste artikel te komen. Ik maakte er werk van om de artikelen vanaf 2005 terug te editen en daarin de linken te vernieuwen, zodat zij terug zouden werken. Maar dit vroeg zo veel tijd dat ik het heb opgegeven. Daarom verzoek ik mij te verontschuldigen indien u een link tegen komt die niet meer werkt.

Vanaf 26 oktober 2012 is deze website opengesteld naar het publiek en zullen er in de toekomst nog enkele artikelen bij komen. Maar de meerderheid van de teksten zullen nu geplaatst worden op de site van de Vlaamse Broeders in Christus of Christadelphians en op de kerkgemeenschapssite
Christadelphian Ecclesia.

Graag ontmoeten wij u daar voor meerdere artikelen.

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