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| ISIL abducts dozens of Christians from Syrian town |
| 2015-08-08 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) forces of Evil have kidnapped dozens of Christian families after seizing a strategically located town in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on August 7. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 230 people were kidnapped, including dozens of Christians, some of whom were taken from a church in Qaryatain, the town captured overnight after heavy fighting with the Syrian army. Qaryatain is near a road linking the ancient city of Palmyra to the Qalamoun mountains, along the border with Leb. ISIL has killed members of religious minorities and Sunni Moslems who do not swear allegiance to its self-declared "caliphate". They also consider Christians as infidels. Last February, the hardline jihadists kidnapped at least 250 Assyrian Christians, many of whom were children and women, during raids on villages in northeastern Syria, in a mass abduction coinciding with an offensive in the same region by Kurdish forces backed by US led air strikes. The fate of many of these civilians is unclear, as is that of a number of priests who went missing and are believed to be held by the myrmidons, according to Christian groups. |
| Posted by:Fred |