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| We were robbed by our Arab neighbours, say Kurds fleeing Isil in Syria |
| 2014-10-15 |
| [TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The scarves worn by the men plundering the homes of Hassan Khashman and fellow Kurds as they made a desperate escape from invading Isil jihadists concealed their faces but not their identities. "These were people we all knew, our neighbours," said Mr Khashman, 40, a farmer, recalling the shocking sight of people he had lived alongside for a lifetime treating his property as fair game while his family fled the ethnically mixed Syrian village of Kanaiyah for their lives. "We saw Arabs going to our home and stealing stuff. They were even stealing our food. Some tried to sell our property in local markets." Similar tales abound among the thousands of Kurds who have left the besieged town of Kobane and surrounding villages for neighbouring Turkey in recent weeks as the region has been overrun by the ruthless and ideologically fervent fighters of the 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]. Compounding the pain of forced evacuation from their ancestral homes is the theft of their possessions ‐ including cars, farm animals and homes ‐ by people they thought they could trust. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 From Aesop's fables: HERMES AND THE ARABS |
| Posted by: James 2014-10-15 20:25 |
| #4 Could it be that French Jews were robbed by their neighbours but Polish and Ukranian Jews were murdered. The French Jews were rounded up and sent east to die in the concentration camps there, JFM. If there are stories of Frenchmen hiding their neighbours from the Nazis, they have not made their way to the American popular press. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-15 14:11 |
| #3 Could it be that French Jews were robbed by their neighbours but Polish and Ukranian Jews were murdered. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-10-15 10:28 |
| #2 Gee, sounds like what happened to French Jews in 1940. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-15 09:15 |
| #1 Of course the stole. They're ARABS. Thats what they do. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-10-15 02:58 |