Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own Mercy.
But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.
~ Jonah 2:8-9 ~
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The story of Jonah and the whale centers on the Old Testament town of Nineveh. God was displeased with the wickedness He found in that city and instructed Jonah to go and tell the people to repent. The prophet wanted nothing to do with the mission (the city was pagan – not Hebrew – and notorious for its cruelty) so he lit out in the opposite direction – by boat. Which is how he ended up in the whale… realized the error of his ways… and went off to follow God’s instructions. And the people of Nineveh heard him, believed and repented.
Jonah, the reluctant prophet, lived around 750 B.C.. So why bring up this old fossil in 2014? Well, the millennia-old site of the heathen town of Nineveh, is roughly where the northern Iraqi city of Mosul is located today.
And Mosul – recently overrun by the ruthless terrorist group ISIS – is apparently reverting back to barbarism ~ Christians Fleeing Iraq’s Mosul After Jihadist Ultimatum ~
(AFP) Christians were fleeing Iraq’s jihadist-held city of Mosul en masse Friday after mosques relayed an ultimatum giving them a few hours to leave, the country’s Chaldean patriarch and witnesses said […]
A statement dated from last week and purportedly issued by the Islamic State jihadist group that took over the city and large swathes of Iraq during a sweeping offensive last month warned Mosul’s Christians they should convert, pay a special tax, leave or face death.
“We were shocked by the distribution of a statement by the Islamic State calling on Christians to convert to Islam, or to pay unspecified tribute, or to leave their city and their homes taking only their clothes and no luggage, and that their homes would then belong to the Islamic State,” Sako said.
The patriarch, who is one of the most senior Christian clerics in Iraq, and residents contacted by AFP said Islamic State militants had in recent days been tagging Christian houses with the letter N for “Nassarah”, the term by which the Koran refers to Christians.
The statement, which was seen by AFP, said “there will be nothing for them but the sword” if Christians reject those conditions.
Even the Iraqi Prime Minister Condemns Jihadis’ Targeting of Christians ~
“What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group,” al-Maliki said in a statement released by his office, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.
“Those people, through their crimes, are revealing their true identity and the false allegations made here and there about the existence of revolutionaries among their ranks.”
Photo source: Breitbart
Iraq’s Christian communities date back to the first centuries of the religion. Before the 2003 U.S-led invasion, around 1 million Christians called Iraq home. But since then, the community has been a frequent target for militants, and attacks on churches, worshippers and clergymen has prompted many Christians to leave the country. Church officials now estimate the community at around 450,000.
“For the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians.”
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Another great article at Breitbart explains the gravity of the situation: Christian Holocaust Underway in Iraq, USA and World Look On ~
In a region where Christians predate Muslims by centuries, over one million Christians have been killed or have had to flee because of jihadi persecution, while America is basically standing by and watching […]
Dr. (Sebastian) Gorka (Breitbart’s National Security Editor) explained that “in the last 48 hours, ISIS, which is now called the Islamic State in Mosul, has painted the letter “N” for Nazarene on the houses of all the surviving Christians in the city. ISIS has basically given an ultimatum to all the Christians left: You can either flee or convert to Islam, or we will kill you.”
Gorka points out that, over the last 20 years, America has stood up around the world to save Muslims. “Whether it was to save the Muslims in Bosnia or the Albanians, Kosovars, and Muslims in Serbia, it is now time for a humanitarian operation to save the remaining Christians in Iraq,” he said. “It is time for the American people and our representatives to do something for our co-religionists remaining in the Middle East.”
Marlow observed that the blatant religious cleansing is horrifying and asked Gorka: “Why is it that the mainstream press is not interested in the story?” Gorka first responded by saying “Let’s face it, this is a Christian version of the Holocaust and nothing less.”
Islamists are now literally purging Mosul of Christians; the city is reverting to its Old Testament heathenism. As Gorka says, this is a human tragedy that the mainstream media – and thus most Americans – are just ignoring. That this outrage is occurring with little or no opposition from the west is simply unfathomable.
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Related:
Muslims Force The Last Living Christian In Mosul To Leave, ENDING 2000 YEARS OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE AREA
Muslims Declare War Against Catholicism, And Attack Priests And Monks, Forcing Them To Leave Immediately
