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ISIS Abducts 90 Syrian Christians

ISIS has abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in the northeastern part of Syria.

The British-based Observatory for Human Rights say the terrorists conducted dawn raids on villages west of Hasaka, a town controlled by the Kurds.  The Kurds had launched two major offensives against the terrorists on Sunday helped by U.S. airstrikes.

Kurdish leaders said that 14 terrorists were killed in their offensive.

ISIS refuses to admit they conducted the kidnappings although they posted pictures on social media showing the assault.

Assyrian Christians made up the majority of citizens of the region before the terrorists began their campaign.   Those remaining in the village after the raid are packing and fleeing to Hasaka seeing safety.

Displaced Iraqi Christian Girl Asks God To “Forgive ISIS”

She had to flee her home when ISIS began an invasion and now lives in an unfinished mall in northern Iraq.

Yet little Myriam is thanking God for a place to live and her heart is full of forgiveness for those who destroyed her old life and killed dozens of her friends.

An Arabic Christian network interviewed children living in the Ainkawa Mall’s refugee camp about their lives since they had to flee ISIS.

“We used to have a house and were entertained, where as here we are not,” Myriam said. “But thank God. God provides for us.”

“God loves us and wouldn’t let ISIS kill us,” she explained.

The reporter covering the story asked Myriam what she would do if she had the power to take action against the terrorists that destroyed her home.

“I won’t do anything to them,” Myriam asserted. “I will only ask God to forgive them.”

Other children told the reporter they missed their schools and their churches.  All of them made similar statement: “Jesus will be with us no matter where we go.”

ISIS Burns To Death 45 Iraqis

ISIS has burned alive 45 Iraqi citizens for a variety of alleged crimes against the terrorist’s rules.

Al-Baghdadi Local Police Chief Qasim al-Obeidi told the BBC that some of those killed were members of the Iraqi Security Forces which has been the main force fighting to stop the spread of ISIS.

The massacre comes as the State Department’s main spokeswoman, Marie Harf, says that ISIS can’t be beaten by force.

“We’re killing a lot of them, and we’re going to keep killing more of them,” she stated. “So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians. They’re in this fight with us. But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war.”

“We can work with countries around the world to help improve their governance,” she said. “We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people.”

The ISF is working to drive ISIS out of al-Baghdadi but has been unable to dislodge the terrorists.

ISIS Killing Doctors For Not Harvesting Body Parts

Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations is calling for the world body to investigate reports that ISIS is killing doctors who will not harvest organs for sale on the black market.

Ambassador Mohamed Alhakim said that dozens of bodies have been found in shallow graves with surgical incisions.  Examinations of the bodies show that organs like the kidneys, livers and hearts missing.

“Surgeries take place within a hospital and organs are quickly transported through networks specialized in trafficking human organs. Mosuli said that the organs come from fallen fighters who were quickly transported to the hospital, injured people who were abandoned or individuals who were kidnapped,” a report printed by the London Daily Mail read.

Alhakim said they have confirmed reports of a dozen doctors being killed in Mosul for refusing to take organs from dying people.  He said that the group is using the tactic more to offset losses in exports of oil from seized drilling rigs.

The UN’s envoy to Iraq, Nikolay Miadenov, confirmed some of the ambassador’s claim sand said that 790 people have been confirmed dead from terrorism at the hands of ISIS.

Administration Criticized For Refusing To Acknowledge Christian Martyrs

The Obama administration is coming under fire from Christian leaders after President Obama refused to acknowledge that ISIS killed 21 Coptic Christians because of their faith in Christ.

President Obama called the men “Egyptian citizens.”

“ISIS made very clear in this video that this was an execution of ‘people of the cross.’ ISIS apparently has no difficulty saying ‘Christian,’ while the White House has a very difficult time,” Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said.

“Why not say to these Christians who are being killed for their faith that they’re welcome to come here and have refugee status here in the United States or safe haven here in the United States?” he asked.

Retired General Jack Keane agreed with Perkins and said that Americans and the world need to realize the truth of the video.

“Clearly, this is a global jihad right before our eyes,” Gen. Keane said.

The White House is hosting a summit on how to “counter violent extremism.”

ISIS Magazine Calls Islam “Religion Of The Sword”

The newest edition of an ISIS online propaganda magazine says that despite the claims of Muslim leaders around the world that Islam is a “religion of peace” that Islam is really a “religion of the sword.”

“There is a slogan repeated continuously by apologetic ‘du’at’ [callers for Islam] when flirting with the West and that is their statement: ‘Islam is the religion of peace,’ and they mean pacifism by the word peace,” reads the ISIS article, which was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

“How far is their claim from the truth, for Allah has revealed Islam to be the religion of the sword, and the evidence for this is so profuse that only a zindiq (heretic) would argue otherwise.”

The propaganda article from the group quotes passages in the Quran that ISIS claims tells Muslims to cut the heads of anyone who is not a follower of their faith.

“His Messenger … also described the sword as the salvation from evil and fitnah [strife]. [He] also described the sword as being the key to Jannah [paradise],” the article asserts. “He also declared that his worldly provision was placed for him in the shade of his spear and that the best livelihood for the Muslim in the future is what he takes with his sword from the kafir [unbelieving] enemy.”

A leading expert on ISIS theology quoted in the Christian Post says that many western Muslims have a “cotton-candy view” of Islam and they overlook what their holy book says is required of them to be a true follower.

“People want to absolve Islam,” Bernard Haykel of Princeton University says in an interview with The Atlantic. “It’s this ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ mantra. As if there is such a thing as ‘Islam’! It’s what Muslims do, and how they interpret their texts.”

Haykel says it’s wrong to say ISIS is un-Islamic because their tactics are barbaric.

“The only principled ground that the Islamic State’s opponents could take is to say that certain core texts and traditional teachings of Islam are no longer valid,” he continues. “What’s striking about them is not just the literalism, but also the seriousness with which they read these texts. … There is an assiduous, obsessive seriousness that Muslims don’t normally have.”

ISIS Cuts Off Women’s Hands For Using Cell Phone

New reports of the brutality of ISIS are coming from Iraq including their chopping off the hands of women who were using cell phones.

A witness reported that ISIS caught women using cell phones in the city of Mosul and proceeded to cut off their hands for it.  Five men who were caught using cell phones were bound and whipped for “illegal use of the devices.”

“The ISIS militants cut three women’s hands off for unknown charges,” the man claimed. “They also whipped five people for using cell phones to contact their relatives while standing on the celebration stage in the Cultural Compound in central Mosul.”

The terrorists then told the citizens of Mosul if they were found using a cellphone, they would be given at least 30 lashes.

“In order to shut one of the doors of penetration the enemy uses to attain its goals and strike with exactness by means of its war and remote-guided aircraft, it has been decided to forbid the use of any electronic device or a system that has access to service to enable precise location of positions,” the ISIS statement declared.

The terrorist group has cut off all landlines into the city and destroyed cell phone towers to keep the town isolated from the world.

Egypt Bombs ISIS In Libya

Egyptian planed bombed ISIS targets in Libya Monday in a direct response to the terrorist’s killing of 21 Coptic Christians shown in a video this weekend.

The planes struck militant camps, training sites and at least one weapons storage area.

The terrorists have taken advantage of the unstable government in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.  The strikes by the Egyptian military are the first direct actions in Libya’s territory by the new Egyptian government.

The military issued a call to terrorists to say that Libya is not a safe haven for anyone who would issue a terrorist attack.

“And let those near and far know that the Egyptians have a shield that protects and preserves the security of the country, and a sword that eradicates terrorism,” the Egyptian military said in a statement.

The current Libyan government also participated in the attacks on ISIS.

Pope Francis issued a condemnation of the killings, saying that the 21 were killed only because they were Christians.

Middle East observers say the action by Egypt are part of a campaign of leaders in the region to tell ISIS they will not be moved.

“It’s swift and decisive, it’s not about strategy, it’s about containing anger within Egypt,” said Hassan Hassan, co-author of a book on Islamic State.

“Just like in Jordan, it’s more about saving face, saying: ‘You can’t mess with us’. …. It’s likely to evolve into a sustained strategy of helping in the fight against ISIS (Islamic State) in neighboring countries.”

ISIS Video Shows Massacre Of 21 Christians

ISIS released a video on Sunday of terrorists loyal to ISIS beheading 21 Coptic Christians.

The Libyan terrorists marched the Christians down a beach, lined up them up and then beheaded each of them.

“Safety for you crusaders is something you can only wish for,” a knife-wielding militant says on camera.  “We will conquer Rome, by Allah’s permission.”

The terrorists identify themselves as the Tripoli Province of the Islamic State.  The terrorists have claimed to be holding the 21 Christians for weeks.

The Egyptian government declared a seven-day mourning period for the slain Christians.  President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi offered his condolences to “the victims of terrorism” according to a Presidential statement.

Egyptians have fled to surrounding nations to find work in the wake of the 2011 Islamist uprising in Egypt.

ISIS Bombers Killed After Breaching Base With U.S. Marines

Eight ISIS bombers are dead after they attempted to breach a base in Iraq that was housing U.S. Marines.

Iraqi Security Forces were able to stop the bombers at the Ain al-Asad air base before they could reach the areas housing the U.S. troops.  Coalition forces were the ones who identified the bombers to the ISF.

“The ISF supported by Coalition surveillance assets defeated the attack, killing all eight attackers,” the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve outlined in a statement. “The ISF have since re-secured their facility.”

“Coalition forces were several kilometers from the attack and at no stage where they under direct threat from this action.”

The Ain al-Asad air base reportedly is being attacked daily by ISIS but U.S. officials have described them as “nuisance attacks” with no real substance.  The base is where at least 300 Marines are training Iraqi security forces.