Once again, the terror imperative. “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows.” (Qur’an 8:60)
“Christian Journalist Targeted in Turkey,” International Christian Concern, April 17, 2020:
04/17/2020 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – An Assyrian Christian journalist currently living in Istanbul, Isa Karatus, has reported that gunshots were fired at his house in Mardin on the morning of April 14th. He does not regularly live at the Mardin house, and thus was not home when the attack occurred. An investigation is ongoing.
Karatus said to the media, “When we consider the increasing attacks and provocations against the Assyrians recently, this attack is likely to be scaring and intimidating for Assyrians who are considering returning to their villages.”
This follows a recent and ongoing investigation into the disappearance of the Diril couple, who were abducted by the PKK (a terrorist organization) in Eastern Turkey earlier this year. The elderly wife’s body was recently discovered. They had returned to their village in an attempt to rebuild the Assyrian Christian presence after the violence had forced them to leave several years ago. This incident has also been interpreted by the community as an attempt to scare Assyrian Christians from returning home.
Assyrian Christians were victims of the Ottoman-era genocide conducted against ethnic Christians a century ago. This genocide has never been recognized by the authorities, and the policies which facilitated the genocide have not been addressed….
mortimer says
750,000 Assyrian Christians were victims of the Fatwa of 1915 from the seat of the caliphate. The declaration of jihad against the enemies of Islam (excluding Turkey’s German allies) unleashed a tsunami of violence against the Christian subjects of the Ottoman Empire. A total of 3 million Christians of all ethnicities were genocided and their property and possessions seized. This ethnically cleansed Turkey of most of its Christian population in a matter of many months. They had mostly completed the process by 1924 and they topped it off by more killings and then deporting tens of thousands of indigenous Christian people whose families had lived in the region since the Stone Age.
When Muslims gain any power, they use it against non-Muslims and they usually try to enforce the discriminatory Pact of Omar that reduces the human rights of Christians to almost nothing.
These people were trying to restore a church destroyed by ISIS, but the Pact of Omar says churches may not be repaired.
gravenimage says
Turkey: Muslims fire shots at Christian journalist’s home, “scaring and intimidating for Assyrians”
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Muslims want to finish the Armenian Genocide, which targeted *all* Christians in Turkey–Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and Levantines.