Obama says he is for religious freedom; why no comment about this anti-Christian crusade by Muslims? - Granite Grok

Obama says he is for religious freedom; why no comment about this anti-Christian crusade by Muslims?

Convert, move, pay the Jizya infidel tax, or die

ISISFrom Yahoo News, this snippet from an announcement the newly emerging Islamic State (“Caliphate”) saying they are taking their “country” back to Muslim traditions with respect to Christians (reformatted, emphasis mine):

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamist insurgents have issued an ultimatum to northern Iraq’s dwindling Christian population to either convert to Islam, pay a religious levy or face death, according to a statement distributed in the militant-controlled city of Mosul.  The statement issued by the Islamic State, the al Qaeda offshoot which led last month’s lightning assault to capture swathes of north Iraq, and seen by Reuters, said the ruling would come into effect on Saturday.

It said Christians who wanted to remain in the “caliphate” that the Islamic State declared this month in parts of Iraq and Syria must agree to abide by terms of a “dhimma” contract – a historic practice under which non-Muslims were protected in Muslim lands in return for a special levy known as “jizya”.

In other words, pay a “tribute” to their Muslim overlords to be   left alone (not to say, alive).  Imagine the uproar if a Judeo-Christian country said the same thing about Muslims?  You know, I hear all the time from the Left / secular humanists /atheists that Christians here in the US want to establish “a theocracy” and yell, moan, and groan incessantly.  Yet, when have real ones shoved in their faces (e.g., Iran, and now this emergent Islamic State), they grow extremely silent.  Obama can certainly be counted among their number on this.

“We offer them three choices: Islam; the dhimma contract – involving payment of jizya; if they refuse this they will have nothing but the sword,” the announcement said.  A resident of Mosul said the statement, issued in the name of the Islamic State in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, had been distributed on Thursday and read out in mosques.  It said Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which the group has now named Caliph Ibrahim, had set a Saturday deadline for Christians who did not want to stay and live under those terms to “leave the borders of the Islamic Caliphate”.  “After this date, there is nothing between us and them but the sword,” it said.

Yup, merely a friendly offer from the “Religion of Peace”

 

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