Libertarianism????? REALLY??????????? I MISSED THE MASS CONVERSIONS TO RANDIAN OBJECTIVISM.
David On Jun 12, 2014, at 1:41 PM, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote: > Disaster for Christians in Mosul > -Christians in America wash hands of mess > it doesn't concern us, they say, > besides they are too busy with other priorities > and who cares about believers in the Mid East anyway? > And everyone knows that the market will take care of things. > > So long Christian faith, hello replacement for Christian faith > -its called libertarianism, but repackaged as piety. > > This is what it amounts to. > > > BR opinion > > > ========================================== > > > > World magazine > Christians flee Mosul's terrorist takeover > > Iraq | One Iraqi pastor says this could be the last exodus from what was once > a Christian stronghold > > By Mindy Belz > Posted June 10, 2014, > > > Ninety-nine percent of the Christians have left Mosul," pastor Haitham > Jazrawi said today following the takeover of Iraq's second largest city--and > its ancient Christian homeland--by al-Qaeda-linked jihadist militants. > A mass exodus of Christians and Muslims is underway from the city of 1.8 > million after hundreds of gunmen with the Islamic State of Iraq and the > Levant (ISIL) overran the city and forced out the Iraqi army and the police. > Reports indicate Iraqi army units abandoned their posts, in the process > giving up U.S.-provided weapons and vehicles, including Humvees, in what was > a key base of operations for U.S. military forces throughout the Iraq war. > Long a city of diverse religious and ethnic makeup--with Arabs and Kurds, and > a large population of Assyrian Christians--Mosul was a flashpoint during the > eight-year conflict. > > More than 150,000 residents fled the city today, the BBC reports, and photos > on Twitter and elsewhere showed massive traffic jams on roads leading into > the desert. > > Iraq's parliament declared a state of emergency, even asking Iraqi civilians > to take up arms against the fighters, but the government of President Nouri > al-Maliki seemed impotent to drive back the militants, who have already taken > over areas near Baghdad and make up a potent force fighting the government in > neighboring Syria. > > Locals say ISIL gunmen began arriving in Mosul on Friday, killing 21 > policemen along with others, and eventually capturing the airport, along with > military helicopters and vehicles. At the University of Mosul, according to > local media reports, the insurgents took 70 female students hostage. By > Monday, thousands of Christians fled Mosul to nearby enclaves and to cities > under the Kurdish Regional Government's control. > > A representative for U.S.-based watchdog Open Doors in Iraq reported that 200 > families found shelter at Mar Matti, the fourth-century hillside monastery > about 10 miles from Mosul, while about 50 families have taken refuge in a > monastery in Alqosh, the ancient home of Nahum the prophet. Surrounding Mosul > is Nineveh Plains, an area of scattered Christian villages, and several > schools there became sanctuaries for the fleeing Christian families. > > "If this continues, Mosul soon will be emptied of Christians," said a > spokesman for Open Doors, not named for security reasons. "This could be the > last migration of Christians from Mosul." > > Already Iraq's Christian population, once one of the oldest in the world, has > been decimated since the 2003 U.S. invasion--cut by most estimates to less > than half its size a decade ago. But recent focus has been on the churches in > Baghdad, where violence has skyrocketed this year, compared to northern areas > like Mosul. > > While the Maliki government has struggled to recompose itself following April > elections that gave the Shiite president a third term, ISIL has been on the > move--taking control of Fallujah in January and moving into Ramadi, only 80 > miles from the capital, in March. The resurgent terrorists, once known as > al-Qaeda in Iraq, want to overthrow the Iraqi and Syrian governments to > establish a Sunni Muslim caliphate in the Middle East. > > "Christian families are terrified", one Iraqi told World Watch Monitor. A > Christian man in Mosul reached by phone said, "I was able to make my wife and > children leave Mosul, but now I am stuck in the house and can't move." > > As Iraqi forces scramble to respond, reports are emerging of ISIL fighters > moving south toward Kirkuk and the country's strategic oilfields. That's > where Jazrawi pastors one of the country's oldest evangelical churches. "No > one knows what will happen to us in the next days," he told me today by > email. "Pray for us. We still believe that our Lord wants us to stay in Iraq." > > > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. 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