Isis And The Promotion Of Genocidal War Financial Times 09/08/2014 President Barack Obama’s decision to bomb the forces of Isis (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) – in order to blunt the danger of a genocidal mass killing of tens of thousands of Christians and Yazidis seeking shelter in the mountains of northern Iraq without food and water – reflects a much-needed change of policy, but could be too little too late. However, even more tragic has been the reaction or lack of it from leading Arab states including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, who now all feel threatened by the Isis advances but refuse to do anything about it. By dropping supplies and the use of “targeted” air power in Iraq, Mr Obama said he would try to prevent “a potential act of genocide”. At least 40,000 Yazidis are stranded on a mountain side surrounded by Isis forces, while tens of thousands of Christians are also fleeing after Isis captured Iraq’s largest Christian town of Qaraqosh and immediately started executing Christian policemen and civilians. Never before in modern Islamic history has a group so mercilessly set out to not only undo long-standing frontiers in Iraq and Syria, but also to carry out mass killings of Muslims and non-Muslims (Isis do not consider Shia as Muslims and has been executing them at will). Even in the heyday of the Islamic empire that stretched as far as Madrid and Vienna, no conqueror treated non-Muslims with the ultimatum of conversion to its version of Islam or be killed – as Isis is doing in every town it captures. The Christians, Jews, Yazidis (whose beliefs originate in Zoroastrianism) and many other minorities, who constitute the essence of the Arab world and a showcase[..].. To read the complete article, please follow the link below pakistan - interviews | Ahmed Rashid ahmedrashid/publications/pakistan/articles/ Ahmed Rashid ahmedrashid
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