{"id":990,"date":"2014-08-03T03:10:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T07:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2014-08-03T03:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T07:10:06","slug":"show-your-support-of-middle-east-christians-suffering-ethnic-cleansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Show Your Support of Middle East Christians Suffering Ethnic Cleansing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nShow solidarity with Christians in the Middle East who are suffering ethnic cleansing\u00c2\u00a0at the hands of the murdering\u00c2\u00a0ISIL “the Islamic State”. These are descendants of ancient Christians who settled in Iraq and Syria 2000 years ago — which is 600 years before the religion of Islam even existed. Now they are being killed or forced from their homes by the tens of thousands. Besides killing their\u00c2\u00a0Christian victims by beheading,\u00c2\u00a0the Islamic State\u00c2\u00a0army are also crucifying some\u00c2\u00a0victims. Videos of both methods surfaced\u00c2\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n

Many Twitter and Facebook people have changed their profile photo \/ image \/ icon to this black and gold image. Friend Christine Chase\u00c2\u00a0is displaying this symbol and\u00c2\u00a0tells here\u00c2\u00a0what it means:<\/p>\n

“In Iraq, the homes of Christians are being marked with this by ISIS\u00c2\u00a0aka ISIL\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0their Sympathizers. It is the Arabic “N” for “Nazarene”, marking the people so identified as Christians. In much the same way the yellow star marked Jews in Germany. I and some others have adopted it as our avatar as a sign of solidarity with those so marked.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Egyptian\u00c2\u00a0Muslim Brotherhood\u00c2\u00a0under the Morsi government\u00c2\u00a0forced the Egyptian Coptic Christians (whose ancestors were there since the beginning of Christianity 2000 years ago) wear black crosses on their clothing, and black crosses were spray painted on their houses, cars and shops. The guy that made the video that supposedly caused the Benghazi Libyan hit on the US consulate there was a Coptic Christian from Egypt. I used to go to church with ancient Copts (because they are Eastern Orthodox like the Greeks, Russians and Ukrainians.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Copts are so cool. It’s ashame they are being chased out of Egypt in droves.<\/p>\n

Luckily the Egyptian Army kicked out the Muslim Brotherhood and the Christian citizens have a better chance, although their churches are still getting burned and their houses are still getting marked with black crosses.\u00c2\u00a0 My daughter says she wants to wear a black cross in honor of the persecuted Christians and we discussed putting the Arabic “N” as shown above onto our front door.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, we’re Nazarenes, you got a problem with it? we will be saying.<\/p>\n

Wish we could do more, something tangible to help those suffering in Iraq on the Ninevah plain especially.\u00c2\u00a0 I am still sick just thinking of that video showing the Islamic State freaks blowing up the 1600 year old church that surrounded the 27oo year old(!) tomb of Jonah (the guy swallowed by the whale in the Old Testament).\u00c2\u00a0 They blew it up two weeks ago, just like the Taliban blew up the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan, the only standing Buddhas in thee world.\u00c2\u00a0 Muslim extremists are on the rise everywhere it seems.\u00c2\u00a0 They are perpetrating ethnic cleansing in Africa (Boko Haram kidnapping the school girls), the Middle East, and no doubt want to keep going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Show solidarity with Christians in the Middle East who are suffering ethnic cleansing\u00c2\u00a0at the hands of the murdering\u00c2\u00a0ISIL “the Islamic State”. These are descendants of ancient Christians who settled in Iraq and Syria 2000 years ago — which is 600 years before the religion of Islam even existed. Now they are being killed or forced … Continue reading Show Your Support of Middle East Christians Suffering Ethnic Cleansing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-times","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}