By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--August 10, 2014
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“The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war and currently states: The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century. “The officials described the changes on condition of anonymity because the document still was being written, and the White House would not discuss it.”As far as is known, to date the only Western leader to register flippancy about al Qaeda-linked terrorists in Iraq and Syria is Obama, who downplayed their threat to the civilized world as bush league. “In a wide-ranging interview with the New Yorker, President Barack Obama compared Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq and Syria to junior varsity basketball players, downplaying their threat as small-league. He also shared what he thought were the chances of reaching Middle East peace agreements. (The Blaze, Jan. 20, 2014)
“New Yorker editor David Remnick pointed out to the president that the Al Qaeda flag is now seen flying in Falluja in Iraq and in certain locations in Syria, and thus the terrorist group has not been “decimated” as Obama had said during his 2012 reelection campaign. “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama told Remnick. “I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.” “Remnick characterized Obama’s analogy as “uncharacteristically flip.” “While the New Yorker referred to the initials for junior varsity as “jayvee,” it is more commonly written as “JV.”There are no words to describe the horror of the Islamist State. Islamist State terrorists are now beheading little children, leaving their corpses hanging in parks, crucifying children, burying children alive, and cutting the body of a 5 year old in half. All these evil deeds should be laid right on the doorstep of the Islamist State.
--Episcopal News Service Aug. 8, 2014 [Anglican Communion News Service] “The five-year-old son of a founding member of Baghdad’s Anglican church was cut in half during an attack by the Islamic State on the Christian town of Qaraqosh. In an interview Aug. 8, an emotional Canon Andrew White told ACNS that he christened the boy several years ago, and that the child’s parents had named the lad Andrew after him. “I’m almost in tears because I’ve just had somebody in my room whose little child was cut in half,” he said. “I baptized his child in my church in Baghdad. This little boy, they named him after me – he was called Andrew. ” The fact that Andrew’s brother was named George after St George’s Anglican Church in Iraq’s capital demonstrates the strong ties the family had to the church there. The boy’s father had been a founder member of the church back in 1998 when the Canon had first come to Baghdad. White added, “This man, before he retired north to join his family was the caretaker of the Anglican church. ” Baghdad is part of the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf, which is included in the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, a member church of the Anglican Communion. Though the move north should have proved safer for the Iraqi Christian family, the Islamic State made sure that it became a place of terror. “This town of Qaraqosh is a Christian village so they knew everybody there was part of their target group,” said White. “They [the Islamic State] attacked the whole of the town. They bombed it, they shot at people. ” The Islamic State group captured Qaraqosh overnight Aug. 6/7 after the withdrawal of Kurdish forces.”What kind of a president who claims War on Women savior status could make light of terrorists who make the practice of ‘Sabaya’ (war booty slaves), in an ongoing Sex Slave Market to sell hundreds of Christian women? Denude the Islamic State of any and all acronyms. In lower case, IS translates to the word ‘is’ when the Christian world prays fervently to make the Islamic State ‘was’. May the Creator deliver us from the evil of the Islamic State and from all those who would make light of their unspeakable deeds.
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