RETIREDFAN1 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Muslim insurgents behead 14-year-old Christian boy Attack happened at Iraq plant where victim was running electric generator -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: October 31, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com A website in Assyria is confirming that a 14-year-old Christian boy who was working a 12-hour shift maintaining an electric generator has been murdered by Muslim insurgents. The Assyrian International News Agency said the tragedy was reported by an Assyrian language web page at www.ankawa.com. (Story continues below) The youth was identified as Ayad Tariq, who lived in Baqouba, Iraq, and was at work on Oct. 21 when a group of "disguised Muslim insurgents" went into the power plant shortly after his shift began at 6 a.m. The website reported the insurgents asked him for his identification and, according to other witnesses who hid and stayed alive to report on the attack, questioned his identification card's reference to him as a "Christian." Are you truly a "Christian sinner," they asked. "Yes, I am Christian but I am not a sinner," he replied. The insurgents then called him a "dirty Christian sinner," grabbed his limbs and held them while beheading him, the witnesses reported. They were shouting, "Allahu akbar! Allahu Akbar!" during the murder, witnesses said. An organization called AssyrianChristians.com said they are the indigenous people of Iraq, with a population that has been in the Middle East from the time of Christ. However, they have faced a number of purges by the region's rulers over time, including the present attacks by powerful Islamic factions across Iran, Iraq and neighboring nations, officials said. Only two generations back, Assyrian Christians made up 20 percent of the population of the Middle East, but during the Assyrian Genocide of 1915, an estimated three million Christians were slaughtered there, the organization said. Current estimates are that there are about 2.5 million Assyrian Christians in Iraq. Kenneth Scott LaTourette wrote in "A History of Christianity" that the Assyrian Christians became the first nation to accept Christianity, and one of the largest missionary-sending peoples in Christian history. "The Assyrian Christians are one of the last remaining Christian communities in the Middle East," said Rev. Ken Joseph Jr., of the Assyrian Christians organization. Tens of thousands of Assyrian Christians have fled their traditional homelands in recent months, officials confirmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino2K Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Funny how this "religion" has great appeal to convicts in our country's prisons. :turned: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidAndroid Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Originally posted by Rhino2K4Funny how this "religion" has great appeal to convicts in our country's prisons. :turned: Funny, most convicts become Christians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino2K Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Originally posted by ParanoidAndroid Originally posted by Rhino2K4Funny how this "religion" has great appeal to convicts in our country's prisons. :turned: Funny, most convicts become Christians. Not true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidAndroid Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Maybe not most, but a lot. People who have nothing left to live for often turn to religion. I'm just trying to say that this really isn't a scenario where one generalization (as far as specific a religion is concerned) fits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino2K Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 I know what you mean Android. Participation in Islamic and Wiccan services in TDCJ have outpaced christian services by a two to one margin over the past few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Is this relevant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino2K Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Yes. It is a hint to what kind of mentality is drawn or attracted to Islam. Of course, in the prison system, convicts use Islam as a "cover" to conduct extortion activities and gang business. Sound familiar??!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 The Sopranos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Middle Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Most people who are strongly religious have no concept of reality anyway. I'm not surprised these zealots beheaded somebody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straw Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Originally posted by Rhino2K4Yes. It is a hint to what kind of mentality is drawn or attracted to Islam. Of course, in the prison system, convicts use Islam as a "cover" to conduct extortion activities and gang business. Sound familiar??!! Yes it does. The same way they used Christianity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino2K Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 You're right strawberry. Christianity is used as a "cover" too. Remember that psycho Warren Jeffs? The scumbag used fundamental christianity as a guise to commit sexual acts with underaged girls. I have a problem with certain aspects of christianity too, but I won't go into that now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 The same way who used christianity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Rhino, Warrenn Jeffs spun christianity into a colt, it was not fundamental christianity, he made those people he was God. And it wasnt just underaged girls, he had 80 wives, and molested little boys as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Middle Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 A "cult," you mean? He's a Mormon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino2K Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Originally posted by EagleRhino, Warrenn Jeffs spun christianity into a colt, it was not fundamental christianity, he made those people he was God. I know. He was the leader of a cult where he imposed his sick doctrine over his followers. I do understand that the beliefs of this psycho cult was far removed from fundamental christianity. I stand corrected. Thanks Eagle. ;) BTW Middle, Jeffs isn't a "mainstream" Mormon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Middle Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Neither are the terrorists mainstream Islam. It's very easy to take any religion too far. Come to think of it, those Catholic priests supposedly liked little boys; they're about as mainstream Christian you can get. It's just people and religion taking it in the wrong direction and using it for the wrong things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino2K Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 I agree. The problem I have with religion in general, is that many people take it too far. They use religion to force their will (not God's will, Allah's will, Budda's will, ect...) over their followers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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