The World Must Take a Stand Against Assyrian Genocide
('Sure, but what's an Assyrian')
 

by Gerald McGlothlin

Recently a fourteen-year-old Assyrian young man was discovered crucified to death in the Iraqi city of Alb asra.

The ghastly crucifixion is just one of the hundreds of killings directly attributed to the Pope's remarks about someone else's historical comments about Islam, made centuries ago. Talk about think skin and long memories!

During the same week, a priest was kidnapped and in typical grizzly Muslim killing style, his throat was cut out.

But these are just two of many thousands of grizzly murders of Assyrian Christians at the hands of Muslims in recent years. Beheadings, rapes and beatings continue to be common occurrences in that region. Tragically, there have also been a growing number of reports of young Assyrian Christian women committing suicide after being raped and desecrated by men from Islamic groups.

But who cares? Most people don't even know what an Assyrian is, so I'll tell you. Assyrians were the ethnic group comprising the second world empire. Their historical peak followed the Egyptian Empire and preceded the Babylonian Empire. Most people probably assume the Assyrian race went extinct years ago but there are still a few million Assyrians left in this world, mostly in Northern Iraq, some in Syria or Turkey and some large concentrations of this remnant people in Modesto, California and Chicago.

But at the rate Muslims are murdering innocent Assyrians, this ancient people may very well become extinct.

These killings have already triggered a large exodus of Assyrian Christians from Iraq to Turkey and other nearby nations.  The London Guardian reports that the largest single group of refugees in Jordan this year were Christians from Iraq. Approximately 40 percent of Iraqi refugees seeking asylum are Assyrian Christians.
I am an Assyrian American (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) who as a young boy heard of how my great uncle was rounded up with 50 other Assyrian Christians who were all burnt alive in a Christian Church by Muslims (called Mohammedans in those days) for refusing to denounce Christ and convert to Islam.

But the sad thing about ?ethnic cleansing? is that by the time the world finds out who is being 'cleansed', it often is too late. The genocide of Assyrians needs to be stopped now. It is my hope, plea and prayer that the world will become aware of the Assyrian plight and intervene to save this fine people group.