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2019-07-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Jihadists rape, stone Christian woman to death in Syria
[Jpost] Islamic turbans from the Jihadist organization Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
stoned to death an Armenian Christian woman living in the Syrian province of Idlib.

Christian and human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
groups reported over the last week that the 60-year-old Suzan Der Kirkour was found dead outside of her village, al-Yaqoubiyeh.

According to the website of International Christian Concern (ICC), "An autopsy revealed that Suzan was tortured and repeatedly raped over an estimated period of nine hours. She was then stoned to death."

The French Christian humanitarian organization SOS Chrétien’s d’Orient, wrote that "cruel was her ordeal. The reality is just as much... (a) virgin at sixty, she died under the repeated assaults of the jihadists of al-Nusra."

"The autopsy reveals that Suzan had been subjected to repeated rape since the afternoon of Monday (the 8th) until early Tuesday morning, only hours before her discovery. As a martyr, she is joined in heaven by thousands of Christian brothers, who died in the arena of barbarism," SOS Chrétien’s d’Orient added.

SOS Chrétiens d’Orient describes itself as a non-political NGO that works "in the heart of the secured areas of the Middle East. It’s young and dynamic members, work on a 24/7 basis the field supporting the Christians of the East, whether Orthodox or Catholic, providing concrete and humanitarian material aid."

ICC wrote that Suzan worked as a gardener and Arabic teacher. After her retirement, she was a volunteer at the Kneye Village Church "where she helped youth achieve their baccalaureate."

Gay Pareehioners of Kneye Village Church discovered Suzan’s body.

Claire Evans, ICC’s Regional Manager for the Middle East, said, "Suzan was a pillar in her community. Her untimely death and the manner of her murder is horrifying. It further deepens the shadow which has fallen upon any Christians who have remained in Syria throughout nearly a decade of violent conflict. Rule of law, justice, and accountability must be restored in Syria. Otherwise, we are witness to the slow, but fierce, extermination of Christianity from a country where it has existed for over 2,000 years."

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights wrote on its website that it "learned that the body of a citizen woman in her fifties was found on Tuesday, the 9th of July, 2019, and it was revealed later that she is a Christian woman... Her body was found with marks of torture on it and, according to forensic medicine, the woman had been tortured for about 9 hours before she was stoned to death by unidentified persons."

ICC noted that "It is widely reported among locals that Suzan’s attackers were members of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group, which maintains a strong presence in the Idlib governorate. al-Yaqoubiyeh is a Christian village, but most of the women have left because of violent aggression from the terrorists. Some estimate that only 18 women, including Suzan, were living in the village."
Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Nusra 

#1 Gay Pareehioners of Kneye Village

I can't stop giggling at the evil audacity of Fred's little runaway code. wink
Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-18 04:00||   2019-07-18 04:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Paris politicians vilify and shun the SOS Chrétiens d'Orient, because it 'provides medical and food assistance to christian militia' in Iraq and Syria.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-18 05:50||   2019-07-18 05:50|| Front Page Top

#3 A Christian, not black nor a mom,
Meets Syria's Boko Haram.
How much does she scare 'em?
They make her their harem.
Scream media crickets, "Islam!"
Posted by Elmomp Thud3088 2019-07-18 12:22||   2019-07-18 12:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Too bad Christians don't espouse suicide like Islam. I would love to see the fleeting looks on their faces as the zaftig Christian babe turns out to be very skinny with a very large vest.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-07-18 15:28||   2019-07-18 15:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Jihadists rape, stone Christian woman to death in Syria

NPR's audience celebrates.
Posted by no mo uro 2019-07-18 15:34||   2019-07-18 15:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Struggling to fit Al Nusra into the rhyme scheme, Zenobia F? Though Boko Haram certainly fits as well when looking at the big picture...
Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-18 15:36||   2019-07-18 15:36|| Front Page Top

#7 
Too bad Christians don't espouse suicide like Islam.


Defense of yourself and others is moral for Christians, and doing it so you live and the attackers die is better than a brainless "suicide bomb".
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-07-18 20:55||   2019-07-18 20:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
Posted by SteveS 2019-07-18 21:15||   2019-07-18 21:15|| Front Page Top

#9 tw, sorry to say, rhyming "Nusra" didn't even occur to me. I'd just been listening to an NPR bit -- one of the ripest, plummiest voices ever heard on NPR waxing rhapsodic about the Chibok girls. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it strukc me how much more ink and handwringing they'd gotten, relative to all the other victims. Ack... rollover.
Posted by Elmomp Thud3088 2019-07-18 23:59||   2019-07-18 23:59|| Front Page Top

12:58 trailing wife









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