On August 6, 2014, ten years ago, ISIS Islamist terrorists invaded the Nineveh Plains, a region in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n
A genocide against the Christians and Yazidis of the Nineveh Plains<\/big><\/p>\n The region was long inhabited by thousands of religious minorities, including Christians (Chaldeans, Syriacs and Assyrians) and Yazidis<\/strong>, a monotheistic religion that originated in ancient Mesopotamia. ISIS terrorists began a genocide in the region<\/strong>, aiming to expel, kill or force conversion to Islam of all non-Muslims.<\/p>\n A few days ago, the Catholic organization Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) recalled this genocide<\/a>, pointing out that 100,000 Christians were forced to flee the Nineveh Plains for refusing to renounce their faith<\/strong>. Many Christians forced to flee their homes have not been able to return: \"The Christian presence is gradually being revived. Today, in Nineveh, of the 13,200 families registered in 2014, 9,000 have returned<\/strong>, and in Qaraqosh (Iraq's main Christian city), where there were an estimated 50,000 Christians before the invasion, some 25,000 have returned,\"<\/em> ACN notes.<\/p>\n The destruction of the homes and temples of the Christians of Nineveh<\/big><\/p>\n An international coalition<\/strong> that was supported by several Western countries, including Spain, managed to defeat ISIS in northern Iraq<\/strong> and expel it from the Nineveh Plains. The situation they found after the expulsion of the terrorists was devastating: ISIS damaged or destroyed thousands of Christian homes.<\/strong> Thanks to the donations received by AIN, 13,000 of these homes were repaired. After this reconstruction phase, a second phase was launched to repair 363 church buildings damaged by the terrorists.<\/strong><\/p>\n The horror suffered by the Yazidis at the hands of ISIS<\/big><\/p>\n As for the Yazidis<\/strong>, thousands of them have been killed<\/a>. Furthermore, Yazidi women and girls (as young as 7 and 8) were raped by the terrorists<\/a>, and many were kidnapped and used by ISIS as sex slaves<\/strong>. The horror experienced by these women and girls reached international forums thanks to the testimony of Samia Sleman, a young Yazidi woman raped and kidnapped by ISIS when she was 13 years old<\/a>. Samia asked the UN to classify ISIS crimes as genocide.<\/strong> Ten years later, the UN has still not heeded this request.<\/p>\n The far left rejects sending Spanish military aid to Iraq<\/big><\/p>\n The attitude of the extreme left towards this genocide deserves to be remembered so that we never forget the level of vileness to which it is capable. In October 2014, the extreme left voted against sending Spanish soldiers to Iraq<\/a> in order to train the Iraqi Army to fight ISIS terrorists. Izquierda Unida, Comprom\u00eds and the BNG rejected the measure<\/strong>, a rejection that the BNG justified under the slogan \"no to war\", as if the ISIS genocide were going to be stopped with pacifist demonstrations.<\/p>\n Socialists and communists denounced a French attack on an ISIS position<\/big><\/p>\n In November 2015, the socialists of the PSOE and their communist partners from Izquierda Unida and Ganemos<\/strong> (one of the local brands of the far-left party Podemos) denounced a French attack against ISIS positions in Syria<\/a>, during a rally in memory of the 130 people killed by ISIS in France in the terrorist attacks of 13 November 2015. It is the same strategy of equating Islamist terrorists with democratic countries that the left has used against Israel<\/strong> following the Hamas terrorist attack on 7 October 2023.<\/p>\n The far left did not support the European resolution accusing ISIS of genocide<\/big><\/p>\n Similarly, in December 2016 the European Parliament described ISIS crimes against Christians and Yazidis in Iraq as genocide<\/a>. The resolution was approved with 470 votes in favour, 131 against and 26 abstentions. The extreme left did not want to support the resolution<\/a>, voting against it in some cases or opting to abstain.<\/p>\n A far-left MEP cited 'Islamophobia' to justify his vote<\/big><\/p>\n One of the far-left parties that voted against the resolution was the Spanish communist coalition Izquierda Unida<\/strong>. On Twitter, a user asked the then MEP for Izquierda Unida Javier Couso Permuy why he had voted against the resolution. The far-left MEP alleged<\/a> \"the use of certain religions above others and that in the end helps Islamophobia<\/strong>.\"<\/em> In other words, an Islamist terrorist organisation was committing genocide against Christians and Yazidis in Iraq, but what mattered to the far left was \"Islamophobia\".<\/p>\n The far left also did not support the European condemnation of the Hamas attack on Israel<\/big><\/p>\n As it happens, in October 2023, that same extreme left also refused to support the European resolution condemning the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel<\/a>, an attack that was the worst massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust. However, the far left has accused Israel of \"genocide\" for its counteroffensive against Hamas<\/a>, and has done so by accepting the false death tolls spread by that terrorist organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On August 6, 2014, ten years ago, ISIS Islamist terrorists invaded the Nineveh Plains, a region in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10375],"tags":[10713,12035,10497,22389,11785,8179,1062,8511,10576,22388,22387,693,7841,22391,10473,22390],"class_list":["post-56718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-history","tag-christianism","tag-european-parliament","tag-far-left","tag-ganemos","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-izquierda-unida","tag-javier-couso-permuy","tag-jihadism","tag-nineveh-genocide","tag-nineveh-plains","tag-psoe","tag-podemos","tag-samia-sleman","tag-united-nations","tag-yazidism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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