Genocide in Nigeria, Armenia and Syria: The Persecution of Christians, December 2022

by Raymond Ibrahim • January 22, 2023 at 6:00 am

"These military attacks by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's regime are part of a wider Turkish policy of annihilation of the Kurdish and Assyrian [Christian] people in northern Syria and Iraq. Turkey has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, including bombing, shelling, abduction, torture, and extrajudicial killings. The attacks are part of Turkey's genocidal policies towards Kurds, Christians, and Ezidis." — Genocide Watch, December 7, 2022, Turkey.
"As scholars who study the process of genocide, we believe that the actions of the Azerbaijani government constitute a risk of genocide for the Armenians of the region. We urge international agencies and governments to ensure the free access of people and goods to Nagorno-Karabakh." — genocideprevention.am, December 13, 2022, Azerbaijan.
"Let it be put on record that in the hundreds of attacks [on Christians] that have...killed thousands since 2014, we have not seen anyone arrested and brought to book over these heinous crimes against humanity. Instead, it is southern Kaduna traditional leaders, clergy and human right activists that do get arrested and put in prison over trumped-up allegations of 'incitement.'" — Luka Biniyat, spokesman for the Southern Kaduna People's Union, Morning Star News, December 23, 2022, Nigeria.
On Dec. 17, a high-level Muslim official promulgated a new law saying that Christians could not celebrate Christmas without first obtaining a governmental permit. — Morning Star News, December 23, 2022, Indonesia.
Until 2017, when a new government came to power, churches had few problems. Since then, the authorities have capriciously shut down 20 churches, so that only 11 now remain open in the entire nation, with ongoing threats that they too might be shut down. — mnonline.org, December 1, 2022, Algeria.
"The persecution of Egypt's Christian Copts is the longest ongoing persecution in the history of mankind, from 642, to today, 2022. Through all this time, maybe 70 years under British occupation were peaceful and good—the 'golden era' for Copts in all this duration.... I know of no group that has been persecuted for nearly 1400 years—with still no light at the end of the tunnel." — Magdi Khalil, author who specializes in the situation of minorities in the Middle East, copticsolidarity.org, December 12, 2022, Egypt.
"After converting to Christianity... five days later, I started receiving threatening messages on my phone of risking being killed for leaving Islam. Please pray for us, for God to heal us quickly to enable us look for where to go." — Abdu Muyinga, Morning Star News, December 18, 2022, Uganda.

Muslims on social media slammed a popular Liverpool soccer player, Mohamed "Mo" Salah, after he posted a picture of his family by a Christmas tree captioned with "#MerryChristmas." One Muslim wrote: "I shall be unfollowing you and stop supporting Liverpool because you are celebrating Christmas with the Christians." (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)

The following are among the murders and abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of December 2022:

Genocidal Jihad against Christians

Turkey: Between November 20-25, 2022, Turkey launched 2,500 attacks—air, mortar, drone, artillery, etc.—several miles deep across Syria's northern border. Governed by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), this is also where most of Syria's religious minorities—Christians, Yazidis and Kurds -- live, who were earlier persecuted by the Islamic State ("ISIS"). At least 48 people were killed and dozens wounded. The assault also destroyed or damaged 2,300 civilian homes and buildings, including a children's hospital, a health center, an electrical power station, essential oil and gas processing facilities, critical grain towers, and a major bakery. Lethal Turkish attacks have continued, prompting Genocide Watch to issue a Genocide Emergency Alert on December 7, 2022:

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Ukraine: Waiting for the Stinger Moment

by Amir Taheri • January 22, 2023 at 4:00 am

[W]hen Putin's invasion of Ukraine came, most analysts still saw war as a short hymn to victory not a long symphony of death in four movements.
Heading for its second year, the Ukraine war seems set to become a long symphony of death rather than short hymn to victory.
No war is won or lost until one side admits defeat or one side totally destroys the other side. Hitler could not admit defeat, a possibility that was urged on him even until 1944, because that would have meant the end of his Reich.
I think that the Biden administration as its principal European allies, Germany and France, lack the vision, or the courage, to provide Ukraine with the hardware needed to threaten Russia's sense of immunity. Writing fat checks, offering a limited range of recycled weapons, and diplomatic gesticulations such as setting up a tribunal against Putin and his associates, won't shorten this symphony of death.
The war in Afghanistan was shortened when President Ronald Reagan's administration supplied the anti-Soviet insurgency with Stinger missiles that ended the Red Army's control of the skies with helicopter gunships and troop carriers.
The Stinger moment that could shorten this war has not yet arrived.

Heading for its second year, the Ukraine war seems set to become a long symphony of death rather than short hymn to victory. The war in Afghanistan was shortened when President Ronald Reagan's administration supplied the anti-Soviet insurgency with Stinger missiles that ended the Red Army's control of the skies. Pictured: Afghan militiamen stand beside the debris of a Soviet helicopter they shot down with a Stinger missile in Sanglakh Valley, Afghanistan in June 1987. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago, many analysts expected a quick catharsis in line with the prevailing view of war as a short hymn to military power.

That view had taken shape over many decades as memories of wars in ancient times through the 18th century faded. The 200-year long Roman-Persian War was far away as were the Hundred Years' War and the Thirty Years' War in Europe. Wars became shorter and shorter. The Napoleonic Wars, starting with the French Revolution, lasted 23 years.

The American Civil War lasted four years, as did the First World War. The Second World War lasted five years. The Philippine-American War lasted three years as did the Korean War. The Spanish-American War lasted eight months, while the Mexican-American War took two years.

As always there was one exception to the new rule: the Vietnam War that lasted almost 10 years.

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