The Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil stated that:
having faced for 1,400 years the slow-motion genocide that began
long before the ongoing ISIS genocide today, the time for excusing this inhuman
behavior and its causes is long since past
Iraqi
Archbishop Bashar Warda’s declaration is a fact of history that the willfully
blind refuse to see. This is key to understanding the global jihad that
continues to escalate, thanks to lax Western leaders who turn a blind eye to
the ideological roots of the jihad and continue to implement reckless
immigration policies.
With
reference to Trump’s temporary ban on Muslim countries of concern, Warda
once commented:
It is terrible to live with terrorism. My country lives with
terrorism daily. And if the United States wants to have a strong vetting
process, I can understand and appreciate that.
The rape
of infidel women, the beating of wives, the murder of apostates, throwing gays
off rooftops, FGM, stonings, the amputation of hands, decapitations, public
floggings, persecution of Christians, the murder of minority groups (including
Muslims for not being Muslim enough) are historic plagues. They did not begin
in recent times, but are mandated according to Islamic jurisprudence.
“Iraqi
Archbishop: Muslim ‘Slow-Motion Genocide’ of Christians Began 1400 Years Ago”,
by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, February 19,
2018:
The violent Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East
did not begin with the Islamic State’s rise to power in 2014, said Iraqi
Archishop Bashar Warda, but rather many centuries ago.
“Having faced for 1,400 years the slow-motion genocide that began
long before the ongoing ISIS genocide today, the time for excusing this inhuman
behavior and its causes is long since past,” said the Chaldean Archbishop of
Erbil in a forceful speech last week at Georgetown
University.
According to the archbishop, Islamic persecution of Christians in
the Middle East began with the founding of Islam itself in the 7th century, and
thus is a permanent fixture of Islam that was present from the very beginning.
“The harsh truth to this question is that without an end to this
persecution and violence there is no future for religious pluralism in Iraq or
anywhere else in the Middle East for that matter,” he said.
Warda’s thesis coincides exactly with that of Jesuit scholar
Father James V. Schall, who wrote in 2016 that Islam’s consistent advocacy of
violence has been practiced “from its seventh century beginning.”
In a sobering essay titled “Realism and Islam,” Schall,
who taught Political Philosophy at Georgetown University for many years and has
written more than two dozen books, insisted that the Muslim religion must be
evaluated on its own terms rather than through the lens of the Judeo-Christian
West.
Violence is intrinsic to the nature of Islam itself, and is not
just a symptom of extremism, Father Schall wrote. Its purpose, he proposed,
“is, ultimately, religious and pious.”
Recalling numerous acts of Islamic terror and violence in recent
years, Schall suggested that the most plausible way to judge such continuing
violence is by looking back at Islam over the centuries.
“To make this assessment, we have to acknowledge that Islam, in
principle, is actually and potentially violent throughout its entire history.”
Moreover, he wrote, the basic reason for this method “is obedience to the Law
of Allah.”
“What we see now is little different from what has been seen
throughout the centuries wherever Islam is found,” he says.
The reason that violence accompanies Islam wherever it goes,
Schall suggested, is that it is part of the essence of Islam and is called for
in the religion’s sacred texts.
“The designated and determined goal of the conquest of the world
for Allah has been reinvigorated again and again in world history from the time
of Mohammed in the seventh century,” Schall declared. “These revivals and
expansions, which have only been temporarily halted by superior counterforce,
have roots in the Qur’an itself and in its commentaries.”
In the past, scholars like Thomas Aquinas and Hilaire Belloc were convinced that the threat to
the West did not come from Muslim “extremists,” but rather from Islam itself.
Belloc famously called Islam “the most formidable and persistent enemy” of
Western civilization.
Such historical realism can be found not only among Christian
scholars, but among those raised as Muslims as well.
In 2016, a former Muslim recounted his story in a USA Today article titled “The Quran’s Deadly Role
in Inspiring Belgian Slaughter.”
The writer, Nabeel Qureshi, said that he when began to investigate
the Quran and the traditions of Muhammad’s life, “I found to my genuine
surprise that the pages of Islamic history are filled with violence.”
The author downplayed other explanations that have been given for
Islamic radicalization, such as the State Department’s suggestion that a “lack
of opportunity for jobs” was to blame.
“ISIL’s primary recruiting technique is not social or financial
but theological,” Qureshi wrote, recalling that the Islamic State appeals to
the highest sources of authority in Islam, the Quran and hadith (the collection
of the sayings of the prophet Muhammad), reminding Muslims of their duty to
fight against the enemies of Islam.
Qureshi wrote that the Internet “has made the traditions of
Muhammad readily available for whoever wishes to look them up, even in
English,” effectively bypassing centuries of tradition and their imams’
interpretations.
When Muslims do this, “they are confronted with the reality of
violent jihad in the very foundations of their faith,” he said.
In his address last week, Archbishop Warda called for historical
honesty from both Muslims and Christians. Sugar-coating the historical reality
of Islam, as well as the roots of violence in its foundational texts, will
benefit no one.
“When a people have nothing left to lose, in some sense it is very
liberating and from this position of clarity and newfound courage I must speak
to you honestly on behalf of my people and speak to you the truth,” Warda said.
The typical Muslim response to Islamic State atrocities, he
said, falls along the line of “ISIS does not represent Islam,” but rarely goes
further, with no recognition of past persecution of Christians or any
expression of remorse for it.
“We object that one faith has now the right to kill another. There
needs to be a change and a correction within Islam,” he said.
Estimates suggest that the Christian population in Iraq has fallen
to some 200,000, down from about 1.5 million in 2003.
“So many of our people have fled, and so few of us are left,”
Warda said….
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/02/iraqi-archbishop-muslim-slow-motion-genocide-of-christians-began-1400-years-ago
