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ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity (Tom Gjelten Quotes)
They don’t want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law (Tom Gjelten Quotes)
And the pressure to clarify what exactly is happening to Christians and other minorities in the Middle East is certain to intensify in the New Year (Tom Gjelten Quotes)
Holocaust Museum said ISIS has carried out genocide against the Yazidis, but its investigation did not cover Christian persecution. Now there’s concern the U.S. State Department might do the same, limiting any genocide pronouncement to Yazidis without mentioning Christians (Tom Gjelten Quotes)
A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of State John Kerry asking for a meeting to discuss what’s happening to Christians and other minorities. Nina Shea organized the effort (Tom Gjelten Quotes)
State Department lawyers need to have the evidence to back up the charge before they make it. Here’s Nebraska Republican Jeff Fortenberry questioning Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson at a House (Tom Gjelten Quotes)
The collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the massive subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat. The once-vaunted education and health care systems fell into disrepair. Fidel Castro’s stubbornness, meanwhile, made political and economic change difficult in Cuba. (Tom Gjelten Quotes)
ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity. (Tom Gjelten Quotes)
Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution. (Tom Gjelten Quotes)
Fidel Castro was not interested in personal enrichment. His supporters say he deployed his enormous authority on behalf of health, education and welfare programs that brought Cuba attention around the world. (Tom Gjelten Quotes)