ISIS Persecution of Christians 'Worst Since Holocaust,' Warns 'Vicar of Baghdad'

By Leah Marieann Klett
Sep 03, 2014

As reports continue to surface that the Islamic State is committing unspeakable war crimes in the Middle East, a humanitarian group working in Iraq confirm that the persecution of religious minorities is " like nothing that has been seen since the days of the Holocaust."

Amnesty International recently released a 26 page report revealing that ISIS is committing ethnic cleansing against religious minorities in northern Iraq, expelling around 830,000 Christians, Shiite Muslims, Yazidis and Mandeans from their homes.

"The massacres and abductions being carried out by the Islamic State provide harrowing new evidence that a wave of ethnic cleansing against minorities is sweeping across northern Iraq," Amnesty investigator Donatella Rovera. the rest

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ISIS Teaches Children How to Behead in Training Camps
This summer, in his hometown of Raqqa, 13-year-old Mohammad was forced to attend a children's training camp established by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

When his father opposed his son's conscription, ISIS fighters threatened to kill him. Mohammad left for camp, which his father describes as a form of “brainwashing the children.”

 

After his return, his mother says she was surprised to find in his bag a blond, blue-eyed doll – along with a large knife given to her son by his ISIS supervisors. When she confronted Mohammad, he told her that the camp manager had distributed the dolls and asked that the children decapitate them using the knife, and that they were asked to cover the dolls' faces when they performed the decapitation.

 

It was his homework: practice beheading a toy likeness of a blond, white Westerner...