{"id":21881,"date":"2014-08-07T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21881"},"modified":"2014-08-07T12:23:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:23:02","slug":"an-islamic-state-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-islamic-state-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"An Islamic State in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-28686998\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Up to a quarter of Iraq&#8217;s Christians are reported to be fleeing after Islamic militants seized the minority&#8217;s biggest town.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic State (IS) group captured Qaraqosh in Nineveh province overnight after the withdrawal of Kurdish forces.<\/p>\n<p>IS controls parts of Iraq and Syria and says it has created an Islamic state.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the UN says some of the Yazidi community, another religious minority in the area targeted by IS, have been rescued.<\/p>\n<p>About 50,000 Yazidis are thought to have been trapped in the mountains after fleeing the town of Sinjar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ISIS says it has created an \u201cIslamic State\u201d. The result is tens of thousands of Christians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/iraqi-yazidis-stranded-on-isolated-mountaintop-begin-to-die-of-thirst\/2014\/08\/05\/57cca985-3396-41bd-8163-7a52e5e72064_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">dying of thirst<\/a>, a Christian family of eight <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/they.would.not.convert.and.it.cost.them.their.life.family.of.eight.iraqi.christians.shot.in.the.face\/39360.htm\" target=\"_blank\">shot in the face<\/a> because they would not convert, and Christians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2014\/07\/22\/last-christians-in-iraq\/\" target=\"_blank\">beheaded, mutilated, raped, stoned and crucified<\/a> \u2013 just for being Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Is this what an \u201cIslamic State\u201d is supposed to look like? If not, I expect we\u2019ll soon be seeing intervention from the <em>real<\/em> Islamic States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: Up to a quarter of Iraq&#8217;s Christians are reported to be fleeing after Islamic militants seized the minority&#8217;s biggest town. The Islamic State (IS) group captured Qaraqosh in Nineveh province overnight after the withdrawal of Kurdish forces. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-islamic-state-in-iraq\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2177,1864,2178],"class_list":["post-21881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}