a lesson from ancient pages
written in Biblical history
a lesson writ in persecution...
listen the lesson is
simple first one minority
is persecuted then
another another another
like falling dominoes
evil has time rewards...
divine punishments waiting! ! !
like a punishment from God
written comes back on persecutors
like a karma God sentences
in God's time punished! ! !
contemporary violence
violent hate crimes
against humanity
once rarely reported
if victims in Arab world
believe in Christianity?
impossible in mass media modern world
unless western owners governments employ atheist
Christian hating condemnation agendas...
occasionally horror terrifying stories images leak through
Christianity in Mosul is dead
a Christian genocide is in our midst
a Christian holocaust is in our midst...
medieval convert or die terror agendas
Iraq embraces barbaric systemic gender sentencing
hate festering demonic abuse sentencing...
Christian children are being beheaded
Christian mothers are being raped killed
Christian fathers are being shamed death hung...
you may ask why ISIS did not kill Jews
in Mosul at this time a simple answer
the ancient Jewish population was gone
intolerant Iraq had forced out Iraqi Jews
nationwide in 1950-51 Jews were gone...
Christians would not be so lucky
long before ISIS back in 2008
Assyrian Christians 12,000 fled
Mosul why another simple answer
a wave of murders threats targeted...
Assyrian Christians dozens murdered
murdered unless they converted to Islam
Assyrian Christians their homes destroyed
sparked a Christian population rapid exodus
fled to Syria Turkey; some stayed sheltered...
in churches sheltered in monasteries
who was responsible who knows
evil hate wears twisted so many faces
Sunni fundamentalists Kurdish groups
were blamed as being behind this exodus...
politically who is blamed who is guilty
is not always the same actual killer hands
few or many wear twisted soul hate filled faces...
what was the spark cause of this 2008
sudden outbreak of violence murders persecutions
a grave crime Assyrian Christians asked for civil rights...
the reason the provincial elections
of January 2009 Assyrian Christian
demands for broader representation
in provincial councils? who knows?
Did Allah ever punish these crimes?
Who knows? Both Sunni and Kurds
will suffer when ISIS attacks Mosul
on 4 June 2014 six days of fighting
on 10 June then Islamic State took
the city in Northern Iraq offensive...
by August Mosul's ISIL administration
is dysfunctional frequent power cuts
tainted water supply with collapsed
infrastructure and failing health care
like a punishment curse from Allah?
June 10 2014 it is not 12,000
Assyrian Christians fleeing Mosul
within two days half a million
people escaped by car on foot
history repeating Mosul residents...
were de facto prisoners forbidden
from leaving Mosul the city unless
a significant collateral of family
members personal wealth property
was left as bail the departure tax...
was significant for a three-day pass
a higher fee surrender your home
pay the fee leave for good exiled...
a three-day pass failed return within
three days or assets seized family killed...
in hate crimes in cruelty ISIS
is sowing to reap future seeds
seeds its own future damnation
life in Mosul for 1.5 million
residents no tap water 3 years...
no heating in winter
lights three hours a day
list of hardships grows endless...
there is an old saying
we can best judge a country
by how it treats the least the lowest
of its citizens the poor sick socially discarded
Mahatma Gandhi knew this truth advocated
the rights of the least the poor women untouchables
failing to grant equality to all respect to all
violates a law all are equal in the eyes of God
the consequences as the least poor powerless
were treated so might wealth privilege be time
judgement treated wealth special rights immunity
can be stripped away instant in chaos societies
will wealth recognize the faces of the poor powerless
who had hearts of gold glorious love compassion kindness
when wearing crowns of glory rejoicing in destiny paradise
Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
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