Iraq HoaxesThe following is a HOAX.
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST
Christians in Northern Iraq are calling for urgent prayer backing as they’re in great danger – serious threat of beheading of all Christians in that area in a few hours. Please forward this request to your praying friends on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Christ” Thank you and God bless you.
And I am fairly sure that this one is a hoax too
Urgent Prayer Request For Christians Dying in Northern Iraq
Sean Malone who leads Crisis Relief International (CRI), sent the following message Friday night [29/8/14]:
“We lost the city of Queragosh (Qaraqosh). It fell to ISIS and they are beheading children systematically. This is the city we have been smuggling food too. ISIS has pushed back Peshmerga (Kurdish forces) and is within 10 minutes of where our CRI team is working. Thousands more fled into the city of Erbil last night. The UN evacuated it’s staff in Erbil. Our team is unmoved and will stay. Prayer cover needed!”
Crisis Relief International does not exist, it is called Crisis Response International.
You may ask “Why do you pursue these hoaxes so fervently. There is no doubt that there is a humanitarian crisis in Northern Iraq. What does it matter if the details are not quite right, God knows”
Well my answer is that truth is not served by falsehood, however often repeated. The objective of the people who set these hoaxes running is to undermine the truth of the situation. They will be rejoicing if the message reaches the mainstream media before being discovered. And all these little things undermine the truth. The thought planted is that if this one is a hoax, then perhaps the whole story is untrue.
So, please do some basic checks before posting on—Google is your friend (other search engines are also good). These organisations do not send out messages like this by text message.
And do look at the web sites of the organisiations working there (including the ones above) and pray around what is true.
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This email alarmed and distressed many who received it. The photograph of the beheaded girl came from a 2012 photograph taken in Syria -so dishonest to attach it to an email about the current crisis in Iraq. Whilst there are plausible reports about Christians being attacked and driven out there are no confirmed reports as far as I know about beheading children.
We must also remember the slaughter of Moslem and Christian children in Gaza,by Jewish military at the command of Israel. 500 Gazan children were killed – many buried alive this year.Thousands of Moslem children are severely disabled,blinded, disfigured, burned,and amputated as a result of the Israeli Jewish attack. Hundreds of Palestinian Moslem and Christian children are held illegally and tortured in Israeli jails. The international community have done nothing to stop this because they are intimidated by the Zionist Lobby around the world which supports Israel. They also sell arms to Israel, trade with Israel so the realationship is financially lucrative and they turn a blind eye to the horrors inflicted on Moslem children. We must defend ALL children whatsoever their faith or nationality.
Whether this e-mail is a hoax or not is not the point. ISIS is evil and has been and continues to target Christians and non muslims as well as Shias.It is our duty to continue to pray for these people.
I sense the website indicated is antisemitic.
If you are referring to the websites I linked then they are Christian.
I am not aware of any pictures attached to the emails I quoted, they were not there when I saw them.
Personally I believe the easy access to media 24/7 and their subsequent need to fill every second of the day with some ‘breaking news’ is causing anyone and everyone to want their 15 minutes of fame and is making celebrities out of what (in my opinion) are essentially nobodies. Some might say false idols. I wonder if there wasn’t such widespread media coverage would there be so much terrible stuff done in the world just to get attention?
Rick, comments are closed on the riddle of the pyramid thread and I don’t want to hi-jack this thread so could you drop me an email please so I can ask you a couple of questions please. Thanks, Gem.
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Whatever the real truth about Querygosh the fact remains that people are being persecuted because of their faith or attachment to a particular society group. Our prayer must remain in the words of the Irish Philopher Burke when he implied ‘… all that is needed for evil to succeed is for good people do nothing…’ Our prayer in the steps of those words must be that those who are in a position to eradicate the evil transgressions of ISIS are equiped to do just that
May God have mercy on us all. Amen
I believe the email is false, however it is apparently and abhorently true that Christians, including women and children are being killed by ISIS. And yes, some of those innocent people are being beheaded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9JuMZ8spFQ#t=17