Iraq’s Religious Minorities Are Being Slaughtered By The Islamic State

Iraq’s Religious Minorities Are Being Slaughtered And ISIS Just Captured The Last Town Giving Them Shelter -- Andrew Slater, Daily Beast

ISIS just captured the Iraqi town of Sinjar in the first major defeat of Kurdish forces. Religious groups that had taken refuge there are in imminent danger of being massacred.

In a major defeat for Kurdish forces the Iraqi town of Sinjar was captured Sunday by the group known as ISIS, now calling itself the Islamic State. This is the Kurds first major loss to ISIS and a catastrophe for the religious minorities who had taken refuge in the area and are now at imminent risk of being slaughtered.

Reports from the region describe an unfolding tragedy with young women being abducted, religious monuments destroyed, and the ISIS flag now hanging over government buildings.

Without Western champions and sympathizers, the non-Christian religious minorities of Nineveh province are being slowly exterminated, driven off, or forced into hiding.

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Update: UN warns of 'humanitarian tragedy' as militants seize town in northern Iraq -- UN News Centre

My Comment: And the world says nothing.