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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: 2Corrie on October 17, 2015, 10:27:34 AM

Title: IS in Sweden
Post by: 2Corrie on October 17, 2015, 10:27:34 AM

A bit closer to home than we are used to:

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/convert.or.die.the.caliphate.is.here.isis.message.to.assyrian.christians.in.sweden/67604.htm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3275866/Christians-living-Sweden-told-convert-die-chilling-messages-Gothenburg-hotbed-ISIS-recruitment.html

pray and prepare for persecution

Title: Re: IS in Sweden
Post by: Udayana on October 17, 2015, 10:50:11 AM

"pray and prepare for persecution"

How will that help? Isn't it an "over the top" reaction?

Everyone needs to understand that when you take in refugees you are also taking in aspects of the problems that caused them to flee. You need to plan and be prepared to deal with those.

Title: Re: IS in Sweden
Post by: Harrowby Hall on October 17, 2015, 11:34:10 AM

Quote from: 2Corrie on October 17, 2015, 10:27:34 AM

A bit closer to home than we are used to:

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/convert.or.die.the.caliphate.is.here.isis.message.to.assyrian.christians.in.sweden/67604.htm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3275866/Christians-living-Sweden-told-convert-die-chilling-messages-Gothenburg-hotbed-ISIS-recruitment.html

pray and prepare for persecution

So, according the the Daily Mail, Assyrians have been Christians since 1AD. Since, in 1AD, according to the New Testament, Jesus and his parents were having an enforced holiday in Egypt to escape the predations of Herod, the Assyrians must have known something no one else knew.

The Daily Mail as a newspaper of record .... ?

Be that as it may, the behaviour of IS does give concern.