James Woods: 'Obama is More Likely to Walk on Water Than He is to Acknowledge the Genocide Against Christians'
Actor James Woods is skeptical that President Obama will call the persecution of Christians in the Middle East genocide.
In a tweet posted on March 10, Woods wrote the following: "#Obama is more likely to walk on water than he is to acknowledge the genocide against Christians."
The State Department and White House have not labeled atrocities against Christians in the Middle East genocide, but are facing a congressionally mandated March 17 deadline to make a decision.
Woods also linked [1]to a Fox News story, which detailed the release of a new report [2]by Middle Eastern Christian leaders, human rights advocates from the Knights of Columbus, and the group In Defense of Christians (IDC).
From the executive summary of the report:
ISIS is committing genocide — the “crime of crimes” — against Christians and other religious groups in Syria, Iraq and Libya. It is time for the United States to join the rest of the world by naming it and by taking action against it as required by law. ISIS’ activities are well known.
Killings, rapes, torture, kidnappings, bombings and the destruction of religious property and monuments are, in some instances, a matter of public record. The European Parliament, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and the Iraqi and Kurdish governments have labeled ISIS’ actions genocide. Political leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights — have done likewise.
The Fox story described the scene when Fr. Douglas Bazi, a Catholic priest in Baghdad who was tortured by ISIS and now lives in a refugee camp, addressed the audience at the National Press Club, where the report was released:
Holding a bloody shirt he carries with him to remember the Islamic State's crimes against Iraqi Christians, Douglas Bazi described for a Washington audience Thursday how he's suffered at ISIS' hands: He was kidnapped, had his teeth bashed in with a hammer and watched as his church was bombed.
“There is not ‘life’ in Iraq,” Bazi said, noting his congregation has been targeted so often it is called the “church of the martyrs, or the church of the blood.”
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