O what tangled webs we weave when we use proxy fighters

See also Mideast Christians See Russia — not the US — as Defender of Their Faith; June 21, 2018, Christianity Today (H/T Joshua Landis re-Tweet:  "An interesting & disturbing take on the views of Eastern Christians & their sense of abandonment by the liberal West ... Many Eastern Christians insist that Russia is a better friend to them than America - but when it is time immigrate the choice is invariably the US, if they can." -  salamamoussa)

Pro-US Kurds against Iraqi and Syrian Christians

July 7, 2018

Voltaire Network

[Photograph of official notification from Kurdistan Region Government, Ministry of Interior, Erbil Governorate, Erbil Central District; form is dated January 22, 2018 PDF.  The rest of the form is in Arabic.]  

The regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan has established an Islamic tax on businesses owned by Christians.

This tax appeared at the end of June in Ankawa, a district of Erbil, a city where 80% of the inhabitants are Christian. This tax is a mutated form of the former “Djizîa”, the tax collected from Christians who did not want to join the army. Whilst the initiative of the municipal authorities had at first been denounced, the City of Semel has followed suite and also introduced this tax.

At the same time, the YPG Kurds (supported by the United States, Israel and France) have invaded and are occupying two Christian localities of Syria, Tel Jazira and Tel Baz, that lie on the banks of the river Khabour). During the last three years, the YPG has forced the replacement of teachers of Christian schools in Northern Syria. The children had been forced to abandon the Arab language and to follow a programme of study imposed by Kurdish teachers in the Kurdish language. [1].

Translation
Anoosha Boralessa

1) “The United States and Israël begin the colonisation of Northern Syria”, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 2 November 2015

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