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the 16-minute video released on October 23, 2015 by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In it a masked terrorist, armed with a rifle and speaking fluent Hebrew, threatened to slaughter Israelis and Jews everywhere. He promised his viewers that soon there won’t be a single Jew left in Jerusalem or in the whole country. Tens of thousands of these Islamic terrorists would soon be on the way to slaughter Jews and throw them into the garbage.
Israel’s humane behavior does not resemble garbage, as Palestinian leaders obviously know. On October 20, a few days before the video, the brother-in-law of President Abbas underwent a successful life-saving heart surgery at a private hospital, Assuta Medical Center, in Tel Aviv. Israel has similarly helped other patients. One is the wife of Abbas who in 2014 was also treated at Assuta in a private room with security guards to maintain her privacy. Another was the sister of a senior Hamas leader, Moussa Abu Marzouk, who was treated for advanced cancer. Marzouk was listed as a specially designated terrorist by the U.S. Treasury Department. This was in addition to the Israeli treatment of relatives of other Hamas figures. Among them were the daughter, mother-in-law, and granddaughter of Ismail Haniyeh, another senior Hamas leader.
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The Muslim countries in the Middle East are characterized by religious groups subject to religious intolerance and hostility and the accompanying political, economic, and ethnic suffering.
Israel, by its Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, establishes freedom of religion, and the legal protection for religious freedom is enforced. The Israeli Supreme Court has upheld that freedom, including freedom of conscience, faith, religion, and worship, regardless of the religion of an individual. Though Israel is described as a “Jewish and democratic state,” freedom of religion and conscience and legal political equality exist regardless of religious affiliation.
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After [Saddam Hussein] fell in 2003, the Shia Muslim majority, under PM Nouri al-Maliki, acted against the Sunnis, preventing peaceful protests, mistreating Sunni citizens and prisoners, and limiting the number of Sunnis in government and security positions. A major result of this was the entrance of ISIS, which now controls considerable parts of northern and central Iraq.
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All religious communities who do not accept that ideology [ISIS] have been subjected to extraordinary abuses, including expulsion from their historic homelands, forced conversions, rape, enslavement of women and children, torture, beheadings, and massacres.
After it captured Mosul in June 2014, ISIS issued an ultimatum that all Christians, whose community dates back 1,700 years, must convert to Islam, leave Mosul, pay a tax, or be killed.
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The once vibrant Jewish community in Egypt has now disappeared, but nevertheless, anti-Semitic publications and cartoons still appear.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/murderous_religious_intolerance_in_the_middle_east.html
October 25, 2015
Murderous Religious Intolerance in the Middle East
By Michael Curtis
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