Christians volunteers, who have joined the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, take part in a training session by coalition forces in a training camp in Duhok province, Iraq on March 16, 2016.dd caption |
If Jesus Christ
were living in today's world where terrorism is a real threat, would he allow
the killing of Islamic
State (ISIS) militants? The answer would be yes as far as this Christian
militia fighter is concerned.
In a recent interview
with BBC News, Rayan al-Kildani, the head of the 100,000-member Christian
militia group known as the "Babylon Brigade," said while Jesus Christ
taught about mercy and compassion, wielding the sword to end the lives of these
jihadists would have been acceptable to Him given the various atrocities they
have committed. Kildani said he has personally killed several members of this
terror group.
He made it clear that
his group's primary mission is to prevent the ISIS from advancing further and
taking more territories in Iraq.
"What Islamic
State is doing to the Christians is terrible. They are the devil," Kildani
said, as quoted by The Gospel Herald.
"I know the
Bible says that if you get hit on one cheek you should offer the other. But we
have really good defence forces now. No one is going to do anything bad to the
Christians. Some Christians had their homes taken over. I have personally been
to those houses to tell the new people living there to get out. Christian
suffering is over," he added.
When asked about how
he would reconcile his militia group's actions to the Fifth Commandment,
"Thou shall not kill," Kildani answered: "We have to fight. We
have to defend ourselves...Jesus himself told us that if you don't have a sword
you should go out and buy one."
The militia leader
even used this Bible quote from Luke 22:36 to justify his group's actions:
"If you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a
sword, sell your cloak and buy one."
Some theologians
interviewed by BBC, however, said that this verse should not be taken
literally.
Thousands of
Christians have already suffered in the hands of the ISIS since 2014. Members
of the terror group have been torturing, raping and killing Christians and
taking over their homes in the Middle East.
Syrian Orthodox Church
leader Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II revealed that at least 230 citizens,
including scores of Christians, were recently kidnapped by the ISIS from the
town of Qaryatain in central Syria.
Aphrem reported that
some Christians were killed while attempting to escape, while some were killed
for breaking the terms of their "dhimmi contracts," which require
them to submit to the rule of Islam.
Source:Christiantoday
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