Why Obama started bombing to protect Yazidi's but did nothing for Syrian Sunni's?

[Asian.Century]

Finally, someone who is not shy in showing there ignorance.

Ignorance which you are really short of, please acquire knowledge of Iraq's islamic history and stop believes devil worshipper Obama who supports & protects them through Ameicans.

Do you know this Yazidi, the devil worshippers Book : Yazidi Black Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Iraq's Yazidis: Who are they – and why are these 'devil worshippers' being persecuted by Isis? - Middle East - World - The Independent

Why are they called devil worshippers?

Yazidis have been branded “devil worshippers” by Muslims for centuries because of a similarity in the name of a spirit they worship, and the Arabic word for “devil”.

In truth, the ancient Yazidi religion has elements of both Christianity and Islam at its roots, while it is also linked to one of the world’s oldest monotheistic – the belief in one god – religions, called Zoroastrianism.

The Yazidis believe in one god, though they worship seven other “angels” or “spirits”, the most important of which is Malak Taus, or Tausi Melek, whom Yazidis worship five times a day.

This figure is said to be the Yazidi god’s favourite, and is supposed to act as a mediator between god and man. The figure’s name is also known in Arabic as “Shaytan,” meaning devil, supposedly because of the closeness of the pronunciation of Malak Taus’ name in Arabic.

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

Dont be naive. US attacked Saddam in pretense of point 1. To earn the eligibility, it talked bout the Bio Weapons and its usage a decade ago by Saddam and hence in name of War against Terror, its declared war against Saddam as he refused to allow Americans its air and space.

George H. W. Bush had a U.N. resolution behind him to start the first Gulf War,
there was a UNSC resolution 687 to describe the ceasefire terms.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This was used to legitimize the Second Gulf War.

The real cause of the Second Gulf War was Russia and the political left.

Russia was vetoing anything threatening their business with Saddam.

The European political left, in its eagerness to interfere with anything smelling American policy,
was pushing George W Bush to abandon the sanctions vs Iraq, without any conditions,
and the US expected this would result in future attempts by Saddam to invade neighbors.
W then used resolution 687, to take out Saddam.

 

[kalu_miah]

All these caused by Assad regime?Groups like ISIS,Al-Qaida,FSA has nothing to do with these?I don't think so,this is war,and in any war,we will find civilian loss,and all those rebels(the extremists or so-called secular FSA) are no-less cruel and barbaric than Syrian regime

Surely you did not forget how this thing started rolling. There was no ISIS, AQ or FSA in the beginning, it was only Assad and his Sabiha killing unarmed protesters. Obama and others in the Arab world egged them on, giving them full encouragement to turn it into a "Syrian spring", the rest is history. So all those you mentioned were created as a reaction to Assad's brutal crackdown.

Obama had all the cards to bring this into conclusion and make it a much shorter war, but true to his signature, the idiot backed out when it mattered, resulting in the quagmire we have today in Syria and now it has metastasized and spread into Iraq.

 

[sahaliyan]

Surely you did not forget how this thing started rolling. There was no ISIS, AQ or FSA in the beginning, it was only Assad and his Sabiha killing unarmed protesters. Obama and others in the Arab world egged them on, giving them full encouragement to turn it into a "Syrian spring", the rest is history. So all those you mentioned were created as a reaction to Assad's brutal crackdown.

Obama had all the cards to bring this into conclusion and make it a much shorter war, but true to his signature, the idiot backed out when it mattered, resulting in the quagmire we have today in Syria and now it has metastasized and spread into Iraq.

Assad is a brutal dictator,no one doubt that,but I'm afraid without a system to share power between different religious sects like in Lebanon,the things will be worse.The minorities like Alawis,the Druzes and Christians' rights should be protected.And you can see,in Iraq,Maliki government ignore the rights of sunnis,that's one of reasons ISIS can get some support from sunni population,but the Shias are majority,maliki was elected by people,he is not a dictator.You can see,without a share power system,Iraqis can't get peace.In Syria,it's the same

 

[livingdead]

A very valid question and I am not having any answer for it even though I searched a lot about it ...Even UK sent them the provisions within 24 hours ...

uk almost bombed syria ... they even had plan to arm groups like ISIS ..
thank god it was severly opposed by all parties here.

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

Did the US have any of the above 3 reasons to invade and occupy Saddam ruled Iraq?

We had a Coalition of the Willing, Bush & Blair.

So Kurdistan has came into existence as an Internationally accepted State.

More of a semi-Bastard Child. You sometimes have to side with the lesser of two-evils. Putting your weight with a militia that is fighting terrorists or an Army in full Retreat.

Please tell me more about how the US obeys International Law.

America makes the laws.

If it had been illegal, then the US would have been sanctioned by a UNSC resolution .

, hard for the UNSC to slap sanctions on a country that is one of the 5 veto members.

 

[XenoEnsi-14]

So because of similarities of the name makes them "Devil Worshipers"? Was the term Allah used by pagan meccans? By your way of thinking Yezidis are "devil worshipers" just as much Muslims are "Pagans". But that's not true is it? Yezidis do not worship sin and Muslim do not worship a pagan god.



When I said Kurd I was referring to the KRG, technically Yezidis are Kurdish but a majority of them don't refer to themselves as Kurdish.

I already answered your post above, why did you have to repost? @AsianUnion

Ignorance which you are really short of, please acquire knowledge of Iraq's islamic history and stop believes devil worshipper Obama who supports & protects them through Ameicans.

Do you know this Yazidi, the devil worshippers Book : Yazidi Black Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Iraq's Yazidis: Who are they – and why are these 'devil worshippers' being persecuted by Isis? - Middle East - World - The Independent

Why are they called devil worshippers?

Yazidis have been branded “devil worshippers” by Muslims for centuries because of a similarity in the name of a spirit they worship, and the Arabic word for “devil”.

In truth, the ancient Yazidi religion has elements of both Christianity and Islam at its roots, while it is also linked to one of the world’s oldest monotheistic – the belief in one god – religions, called Zoroastrianism.

The Yazidis believe in one god, though they worship seven other “angels” or “spirits”, the most important of which is Malak Taus, or Tausi Melek, whom Yazidis worship five times a day.

This figure is said to be the Yazidi god’s favourite, and is supposed to act as a mediator between god and man. The figure’s name is also known in Arabic as “Shaytan,” meaning devil, supposedly because of the closeness of the pronunciation of Malak Taus’ name in Arabic.

 

[Otocal]

Syria is fighting terrorism.
Terrorists were terrorising Yazidis.

The US just killed some terrorists.
Whats the dilemma about?

 

[Asian.Century]

I already answered your post above, why did you have to repost? @AsianUnion

Well my post was removed.

As said before, Yazidi's follow an Evil black book they made themselves, they follow spirits, for that they were termed devil worshippers. Kurdish are Muslims...and Sunni Muslims like the great Salahuddin Ayubi types.

Further, I will give you more clarity on why Yazidis are Devils:

The Yazidi believe in God as creator of the world, which he has placed under the care of seven "holy beings" or angels, the "chief" (archangel) of whom is Melek Taus, the "Peacock Angel."
The Peacock Angel, as world-ruler, causes both good and bad to befall individuals, and this ambivalent character is reflected in myths of his own temporary fall from God's favor, before his remorseful tears extinguished the fires of his hellish prison and he reconciled with God. This myth builds on Sufi mystical reflections on the angel Iblis, who proudly refused to violate monotheism by worshipping Adam and Eve at God's express command. Because of this connection to the Sufi Iblis tradition, some followers of other monotheistic religions of the region equate the Peacock Angel with their own unredeemed evil spirit Satan / Devil, which has incited centuries of persecution of the Yazidi as "devil worshippers."

 

[kobenhaven]

Cuz Kurds support and have relations with Israel while Sunni Syrians don't, simple as that.

Why KSA is counted in one of the sincere kid of USA and Israel ? When it comes to you then everything is fine because it is about foreign policy but when it comes to some other country then you see everything with your religious lenses.

 

[Echo_419]

More than 100,000 Syrian Sunni's were killed by Assad regime, but Obama did nothing. Didn't they deserve humanitarian protection from Assad's forces when the rebellion did not even start.

But when Yazidi's are victims suddenly Obama springs into action. Is it the Kurdistan and nearby oil fields being threatened? Or is it because they are non-Muslim and hence get greater sympathy and public support of the US and hence are a safer bet for Obama to save, keeping in mind that Obama is already accused of being a Muslim by right wing nuts.

Please don't get me wrong. I despise these IS terrorists, and I support bombing them out of existence. And I support 100% saving these defense less Yazidi's.

But I am just puzzled by Obama's actions, why the double standard. So fellow forumers, please present your views, if you may.

Simple,while the sunnis & shias have some support,the Yazadis have absolutely no support

 

[kalu_miah]

Assad is a brutal dictator,no one doubt that,but I'm afraid without a system to share power between different religious sects like in Lebanon,the things will be worse.The minorities like Alawis,the Druzes and Christians' rights should be protected.And you can see,in Iraq,Maliki government ignore the rights of sunnis,that's one of reasons ISIS can get some support from sunni population,but the Shias are majority,maliki was elected by people,he is not a dictator.You can see,without a share power system,Iraqis can't get peace.In Syria,it's the same

Now you are coming to the heart of the matter. Sharing of power is key to stability, but these regions have no history of that. If you go back a little in history, you will find both Syria and Iraq were Ottoman provinces. My impression is that Ottomans were relatively moderate Sunni's, and they ruled over not just Arab Shia's but Arab Christians, Armenian Christians and East European Christians as well in the Balkan region. Yet, the Sunni as a majority was a dominant force in Ottoman empire and other groups as minorities did not have the upper hand. All of this changed when Ottoman fell and the land was divided up by the British and French in a secret agreement called Sykes-Picot:
Sykes–Picot Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So all this problem we see today started from that point in time, when the Ottoman land was broken up into arbitrary pieces according to the whim and convenience of the British and the French. Things became relatively stable over time. But fast forward to Iran's revolution in 1979 and rise of the theocratic Mullah's in power and they started a Shia uprising, unity and power grab in all of middle-east, using Arab Shia's. That is another more recent root of the much of the problem you see today.

For things to stabilize, two things need to happen:
- Arab world needs to integrate more and create a sort of union throughout Arab League with full consent and cooperation from Iran
- in order for Iran to cooperate in above, Iran needs to move away from its sectarian policies of trying to divide and rule the Arab world, so that Shia's remain as dominant powers as Iranian proxies in some of these countries, which is anathema to the majority Arab Sunni population

Till that happens, the region will continue to be plagued by conflicts.

 

[Multani]

More than 100,000 Syrian Sunni's were killed by Assad regime, but Obama did nothing. Didn't they deserve humanitarian protection from Assad's forces when the rebellion did not even start.

But when Yazidi's are victims suddenly Obama springs into action. Is it the Kurdistan and nearby oil fields being threatened? Or is it because they are non-Muslim and hence get greater sympathy and public support of the US and hence are a safer bet for Obama to save, keeping in mind that Obama is already accused of being a Muslim by right wing nuts.

Please don't get me wrong. I despise these IS terrorists, and I support bombing them out of existence. And I support 100% saving these defense less Yazidi's.

But I am just puzzled by Obama's actions, why the double standard. So fellow forumers, please present your views, if you may.

This is proof of their bias, thank you for noting.

 

[he-man]

Bad ,Bad obama

 

[JUBA]

Why KSA is counted in one of the sincere kid of USA and Israel ? When it comes to you then everything is fine because it is about foreign policy but when it comes to some other country then you see everything with your religious lenses.

You don't make any sense kid