A reporter, citing the atrocities and murders in Iraq and Syria, asked Earnest, “Why won’t the Obama administration call this genocide, Christian genocide?”
Earnest responded that the term genocide has “legal ramifications. There are lawyers considering whether or not that term can be properly applied in this scenario,” Earnest said.
“What is clear and what is undeniable and what the ‘president’ has now said twice in the last 24 hours is that we know that there are religious minorities in Iraq and in Syria, including Christians, that are being targeted by ISIL terrorists because of their religion, and that attack on religious minorities is an attack on all people of faith and it is important for all of us to stand up and speak out about it.”
On Wednesday, Obama denounced attacks on people of faith while speaking at the Islamic Society of Baltimore and repeated the sentiment Thursday morning at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Many have insisted the large-scale murder of Christians by the Islamic State is clearly genocide.
The reluctance by the Obama administration is most likely based on obligations under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Travis Weber, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Family Research Council, said.
“If they don’t think there is enough evidence of genocide against Christians and Yazidis, I’m not sure what they’re waiting for,” Weber told TheBlaze. “This is based on a political fear. There is moral and legal weight behind calling it genocide. Under the treaty, parties must prevent and punish genocide. This is the reason for the Clinton administration’s reluctance to act in Rwanda.”
Citing the treaty, Weber said the Islamic State’s slaughter and torture of Christians meet the treaty’s criteria for genocide, which include any of the following:
● Killing members of the group
● Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
● Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
● Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
● Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
At the White House press briefing, the reporter followed, “The distinction of genocide provides people persecuted with the ability to come to the United States seeking refuge. When will this happen?”
Earnest said the terminology doesn’t change the administration’s serious response in combatting the Islamic State. “This is an open question and one that continues to be considered by administration lawyers,” Earnest said. “I can tell you that the ‘president’ was quite blunt in talking about the responsibility that all people of faith have in standing up for individuals who are targeted for their faith, particularly religious minorities and particularly the people who are marginalized because of their minority status based on the religion they practice.”
Earnest noted that the Islamic State has also targeted Yazidis and Shia Muslims. “This administration has worked hard to try to protect religious minorities who are being victimized by ISIL. There is no doubt that Christians are among those who have been and are being targeted,” Earnest said. “As it relates to the specific use of this word — the decision to apply this term to this situation is an important one, it has significant consequences and it matters for a whole variety of reasons both legal and moral. But it doesn’t change our response. The fact is that this administration has been aggressive even though that term has not been applied in trying to protect religious minorities who are victims or potential victims of violence.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/02/04/white-house-explains-why-obama-wont-call-islamic-states-murder-of-christians-genocide/
Turkey does supply ISIS Putin, said it himself in front of the UN council ya,they trading oil that they steal from Syria over to the occult mafi Jews ya for about 20 qiud per barrel Putin son”s own the cargo ships that delivery the oil, looking at 1000′s of trucks per day as to why Putin bomb the trucks The occult mafi Jew Yetin went to see Putin about this, they running the oil through Turkey, now you got kissinger going to see Putin because kissinger arranged the oil deal for the middle east, oil sitting at 38 per barrel Yetin selling to the states at 70quid per barrel, so the states can drop bombs in the middle of nowhere The UN pays for those bombs and there worth more than the oil, the ISIS are making millions per day doing this arrangement. The missile contracts the united states corporation is worth billion trillions. As why the US has not hit any iSIS targets or they hit mock up staged crap on the ground so they can film it for the media that Yetin the occult jews own. Every one has there hand in the cookie jar over there big scam when your dealing with national governments and world leaders.
This why you got refugees that are ISIS in Europe staging false flags so they can reconnect oil chain back to Turkey these country leaders are being blackmailed by the United Stated after that spying incident that the states was doing, to make them world leaders play along this why they want that assenge fellow so bad cause he knows what was done and why!
This why Putin step up to the world plate after what assenge told them, German minster is being blackmailed by the US to agree for the influx of ISIS to stage false flag attacks so the US and other UN members can go into Syria to re-establish the black market trade deal, you can see whats going on by who is visiting Putin and why the West is bad mouthing Putin and the bombing of ISIS.
This apart of the New World Order and they got caught as to why Putin dropped the NWO.
This is a news story that has some major world players involved yet the western occult Jew owned media does not report on any of this. This is bigger than watergate!!!!
Nothing more than common crooks at play!!