Wednesday, July 06, 2016

Supreme Grand Knight recommends six actions, principles or solutions for the ISIS threat

It’s a dire situation, he said, “but their fate is not inevitable.” The United States can avert this crisis by acting according to six principles: 

1. Increase humanitarian aid and provide oversight to ensure it gets to those targeted for genocide. 
2. Support the long-term survival of indigenous religious and ethnic communities by supporting their right to remain in their country. 
3. Punish the perpetrators of genocide and crimes against humanity. 
4. Assist the victims of genocide in attaining refugee status. 
5. Make preparations to ensure that Christians and other minorities have equal rights in deciding their future as ISIS-controlled territory is liberated. 
6. Promote the establishment of internationally agreed upon standards of human rights and religious freedom as conditions for humanitarian and military assistance. Supreme Knight Anderson also reported that neither the U.S. government nor the United Nations have offered financial assistance to respond to the crisis of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and urban refugees.


The State Department also received a nearly 300-page report, submitted by the Knights, that detailed the brutality which Christians and other minorities have experienced at the hands of ISIS. The report was credited by officials as having been influential in the declaration of genocide made by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. House of Representatives in mid-March. After submitting the report, Supreme Knight Anderson was invited to testify in Congress before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission to suggest a path forward for the victims of genocide. For information on how you can help these persecuted Christians, visit ChristiansatRisk.org

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