Ethnic cleansing and genocide in Iraq

Yezidi children killed by ISIS in Syria

Razib Khan writes:

The delusion of a multi-ethnic and multi-religious Iraq and Syria has collapsed.

There is no point in pretending that we are neutral in the clash between antinomian barbarians and ethno-religious autocrats. The latter are imperfect, but they have a vision of life which we recognize as life.** We must stand in some way with imperfect humans when they are battling against organic automata, motivating by an ideology which bears false witness to any traditional social order. People can disagree on the details, but there is a moderate position between total detachment and taking upon the burdens of the world upon one’s shoulders.

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