NEW YORK – Atrocities by Syrian jihadist rebels have reached sensational
new levels, according to a revered nun working with persecuted
Christians and an explosive new video report.
Sister Hatune Dogan told WND in a Skype interview that members of the
Syrian opposition are draining the blood of Christians they behead and
selling vials to Islamic radicals for $100,000 a piece.
The Syrian Orthodox nun explained that the blood is used in a ritual
washing of hands in the belief the act atones for sins and provides
privileged access to heaven.
The Christians, she said, are beheaded in ceremonies in which they
are forced to kneel, with their hands and feet bound, as the Muslim
radicals read a death sentence imposed because the victim refuses to
renounce Christianity and embrace Islam.
She detailed how the head of the victim is brutally severed with
knives. The blood spurting from their necks is captured in basins and
then bottled.
“The Muslims sever the necks and collect the blood in vessels to sell
the blood. The Muslims believe that if they kill a Christian and wash
their hands in the blood of the Christian, they will go to heaven,” she
explained.
She said the sale of the Christian blood “is a big business.”
“With this money, the Muslim terrorists can buy more weapons,” she explained.
Walid Shoebat, a native Arabic-speaking Christian who was a member of the PLO, has called Hatune a Mother Teresa figure in an article that featured her presenting the results of an independent
investigation of Christians in Syria under the rule of Muslim
fundamentalists.
A video posted on YouTube shows Hatune presenting the results of the
investigation in which she discusses how women held captive by Muslims
for ransom have been raped and mutilated. She also presents evidence for
her claim Muslims are beheading Christians and selling their blood.
“Hatune’s willingness to help the persecuted is so immense that it surpasses what anyone is doing today in the Middle East,” Shoebat has written on his blog.
“Her righteous deeds, of course, receive the vociferous wrath of the jihadists,” Shoebat said.
The nun says she gets “18 death threats in seven languages.”
“But Sister Hatune is no pacifist,” Shoebat writes. “As she ardently
believes in denying one’s self, helping the oppressed and turning the
other cheek, like a true warrior, she as well zealously believes in
taking up a whip and driving out the wicked.”
Independently, Shoebat has published a video of Sunni Muslims playing soccer with the heads of the people they murdered.
WND Middle East correspondent Michael Maloof, a former senior
security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense, said
the “vociferous wrath” from jihadists that Hatune is receiving because
of her vigorous effort to protect Christians has made her a prime target
of al-Qaida and its affiliate, the Jabhat al-Nusra.
“Al-Nusra, which wants to establish caliphates in Syria and
throughout the Middle East, has amply demonstrated that it will kill any
‘infidel,’ even Muslims, who do not subscribe to a strict form of
Shariah,” Maloof said. “This places all Christians and other minorities
in peril which, in turn, puts Sister Hatune and her companions in
al-Nusra’s crosshairs.”
Hatune explained to WND that she was born into a Christian family in
Zaz, a village in Turabdeen, Northern Mesopotamia in Turkey, at a time
when Christians were being persecuted by both the Turkish and Kurdish
Muslims.
According to a biography, her family migrated from Turkey to Germany in 1985 to escape persecution.
She completed her education in Germany. In 1988, she joined the
Morephrem Monastery in Losser, Holland, where she entered the sisterhood
under the leadership of the Mother Superior Seyde Atto.
In Germany, she completed her degree in practical theology at the
Theological Seminar in Mienz, Germany, in 1996. Later, she worked as a
psychotherapist in Kathekese Psychotherapy Institute in Augustburg,
Germany.
She has visited 38 countries and worked in the Ministry of Charitableand Social Service in Turkey, Africa, India and the Middle East.
She is a member of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church under the Holy See of Antioch.
Hatune is the founder of the Sister Hatune Foundation, registered in the United States in New York. The foundation has a Facebook page. Her various country-specific Internet websites are frequently hacked and often inoperable.
Shoebat has begun accepting contributions through a foundation he created for Hatune, RescueChristians.org
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Who are these Christians that are willingly led like sheep to the slaughter?
ReplyDeleteThey are the New Martyrs who are choosing death rather than denying Christ.
Jesus said in Matthew 10:32-33:
“Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven."
These men, women and children are included in the crowd of Revelation 20:4 :
"Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also, I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years."
May the Good Lord give them Peace in the Heavenly Places and avenge their death in due time.