Donovan demands Obama declare ISIS slaughter genocide
The torture, rapes, beheadings and other atrocities committed by ISIS against Christians in the Middle East are genocide and should labeled as such by the U.S. government, according to U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan, who spoke out on the growing controversy on what to call the destructive actions of the terror group.
Standing with Councilmember Joseph Borelli (R-Staten Island) and local Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders outside a Coptic Christian church on Staten Island on March 10, Donovan said the Obama administration should declare what is happening in the Middle East to be genocide.
“Last year, the world watched a beach turn red as executioners sawed off the heads of 21 Coptic Christians on the shores of the Mediterranean. Last week, terrorists executed nuns caring for the elderly and frail. And in the months between, ISIS has buried hundreds or thousands of slaughtered Yazidis in mass graves. Political correctness cannot stand in the way of our moral obligation to call this what it is: genocide,” Donovan (R-C-Southwest Brooklyn-Staten Island) said in a statement.