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(17,196 posts) Mon Mar 14, 2016, 09:51 PM Mar 2016

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93 to 0: U.S. House Unanimously Declares ISIL Is Committing Genocide Against Christians
3/14/2016, 9:11:47 PM · by Nachum · 31 replies
cns news ^ | 3/14/16 | Terence P. Jeffrey
(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted 393 to 0 tonight in favor of a resolution declaring that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is committing “genocide” against Christians, Yezidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East. The vote on the resolution, which was sponsored by Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R.-Neb.) and co-sponsored 203 other members, brought together as broad a coalition as possible in the House. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (the chairman of the Democratic National Committee) joined with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R.-Texas) in...