BEIRUT: Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako has unleashed a vehement attack on the West, accusing the United States of supporting ISIS.
“America is behind ISIS, which is the crime of the century, and they want to brazenly displace Christians from their homes and churches,” Sako told the local newspaper Ad-Diyar, saying the reason was that the West’s labor force needed immigrants.
“The West watched us and it seemed they have ignored our suffering,” he complained. “But we will not leave our land, whatever the sacrifices.”
Sako also criticized Muslim countries for lack of support.
“Our Muslim neighbors did not help us,” he said as he urged Muslim preachers to issue a religious ruling against the killing of innocent people.
“Issuing a fatwa preventing Muslims from killing fellow Muslims is not enough,” Sako said.
He also slammed Wednesday’s meeting that gathered Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai with representatives of the five permanent members at the U.N. Security Council.
“They were not helpful. We don’t want statements,” he said of the meeting, which he also attended, in Bkirki, the seat of the Maronite Church.
“America is responsible for what happened to the Christians in the East. And the patriarchs did not beg Arabs nor others to instill [peoples’] rights,” Sako said.
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