World Ignores Christian Exodus from Islamic World
by Raymond Ibrahim
• August 6, 2014 at 5:00 am
"They were trying to kill
us... because we were Christians." — Teenage girl from Homs, Syria.
There have been house-to-house
searches in Mali for Christians who might be in hiding, and people tortured
into revealing Christian relatives. At least one pastor was beheaded.
It is to the media's shame that
those who slaughter, behead, crucify and displace people for no other reason
than that they are Christian rarely get media coverage, while Israel, which
kills only in the context of trying to defend itself from rocket attacks and
terrorism, and not out of religious bigotry, is constantly demonized.
Paying jizya [special poll
tax for non-Muslims] is not only about money. It is about subjugation.
Christian
refugees, who fled or were expelled from Mosul, crowd around a truck
distributing food aid. (Image source: Facebook video screenshot)
While the world fixates on the conflict between Israel and Hamas—and
while most mainstream media demonize Israel for trying to survive amid a sea
of Arab-Islamic hostility—similar or worse tragedies continue to go virtually
ignored.
One of the most ancient Christian communities in the world, that of
Iraq—which already had been decimated over the last decade, by Islamic forces
unleashed after the ousting of Saddam Hussein—has now been wiped out entirely
by the new "caliphate," the so-called Islamic State, formerly known
by the acronym "ISIS."
As Reuters reported:
Islamist insurgents have issued an ultimatum to northern Iraq's
dwindling Christian population to either convert to Islam, pay a religious
levy or face death, according to a statement distributed in the
militant-controlled city of Mosul….
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World Ignores Christian Exodus from Islamic World
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