Post by Rev Hopkins on Sept 4, 2014 13:19:09 GMT -5
Convert to Islam, pay a religious levy or die.
Those are the conditions offered to Christians and other religious minorities in northern Iraq by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Since the Islamic State (formerly called ISIL and ISIS), a Sunni extremist group that has overrun vast swaths of the republic and declared a new caliphate, began its march from Syria toward Baghdad several months ago, most of the estimated 200,000 Christians who remained in the country have taken the only other option available and fled.
In so doing, they have left the ancient city of Mosul bereft of its ancient Christian communities for the first time in nearly two millennia.
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Those are the conditions offered to Christians and other religious minorities in northern Iraq by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Since the Islamic State (formerly called ISIL and ISIS), a Sunni extremist group that has overrun vast swaths of the republic and declared a new caliphate, began its march from Syria toward Baghdad several months ago, most of the estimated 200,000 Christians who remained in the country have taken the only other option available and fled.
In so doing, they have left the ancient city of Mosul bereft of its ancient Christian communities for the first time in nearly two millennia.
Read More