"Imagine if a fundamentalist Christian sect captured the French city of Lyon and began a systematic purge of Muslims. Their mosques were destroyed, their crescents defaced, the Koran burned and then all Muslims forced to flee or face execution.
"Such an event would be unthinkable today, and if it did occur Pope Francis and all other Christian leaders would denounce it and support efforts by governments to stop it.
"Yet that is essentially what is happening in reverse now in Mosul..."
(from Wall Street Journal online)
"Perhaps historians will come to terms with the irony: Christianity in Iraq survived 400 years of Ottoman rule by Muslim Turks and 30 years’ Baathist Party dictatorship, only to be crushed in just over a decade after U.S. liberation of Iraq.
" On Friday, Christians remaining in Mosul—where Christianity was planted by the apostle Thomas himself in the first century—were ordered out within 24 hours by the Islamic State."
(from World Magazine online)
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