More crisis aid

Islamic State (IS) does not tolerate minority misfits in those regions where they've pounded the people into submission.  So hundreds of thousands of religious minorities, Christians and others, have run for their lives.

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But the BBC reports a small sort of movement that has sprung up among Muslims on Twitter opposing Sharia law (which takes some courage).  "[T]he conversation [lists] reasons why Arabs and Muslims should abandon Sharia. "Because there's not a single positive example of it bringing justice and equality," one man tweeted."

Regarding the refugees, an American pastor - born in Iraq - continues to wonder why American Christians have not done more for them.  He has started an aid fund.  

Canon Andrew White's organization in Baghdad also continues "providing food, accommodation, clothing, and disabled aids to those in great need. Last year we could have never dreamt that we would be facing this level of crisis – with our people being hounded from their homes, our people being massacred and having nowhere to go for real safety."