Syrian-American Marlo and her parents are U.S. citizens in Pittsburgh. They keep trying to bring their extended family to the U.S. from Syria, but they're frustrated in this effort. She explains how dangerous it is to be Christian in Syria now:
“What people don’t understand is, to ISIS, Christians are the scum of the Earth,” Marlo explains. "ISIS believes Christians “need to be exterminated, they are the infidels. They are a targeted group that is easy to access in Syria: They live in small communities [with] fellow Christians, they worship at the same churches. If we don’t help them, we are assisting in ISIS’s agenda, and we will have blood on our hands.”
But Marlo and her parents do feel safe here in the U.S., correct?
She writes for the Pitt News, a student newspaper, but her parents "[warn] me about writing about ISIS, Islam or sexism in the Middle East. The most “extreme” topic I’ve written about is actually sexism in the Middle East, but I made sure not to mention Islam directly at any point so that my family doesn’t fear for me."
There are, after all, radical Islamic extremists right here in America - as well as over there.
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