The Death of Christian Mosul

Despite a modest Internet uptick due to social media, no one in the mainstream media is adequately covering this story. The stakes are high, dire, and apply to all of humanity. This is a news story which far supersedes the 75th anniversary of Batman, the advent of the iPhone 6, or anything that Kim and Kanye are up to, and yet no one is hearing enough about it. The advance of ISIS in Syria and Iraq has all but wiped out some of the most ancient Christian communities. Some of the most important early Christian manuscripts which resided in monasteries there have been burned. There are pictures of people being crucified. Priests who have been encouraging dialogue and peace for years in the region have been dragged from their homes, shot, and killed. There is more than one account of nuns being raped. Now the arabic letter "nuun," which in this case stands for Nazarene, is scribbled across the doors of the Christian minority who are then driven from their homes.

After the 1930s, after the Jewish populations of Europe were driven from their homes into the ghettos, after they were forced to wear the symbol of the Star of David to identify themselves, and after what they held most dear was destroyed on the Kristallnacht, we did nothing. We are doing nothing again. After we realized during the liberation of Germany and Poland in the second World War that six million Jewish people had been systematically exterminated we collectively as humanity said "never again!" Words don't express how right we were right to do so.

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