When the storm troopers of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took Mosul, they marked the homes of Christians with a red Arabic “N” for “Nazarene,” targeting those families for “extermination or expropriation.” That’s what Jeremy Courtney, founder/director of Preemptive Love, an Iraqi-based aid organization, tweeted when the violently radical Sunni invaders struck.
Paul Rauschenbusch details the persecution of Christians, Yazidis and other religious/ethnic minorities facing ISIS onslaughts as described by Courtney whose agency assists Iraqi children and works for peace in the region. Pope Francis also responded, declaring: “Thousands of people, among them many Christians, [are] banished brutally from their houses, children dying of hunger and thirst as they flee, women kidnapped, people massacred, violence of all kinds. All of this deeply offends God and deeply offends humanity."
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