All persecution is evil, whether it is of Uighur Muslims in northwestern China or of Yazidi on a barren hilltop in Kurdistan. Yet the U.S. mainstream media seems to be downplaying, if not ignoring, the intense persecution of Christian Iraqis by the self-proclaimed “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS), the pretentious self-appellation of a group of Islamist murderers.
In Iraqi cities like Mosul and Qaraqosh, as many as 100,000 self-identified Christians have fled from their brutal oppressors after being given the choice of converting to Islam, paying a “dhimmi” tax as subservient, submissive residents of the Islamic state, or being executed. In the words of ISIS itself, “We offer (Christians) three choices: Islam; the dhimma contract—involving payment of jizya; if they refuse this they will have nothing but the sword.”
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