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News: Islamic State: Christians in Mosul to switch to Islam or die
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Islamic State: Christians in Mosul to switch to Islam or die
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Iraqi Christians in Mosul told by ISIS to convert to Islam or be executed
Iraqi Christians who were forced to flee the northern city of Mosul under threat of forced conversion or execution by jihadists have spoken of their terror as churches were turned into mosques and their homes and property confiscated.
The expulsion of one of the world's oldest Christian communities provoked condemnation and anguish from figures as diverse as the pope and Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, who lambasted the Islamic State (Isis) for its "criminality and terrorism".
Last weekend Isis gave the city's Christians a stark choice: convert to Islam, pay a religious tax, or face death. "They said there is no place for Christians in the Islamic state," one distraught refugee said from the safety of Bashiqa, 16 miles from Mosul. "Either you become Muslim or you leave." Mosul's last 1,500 Christian families were reportedly robbed at Isis checkpoints as they fled.
Hundreds have found shelter in areas between Mosul and Irbil – the capital of the Kurdistan regional government – that are controlled by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, but they face an uncertain future.
"If Isis stays, there is no way the Christians can return," Father Boutrous Moshi told the Guardian from Qara Qoosh, a Christian area south-east of Mosul. "It is up to God whether we return or not. They have not burned the churches but they did set fire to the pictures and the books and broke the windows."
Monks at the fourth-century Mar Behnam monastery, a major pilgrimage site run by the Syriac Catholic church, were allowed to take only the clothes they were wearing.
Sarab Hazem, from the Zehoor neighbourhood of Mosul, said that initially there were no attacks on Christians when Isis took the city in a lightning offensive in June, though Isis fighters did capture and take away police, security agents and soldiers. "No one knows what becomes of them," he said. Then, statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary were destroyed. "They are savages," Hazem said. "This is oppression for no reason. I believe it is no longer possible for Christians to live in Iraq."
Bashar Nasih Behnam, 52, who fled with his two young children last Friday, told a similar story: "They [Isis] threatened us and said you can't stay in Mosul and you have to leave," he said. "They said we have conditions: either you comply with them or you leave. So we left."
Deprived by Isis of Iraqi government rations (a legacy of the sanctions imposed in the Saddam Hussein era) they were too frightened to go out to their church, where the jihadis took down a statue of the Virgin Mary and put their black flag in its place. A monastery was turned into a mosque. Two nuns who were looking after three orphans were kidnapped but later released. The Arabic letter "N" for Nasrani (Christians) was daubed on the doors of houses – to show that they had been seized as the property of the Islamic state declared by Isis.
"There is not a single Christian family left in Mosul," Behnam said. "The last one was a disabled Christian woman. She stayed because she could not get out. They came to her and said you have to get out and if you don't we will cut off your head with a sword. That was the last family. There is not a single family that left and was not robbed. They took our money, gold, even the earrings from their [women's] ears. They took everything, even mobile phones.
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Damn , another Anti-islam thread from you 
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ISIS being thieving hoodrats. 
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This is what the cult of islam orders all muslims to do regarding everyone who isn't a muslim:
"Kill the disbelievers wherever they find them (2:191), murder them and treat them harshly (9:123), slay them (9:5), fight with them (8:65 ), strive against them with great endeavor (25:52), be stern with them because they belong to hell (66:9) and strike off their heads; then after making a “wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives” for ransom (47:4), ...And fight them until there is no more (worshiping others besides Allah), and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world] 8:39"
Apologists for islam will say "Oh, but that is only in time of war", but any imam can declare war - and many already have done so multiple times.
Finally, because it's a command in the koran any muslim who doesn't believe all unbelievers should be killed or enslaved is actually committing heresy. The islamic penalty for heresy is death (4:89), which is why so many otherwise-mainstream muslims simply stay silent when extremists do extreme things.
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Write the name of the state, there's nothing known as an Islamic state since islam isn't a country.
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Do you look up Islam on google every single hour? You seem to be always posting about them
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I'd rather be beheaded than deny Christ.
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Isn't the penalty for leaving Islam death?
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ISIS should be exterminated  this is the worst terrorist group ever and they're damaging the name of Islam.
Why the world is ignoring this humanitarian crisis? It's really sad thousands of christians have to flee their homes, they've been living in that area pretty much since the beginning. 
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Islam isn't a country
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Originally posted by heckinglovato
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The key words aren't Islamic or State
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Originally posted by G.U.Y
Damn , another Anti-islam thread from you |
So if he posted the reciepts of Palestinian victims in Gaza that would make him automatically anti-semitic?
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Originally posted by G.U.Y
Damn , another Anti-islam thread from you |
It's just facts, why shouldn't they post it
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Originally posted by PromKing
The key words aren't Islamic or State
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Lol sis
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now called simply the Islamic State (IS)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic...and_the_Levant
Also referred to as Islamic State on New York Times, USA Today, TIME, Telegraph, Aljazeera, Military, etc...
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Wow! surprised at the OP!
get a grip
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Originally posted by PromKing
The key words aren't Islamic or State
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They declared themselves the "Islamic State", just that...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28082962
"Jihadist militant group Isis has said it is establishing a caliphate, or Islamic state, on the territories it controls in Iraq and Syria..."
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Originally posted by IcarusIsFlying
Isn't the penalty for leaving Islam death? |
A woman was recently sentenced to death and held in prison for marrying a Christian. Only after international pressure did they let her go.
Edit: She is Sudanese:
http://ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blo...-christian-man
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