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(OPINION) Imagine that on a given day, dozens of armed men attack your village. The surprise attack, executed with extreme cruelty, results in the murder of almost all the men. They also rape women and abuse elderly citizens. They decapitate babies for fun, then take girls and boys hostage in return for a high ransom.
Now, imagine that a radical group invades the land of your ancestors, threatening to erase any vestige of another religion in your country from the map. The invaders mark the houses of those they call “infidels.” They keep everything that’s yours. The leaders of your community, for not converting, are beheaded in public. Women are given as spoils of war and abused as sexual slaves.
On top of all that, these extremists desecrate the places of worship where your faith has been practiced for thousands of years.
Finally, imagine that there is a terrorist group in your country. It maintains a territorial enclave from where it threatens to impose its religion, using violence on the rest of the population who mostly practice another religion.
From that enclave it has perpetrated systematic attacks against civilians for decades, with the sole objective of forcing them to leave. Recently, some elderly people were burned alive, others were beaten to death and hundreds of girls were kidnapped (who remain until today with an unknown fate).
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Now, imagine that a radical group invades the land of your ancestors, threatening to erase any vestige of another religion in your country from the map. The invaders mark the houses of those they call “infidels.” They keep everything that’s yours. The leaders of your community, for not converting, are beheaded in public. Women are given as spoils of war and abused as sexual slaves.
On top of all that, these extremists desecrate the places of worship where your faith has been practiced for thousands of years.
Finally, imagine that there is a terrorist group in your country. It maintains a territorial enclave from where it threatens to impose its religion, using violence on the rest of the population who mostly practice another religion.
From that enclave it has perpetrated systematic attacks against civilians for decades, with the sole objective of forcing them to leave. Recently, some elderly people were burned alive, others were beaten to death and hundreds of girls were kidnapped (who remain until today with an unknown fate).
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Israel At War: Reminder That Islamic Terrorism Also Threatens Christians
(OPINION) Christians in the Middle East and other places (like Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh) have also had to endure for decades (or even hundreds of years) living in territories occupied by different Islamic groups.
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