#WeAreN #PrayForIraq #PrayForPeace
A quick look at Australia's main newspapers will be full of the usual: bad politicians, gang-land figures, the recent Malaysian Airline plane shot down over Ukraine - but there will be no mention whatsoever of the very real crisis happening in Middle Eastern countries such as Syria and Iraq. There may be some tidbit of information, but one must actively search for the results, it won't be on the front cover or following pages. Seems no one cares about it here in Australia, or in other western countries.
What is happening is very real indeed. Christians have been forced out of Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, by the Islamic militant group ISIS (also known as ISIL and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant). First told to convert to Islam or die - previously there was the option of paying a tax to be able to stay, but the militants changed their minds over the weekend. Convert, or die. This, all because the leader of ISIS wants to establish an Islamic Caliphate in Iraq/Syria (a Caliphate is a theocracy, headed by a Caliph who is believed to be the successor of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad).
Mosul was once filled with Christians and had been for the past 2,000 years. Now they are all gone. Forced to leave everything behind: their homes and jobs. Militants were taking things from them as they were leaving, from precious family keep sakes handed down through generations and even Christian necklaces torn from their necks as well as wedding bands - sometimes with the finger still attached. In the past six-weeks, 500,000 people have been forced to leave.
Why is there no coverage of this in the Western media? I don't really care about some former politicians lies and indiscretions in my own country when mass genocide is happening to my Christian brothers and sisters on the other side of the world. To find any information on this topic, one has to actively search for it.
Shame on the Western mainstream media for trying to get everyone to think of something that really means nothing to anyone, and not reporting on something very real and scary happening. Fill your newspapers with biased stories on what television program to watch. After all, we're in Australia - nothing like that happens over here. Some of those in Iraq/Syria fighting for the Islamic terrorist organisation ISIS are Australian born - now that is concern people raised in a country like Australia can jump on a plane and fight alongside barbaric extremists.
Thank God for the internet where one can search and try to find out the REAL NEWS not the so-called news the mainstream media wants us to be interested in.
In solidarity and support of the forced exodus and genocide of the Iraqi Christians, I have changed my FaceBook profile picture to the Hebrew letter "nun" and continue to add the hashtag "#WeAreN". I urge the rest of you to do something similar and get people talking about this issue. Seems like it's the only way anyone finds out about this very real, very sad crisis which mainstream media will keep ignoring.
#WeAreN
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