Commentary by Judie Brown, President, Co-Founder
American Life League
It is with growing concern that Americans watch the travesties being perpetrated against Christians in Mosul, Iraq. One man who was interviewed for USA Today told his story, “When we left in the middle of the night, we were stripped of everything. Money, wallets, jewelry, ID, passports, watches, everything. . . . At the Daesh checkpoint on the way out of the city, my wife was even stripped of her earrings. They took everything of value we had.”
Such total disregard for the human being, not to mention hatred for Christianity itself, seems to be one of the many violent characteristics of the Islamic war against believers in Iraq these days.
Writer Kirsten Powers recently opined, “Iraq’s Christians are begging the world for help. Is anybody listening?” She went on to write, “For the first time in 2,000 years, Mosul is devoid of Christians.” Human rights lawyer Nina Shea told Powers, “This is ancient Nineveh we are talking about. . . . They took down all the crosses. They blew up the tomb of the prophet Jonah. An orthodox Cathedral has been turned into a mosque. . . . They are uprooting every vestige of Christianity.”
Horrific seems like an appropriate description of such events. They are a tragic example of man’s inhumanity toward his fellow man—an intolerance that is carried out with the sword held to the hearts of those who will march in lockstep with the ghouls in charge.
But as we think about this as Christians ourselves, perhaps we are missing the most vital point of all in the debate. Many Americans have developed a type of historical amnesia permitting themselves to report stories of exile and murder of Christians in other countries, while at the same time sanctioning our own war on innocent children, the elderly, and adolescents.
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