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Pros And Cons Of Eradicate Christians

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“Christians have lived here and walked these streets for over a thousand years. But today, there’s no one - they're all gone. Driven out by fear. And one of the most striking things that you notice is the silence”
The Islamic state is trying to eradicate christians from the area because they want to take it over, and they don't care what they have to do to get to the top. This has become one of the largest displacements ever, more than 125,000 Islamic Christians have been removed from their homes. “As it seeks to erase Christianity from the landscape, the Islamic state allows no Christian symbols” (Logan, 3). ISIS will not allow christians to pray in their churches, they have taken over some of them to use as bases, they also burn Christian …show more content…

They used to just let people leave, without money or documents, but they would let them leave. Now they are killing more people, in terrible ways and torturing them, trying to instill fear into the families that still reside there.What was once a safe haven for Christians and a place to go to see the genesis of Christianity has now become a ghost town.“Every road was deserted. Houses and possessions abandoned. Others destroyed” ( Logan, 4). People are fleeing Iraq and giving ISIS just what they want. They are also using nazi techniques of marking Christian homes so they can force them out. The Islamic state has been assembling children's camps where they are speculated to be training young boys to use weapons and hurt other people. “One 13-year-old boy, who later escaped the camp, said that he witnessed beheadings, stonings and crucifixion that the militants carried out and forced others to watch.” (Stoyan, 2) They are a sadistic group, getting pleasure out of hurting others and forcing other people to

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