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'We Are All Christians': Anti-ISIS Graffiti Appears in Mosul after Terrorists Expel Christians
For more than a week since the arrival in Mosul, Iraq, of the jihadist terror group Islamic State (formerly ISIS), reports out of the city were relatively quiet. ISIS, NBC reported, dedicated itself to rebuilding infrastructure and helping Sunni Muslims. All that changed this week, as the last Christian was forced out of the ancient city.
Reports began surfacing last week that after using the first weeks of its rule to cement its position in Mosul's power structure, ISIS, having now established a ration system for food, had begun denying rations to Christians and Shi'ite Muslims in the city. The Assyrian International News Agency reported that food shop workers and goods merchants were warned that providing food and goods to Christians could result in death.
As the Christian residents fled, ISIS began burning down the city's most important Christian monuments, from the Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of Mosul to a smaller, 1,800-year-old church within city limits. It is believed that currently, finally, all Christians have left the city, choosing to begin their lives elsewhere over converting to the ISIS version of radical Sunni Islam. As Breitbart News' Tera Dahl reports from nearby Erbil, Iraq - where many Christians are believed to be fleeing - it is estimated that cities like Erbil, which are safe from ISIS, thanks to the work of Kurdish peshmerga soldiers, will receive up to 500,000 Christian refugees.
Even in such moments of so little choice from Christian communities, however, resistance has sprung. Distributed widely through social media, particularly Twitter, there is an image Monday of anti-ISIS graffiti in the heart of Mosul, a vandalism of ISIS's own vandalism of a home. Using the red "N" sprayed on what was recently a Christian building, someone has spelled out: "We are all Christians":
Resistance against #ISIS #IS: Iraqis bravely start painting "we are all Christians" on their homes, buildings pic.twitter.com/2bvcSKKH0r
— Raquel E Saraswati (@RaquelEvita) July 20, 2014
Also read: Hundreds of Muslims Join Pro-Christian, Anti-ISIS Rally in Baghdad
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