Kurds Helping Christians

"The Kurdish regional government in Northern Iraq is providing a safe haven to several thousand Iraqi Christians who have fled persecution in other parts of the country, government officials and local pastors told Newsmax." "Christians in Iraq need special attention, because they’ve been suffering because they are Christians,” Deputy Prime Minister Omar Fattah told Newsmax in an exclusive interview in Erbil. “Maybe we give some instructions to others where they can go, but to Christians, never, because we are not afraid they will be terrorists."

I think this is an important situation that more Americans should be made aware of. Undeniably, despite current religious views, the American Framers developed the foundation of our country upon the same values that these people are being persecuted for upholding. There is a very real threat in the world to the way we as Americans live our lives. The rights and freedoms we believe are deserved for the simple reason of being humane and moral are being challenged in other parts of the world.

In Baghdad, "the terrorists told them that as Christians, they had no right to remain in a Muslim land without submitting to Muslim rule. To escape the jizya, some Christian refugees said they were told they must marry one of their daughters to a Muslim. Instead, when they could, they fled.