Are Christains being Systematically Murdered in the Middle East?

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That’s a really odd statement.

Could you please give me some specific details on when the Chaldeans were busy slaughtering Muslims or when Syrian Christians engaged in such behavior?.

I"m not familiar with Arab Christians outside of Lebanon engaged in slaughter of Arab Muslims, nor for that matter am I aware of Muslims who’ve accused Arab Christians, outside of some Lebanese groups, engaged in such behavior.

I suppose you could bring up the Armenians when the Dashniaks tried to carve an independent Armenia, but that was, literally, a hundred years ago, nobody but the Turks remembers or cares, and the Ottomans did more than get their revenge.

As it is, for well over a thousand years, in most Middle Eastern countries it was Muslims who were the people in power and the Christians who were the minorities who generally faced soft discrimination which got vastly worse when Muslims felt threatened by outside forces, most notably the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the collapse of various tinpot dictatorships, the creation of Israel, and of course recent events.

Respectfully, perhaps I’m wrong, but I think you may have made a poorly thought out comment that inadvertently insulted people being slaughtered who don’t deserve it and patronized the people doing the slaughtering.

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Wow. Such enlightenment.

Tips fedora

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If people as a group are being persecuted and systematically exterminated on grounds of their ethnicity or religion it’s usually called genocide. Christians and Yazidis are definitely being persecuted in this way in Iraq/Syria (& to a lesser extend in other Muslim Middle Eastern nations). ISIS are also persecuting Shiits in the same manner, but they’re not in danger of being exterminated as a ethnicity/religion. Other Sunnis are also being treated in an atrocious manner by ISIS/Assad/etc. but are not systematically being exterminated as a group.

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I don’t think it should matter more in terms of our response to that country, but in response to refugees then if someone from that area can give evidence that they are a Christian (some of it would be easy, esp for the male refugees) then it would, now, be evidence that they are an asylum seeker rather than an economic migrant. The same criteria would, I think, help them get access to refugee camps in neighbouring countries, if we accept that Christians are being persecuted in areas controlled by ISIS.

TBH I don’t know the criteria for persecution but I’d disbelieve anyone who claimed that Christians are not being persecuted in ISIS-controlled territories.