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EmailDec. 17, 2015
Hunted by ISIS, afraid to enter refugee camps, they are undercounted and desperate for help.
Abraham Cooper and Yitzchok Adlerstein write in an op-ed that “Donald Trump’s bizarre proposal to bar all Muslim immigrants from the U.S. has overshadowed a more legitimate concern regarding religion and immigration: Middle East Christians who are desperate to escape the genocidal campaign against them by Islamic State.” The authors note that“Christians have been tortured, raped and even crucified. Mosul, Iraq, which was home to a Christian population of 35,000 a decade ago, is now empty of Christians after an ISIS ultimatum that they either convert to Islam or be executed.”
