Miranda Devine –, Tuesday, July, 29, 2014, (7:11pm)
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IN the ancient Christian city of Mosul in Iraq the terrorist group Islamic State (formerly ISIL) has painted the Arabic letter “N” on doors of houses to signify that a Christian family lives inside and is in store for special treatment.
That treatment includes torture, crucifixion, beheading or, for the lucky ones, forced conversion to Islam. Yet all we hear is Gaza Gaza Gaza.
There is a Christian genocide going on in the Middle East and Africa.
Eleven Christians every hour are being slaughtered — 100,000 Christian martyrs a year, according to the US Centre for the Study of Global Christianity.
Christians are the most persecuted group on the planet but the Left is only exercised about dead Palestinian children, because it gives them an opportunity to kick Israel.
What other explanation can there be for their silence about the hundreds of thousands of dead children in Syria, Iraq, Libya, the Central African Republic? They pretend to be champions of human rights but they are very selective about which humans they champion.
It doesn’t compute for the Left to see Christians as victims. Nor can they fathom that the Israelis they like to call “Zionists” are victims, because the word “Jew” makes them uncomfortable, with its reminders of the Holocaust.
But here we see today in Mosul the same persecution we saw in Nazi Germany leading up to Hitler’s genocide.
And the compassionistas turn a blind eye.
It’s not that there isn’t just as much gruesome imagery of dead children available on the internet to prick their consciences. There are photos of women and children slaughtered in their homes. Murdered as they cowered in bathrooms or sat in their tidy loungerooms. God knows what happened to the men.
But for the likes of Greens MP Lee Rhiannon, the only oppressor is Israel, the only victim Muslim.
More Muslims have been killed by their fellow Muslims than any Jew or infidel Western army.
The Palestinian people, the Iraqis, the Syrians, they know fanatical Islam is the real enemy, but Rhiannon and friends keep finding excuses.
As for the Christian cleansing of Mosul, where Christians have co-existed with Muslims for 2000 years, that barely rates a mention from the hand-wringing Left.
The last remaining Christians fled Mosul a week ago after the Islamic State issued an ultimatum: Convert, pay an Islamic tax or be killed.
“If they refuse there is nothing for them but the sword,” read the Islamic State declaration.
The red “N” that the terrorists painted on houses in Mosul is the symbol for “Nazarene” or Christian.
It looks ominously like a smiley face missing an eye, but on the internet it has taken on a new life.
A grassroots movement has erupted on Twitter, using the “N” as a symbol of solidarity with the persecuted Christians of Mosul under the hashtag #WeAreN and #IAmNazrene.
But the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq, Rafael Sarko, has predicted the number of Christians in Iraq will fall to just 50,000 within a decade, down from 1.3 million in 2003.
France has heard the call and offered asylum to Iraq’s Christian refugees.
“France is outraged by these abuses that it condemns with the utmost firmness,” said the Foreign and Interior ministers in a statement.
“We are ready, if they so desire, to help facilitate asylum on our territory.”
Australia should do the same. Now the Abbott government has all but stopped the boats, we have humanitarian places free that aren’t being occupied by the fake refugees Sarah Hanson-Young is so enamoured of.
We should make Mosul’s homeless Christians a special humanitarian offer. We can’t take them all but we can join France in offering moral leadership to the world.
