Posted on 07/24/2014 6:15:17 AM PDT by marshmallow
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has removed the crosses from all 30 churches and monasteries in Mosul and converted the Syriac Orthodox cathedral into a mosque, according to the Assyrian International News Agency.
ISIL, also known as Islamic State and ISIS, took over Iraq’s 2nd-largest city in June and later ordered all Christians to leave, pay an unspecified tax, or convert to Islam. The jihadist group now controls 40% of Iraq and 30% of Syria.
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Islam showing its true face.
MEMO TO POPE: Strap on your backbone and do something. Fight back or lose everything to Islam on the march. Propagation of Islam by the sword is already underway. Martyring of Christians not only propagates Islam but reduces the number of those available to resist Islam on the march.
It would not be unprecedented to call for a Crusade to recapture these lands.
I see with the threat of Islam becoming a reality, and the martydom of Christians, an increase of the Christian faith because of the witnessing by the giving of their lives those who follow Jesus.
It took medieval Christians hundreds of years to figure out that you couldn't just turn the other cheek when fighting against the evil which is Islam.
Once Christians figured this out, they stopped the Muslim advance and nearly eradicated it from the globe. Then used that new found wisdom and converted nearly the entire world to Christianity before once again forgetting what they had learned.
But they do not celebrate Mass in Latin, so who am I to judge?
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