'I Tell My Story, Because It's the Best Weapon I Have'

Family Research Council ^ | July 16, 2019 | Tony Perkins and FRC senior writers

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

"It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it. When I tell someone about the checkpoint where the men raped me, or the feeling of Hajji Salman's whip across the blanket as I lay under it, or the darkening Mosul sky while I searched the neighborhood for some sign of help, I am transported back to those moments and all their terror." --Nadia Murad, Survivor

The slave market, she explained, opened at night. "We could hear the commotion downstairs where militants were registering and organizing, and when the first man entered the room, all the girls started screaming. It was like the scene of an explosion. We moaned as though wounded, doubling over and vomiting on the floor, but none of it stopped [them]." Men strutted through the room, while the young women sobbed.

"They gravitated toward the most beautiful girls first, asking, 'How old are you?' and examining their hair and mouths. 'They are virgins, right?' they asked a guard, who nodded and said, 'Of course!' like a shopkeeper taking pride in his product. Now the militants touched us anywhere they wanted, running their hands [everywhere], as if we were animals." Nadia thought about whether she could fight. She watched other girls slap away hands, curl their bodies into balls on the floor, and throw themselves on younger sisters or friends. In the end, she was taken -- her dreams of becoming a teacher gone, along with her mother and six brothers, all massacred by ISIS right in front of her.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

"Then you will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be hated all over the world because you are my followers." --Jesus Christ

[txrefugee]

Jesus always tells us the truth. But in the midst of suffering and torture at the hands of the evildoers, followers of Jesus have already won the victory.

The evildoers will suffer in Hell forever, while the followers of Jesus glory in His promise to them, “He that lives and believes in Me will never die.” Those who stand strong in their faith in Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, will live forever in the perfect Heaven He has promised them.

[Psalm 73]

"...And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy...The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones...having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written:
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.
I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus....
Revelations 17:3-6