source http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/world/middleeast/isis-forces-last-iraqi-christians-to-flee-mosul.html?_r=0

BAGHDAD — By 1 p.m. on Friday almost every Christian in Mosul had heard the Sunni militants’ message — they had until noon Saturday to leave the city.

Men, women and children piled into neighbors’ cars, some begged for rides to the city limits and hoped to get taxis to the nearest Christian villages. They took nothing more than the clothes on their backs, according to several who were reached late Friday.

The order from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria came after Christians decided not to attend a meeting that ISIS had arranged for Thursday night to discuss their status.

“We were so afraid to go,” said Duraid Hikmat, an expert on minorities who had done research for years in Mosul. He fled two weeks ago to Al Qosh, a largely Christian town barely an hour away, but his extended family left on Friday.

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Since 2003, when Saddam Hussein was ousted, Mosul’s Christians, one of the oldest communities of its kind in the world, had seen their numbers dwindle from over 30,000 to just a few thousand, but once ISIS swept into the city in early June, there were reports that the remaining Christians had fled.

Interviews on Friday with Christian elders and leaders suggest that in fact many had hung on, hoping for an accommodation, a way to continue the quiet practice of their faith in the city that had been their home for more than 1,700 years. Chaldeans, Assyrians and other sects, including Mandeans, a Gnostic community who revere John the Baptist, could still be found in Iraq, and many made their home on the plains of Nineveh in the north of the country, an area mentioned in the Bible’s Book of Genesis.

Friday’s edict, however, was probably the real end. While a few scattered souls may find a way to stay in secret, the community will be gone.

A YouTube video shows ISIS taking sledgehammers to the tomb of Jonah, something that was also confirmed by Mr. Hikmat. The militants also removed the cross from St. Ephrem’s Cathedral, the seat of the Syriac Orthodox archdiocese in Mosul, and put up the black ISIS flag in its place. They also destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary, according to Ghazwan Ilyas, the head of the Chaldean Culture Society in Mosul, who spoke by telephone on Thursday from Mosul but seemed to have left on Friday.

“They did not destroy the churches, but they killed us when they removed the cross, this is death for us,” he said.

Christians are among several minorities who are being systematically expelled or killed by ISIS, according to a United Nations report on civilian casualties in Iraq released on Friday.

Among them are Yazidis, a tiny sect that has survived for centuries and whose theology fuses elements of Islam, Christianity and Zoroastrianism; Shabaks, who are often described as Shiites whose language is close to Persian and who take beliefs from different traditions; and Shiite Turkmen.

The Yazidis and the Shabaks are being persecuted in the Sinjar area west of Mosul, according to the United Nations and interviews with members of both communities. The United Nations has documented scores of abductions and killings as well as the destruction of shrines.

We are waiting for our Nigerian muslims to rally against this, or is it only Palestine that needs sympathy?

SalC: We are waiting for our Nigerian muslims to rally against this, or is it only Palestine that needs sympathy?

why should they stage a demonstration against what allah has commanded all muslims worldwide to do

SalC: We are waiting for our Nigerian muslims to rally against this, or is it only Palestine that needs sympathy?

we are going too far. there are at least 4 threads of people whining about palestinian kids, no one, not even the UN seems to be interested in this sad case.

The hypocrisy of Islam. They make an outcry against the Israelis expelling the Palestinians but they see this and look the other way. It is indeed saddening that this behavior of theirs is true to other areas of their lives. A Muslim is getting oppressed and they all cry foul, thousands of Christians are killed, ten thousands in the north and its political, christian girls are abducted, people being sent off the land of their fathers. Anyway, I am not in surprised. That's what their religion teaches them. You kill an infidel and you are good, in so far as Allah permits it. Funny how they all still shout religion of peace. It was founded on war, propagated by war, established by war, preached by war, sustained by war, never has been peaceful, never will be.
Hope this gets to front page sometime. Let's see how they are going to react. Enough of the one sided relaying. Enough of the hypocrisy

bestads:

why should they stage a demonstration against what allah has commanded all muslims worldwide to do

That's sad! But when others use thesame measurement their Allah asked them to use on infidels on them, they cry foul!

davidylan:

we are going too far. there are at least 4 threads of people whining about palestinian kids, no one, not even the UN seems to be interested in this sad case.

That's the sad news! Why would they care? Christians are the ones being disbanded from their fatherland and there is 95% chance they will not lift a hand against their oppressors. Therefore they should either convert, pay tax to the muslims, leave the land or die! Their sacred places are being. Blown up and the black ISIS flag raised in it's stead yet no one cares. We are watching the so called religion of peace.

Islam is a demonic cult packaged to deceive the gullible & it's unfortunate that many had fallen deep into this Islamic satanic cult.

Muslim radicalized followers continue jihad....

true2god: Islam is a demonic cult packaged to deceive the gullible & it's unfortunate that many had fallen deep into this Islamic satanic cult.

Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance not a demonic cult

SalC: That's the sad news! Why would they care? Christians are the ones being disbanded from their fatherland and there is 95% chance they will not lift a hand against their oppressors. Therefore they should either convert, pay tax to the muslims, leave the land or die! Their sacred places are being. Blown up and the black ISIS flag raised in it's stead yet no one cares. We are watching the so called religion of peace.

when you slap an xtian on one cheek, he is supposed to turn the other cheek, so that you slap that too...and after slapping the second cheek...you are on your own....

bestads:

when you slap an xtian on one cheek, he is supposed to turn the other cheek, so that you slap that too...and after slapping the second cheek...you are on your own....

I don't get it, is this supposed to be a joke?

SalC: I don't get it, is this supposed to be a joke?

Go and read your bible and stop pinging and browsing away your life you will see it

bestads:

Go and read your bible and stop pinging and browsing away your life you will see it

I read the bible probably more than you do, but I'm yet to see where the bible said after slapping the second cheek you are on your own. Care to show me?

SalC: I read the bible probably more than you do, but I'm yet to see where the bible said after slapping the second cheek you are on your own. Care to show me?

After the slapper finishes slapping the second cheek, he will discover that apostle peter has a sharp sword to cut off the head of the slapper and if he misses the head, the one ear of the slapper will be cut off.

ISIS agents are now in Nigeria