From Investors Business Daily.
Excerpt:
The fanatical Islamist group torches an 1,800-year-old church built before the founding of Islam and forces the Christian residents of Mosul to convert, pay a tax, leave or face execution.
[…]A photo released by Ammon News on Saturday showed a 1,800-year-old church that was set on fire by ISIL militants in Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city.
It was part of a campaign against Christians there, and the destruction of their property was reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s Kristallnacht, often referred to as the “Night of Broken Glass,” a series of violent anti-Jewish pogroms that took place on November 9 and 10, 1938.
Thousands of Christians in Mosul began fleeing the city after ISIL issued an ultimatum on Friday to Iraqi Christians living in Mosul that by Saturday at noon (5 a.m. ET), they must convert to Islam, pay a fine or face “death by the sword.”
[…]On Monday, normally payday for municipal workers in Mosul, state workers were ordered not to pay the Christian employees. ISIL also forbade food to be distributed to Christian or Shiite families.
One state employee told the Arabic news outlet Ankawa that he was “warned that if he gives rations to Christians and Shiites, he will be charged and prosecuted according to Shariah law.”
From Nigeria to Egypt to Afghanistan and back, this story of Christian persecution continues without much notice from the White House.
The big question for me is, why isn’t this a big story in the mainstream media? I guess the victims are wrong. If it was trees or polar bears, then there would be a story. But it’s Christians, so there’s no story.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
I listened to this yesterday on NPR. http://www.npr.org/2014/07/21/333737409/life-under-the-islamic-state-order-in-the-shadow-of-terror.
No mention of the burning of any churches and yes the Obama administration isn’t saying much about the situation. The Obama foreign policy has had some success in Europe but mostly failure in the rest of the world.
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Some success in Europe? The Ukrainian civil war doesn’t look very successful to me. The only success Obama has had in Europe is finding a Nobel committee stupid enough to give him the Nobel Peace Prize.
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FYI, I heard NPR talking about this at length on my commute to work yesterday morning.
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Well, I stand corrected then.
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I think your original point is at least 90% valid though and I thank you for bringing it up. NPR often goes more in depth on stories and they could have covered it in more detail. Other news organizations have had more detail about Israel and civilian casualties than about the theft, slavery, torture and murder of Christians and Muslims at the hands of Muslims enforcing sharia law. The media has also been focusing on the conflict in Ukraine almost every day.
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ISIS has demanded that all Christians pay the tax, convert or die: that women be circumcized, and God (literally) help you if you are gay, or a Druze, or Buddhist.
But talking about these fascist bastards is not part of the narrative, because it speaks to the failue of the lightbringer. The parallels with the NSDAP and FDR borrowing ideas from them must also remain unspoken.
But the wise see, and pack their bug out bags.
And I praise God that he moved me to the southernmost univeristy in the world.
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Christians are the most persecuted religious group today, yet we would barely know this from most of the mainstream media.
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I heard it on NPR, too.
“You know, Christians have been in Mosul since the birth of Christianity 2000 years ago and now basically none are left. The Islamic State gave them an ultimatum — convert, pay a poll tax, leave by Saturday or die by the sword.”
I did not expect to hear that on NPR.
So I agree with Mr. Peters and Francine that it’s not entirely fair to say “Western media silent”. On the other hand, as Mr. Peters suggests, part of the reason I took notice when NPR mentioned it is that, well, I don’t normally expect to hear things like that on NPR. So you’re also right.
See also “Things You Hear on NPR”
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