Patriarch of Catholics in Iraq: "ISIS" is worse than Genghis Khan and his grandson Hulagu

Patriarch of Catholics in Iraq: "ISIS" is worse than Genghis Khan and his grandson Hulagu
2014-07-21T07:29:36+00:00

to leave Mosul city as worse than the leader of the Mongols , Genghis Khan and his grandson Hulagu, who plundered and destroyed Baghdad in the Middle Ages.

 Patriarch of Catholic Chaldean , Louis Raphael Sacco has led a wave of condemnation against Sunni militant, who have given a choice to Christians between converting to Islam or paying Tributeor face death by the sword.

At the Vatican, Pope Francis denounced what he called as the persecution of Christians in the cradle of their faith, while the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon said that the actions of ISIS organization constitute a crime against humanity.

Hundreds of Christian families have left Mosul before the expiry of the deadline set by ISIS organization on Saturday, as many of them stripped of the people’s property while they were fleeing for their lives. These families are the remains of tens of thousands of Christians who were living in the city one day.

A lot of people who belong to different sects such as Shiite , Yezidi and Shabak have fled from militants who blew up shrines and seized the property of minorities.

Sacco said that the special mass held by the church in eastern Baghdad, during which 200 Muslims joined Christians to express their solidarity for the heinous crime committed by "ISIS" is not against Christians only, but also against humanity.

He wondered how does people are being forced in the twenty-century atheist to leave their homes simply because they are Christians, Shiites or Sunnis or Yazidis.

He said that Christian families have been evicted from their homes as their precious possessions have been stolen and looted as well as their homes and possessions on behalf of the Islamic state.

Sacco said that this has never happened in the Christian or Muslim history even Genghis Khan or Hulagu did not do this.

Muslims in the liturgy placards rise reading "I am Iraqi. Am a Christian," and wrote some words on their clothes.

Some wrote another letter N, which the first letter of the word "Christian” in Arabic in reference to what ISIS organization has written on the Christians’ homes to identify them and seize the houses.

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