See whole article: “Christians of Mosul Find Haven in Jordan“
Radwan Shamra, 35, hoped he could survive the sectarian war between his Muslim countrymen even as many of his neighbors fled the violence that engulfed Iraq. Warrick Page for The New York Times (click)
After capturing the city in June, the Sunni militant group gave Christians a day to make up their minds: convert, pay a tax, or be killed. [Otherwise, of course, “there is no compulsion in religion.”]
Mostly, they are haunted by the abrupt end to their lives in Iraq, and to a Christian tradition that had survived in Mosul for more than 1,700 years.
“We are very much part of the Arab culture, we are citizens of Iraq,” he said. “What do we go back to? There is no home, and if this continues, there will be no country.”
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