#WeAreN Hashtag Stands In Solidarity With Iraqi Christians Under Attack

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Antonia Blumberg

Christians have come under attack in Iraq where Islamic State militants recently launched a violent takeover. In one statement insurgents declared that northern Iraq's Christian population must convert to Islam, pay a religious tax or face execution.

After close to 2,000 years of history, Iraqi Christians have been steadily fleeing since the Islamic State, an offshoot of al Qaeda, began its assault to take over northern parts of the country.

Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, the head of Iraq's largest church, compared the Islamic State to Genghis Khan, saying: "The heinous crime of the Islamic State was carried out not just against Christians, but against humanity."

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