Christian children on the new killing fields

Remember when the Khmer Rouge ordered people out of the cities of Cambodia and then went about systematically killing leaders of the country and their families. The leader of the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, killed approximately 1.7 million people. Adolf Hitler killed over 6 million Jews, Gypsies and gay people. The Holocaust will be forever etched in the minds of all mankind. For the most part the world community stood back and let this happen.

Mankind is about to watch ISIS, or the Islamic Stat,e commit genocide on the people of Iraq. The leader of ISIS has ordered the mutilation of women’s genitals in the city of Mosul. ISIS demands that people convert to Islam or be killed; most flee for their lives. The Islamic State kills and crucifies publicly some of its victims. ISIS, as it was called before becoming the Islamic State, was connected to al Qaida, then was rejected by al-Qaida for being to violent

Amidst the violent persecution inflicted on Christians in Iraq, many pleas for help in Syria have gone unheard. Radical Islamic extremists have cut water and electricity from Christian communities. Families are unable to flee their homes to find safer shelter. Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, has been all but emptied of Christians and other religious minorities fleeing this extreme persecution. Those that remain are often too sick, weak, or poor to leave. As this violence continues, Christians throughout the Middle East and the world are watching and wondering, who will step in and stop this Christian persecution?