ICC Note: Last year, Joseph Hakim was the first to suggest the creation of an independent Christian state. This was soon followed by the Philos project to draft a proposal for this. History shows the benefits and risks associated with such a decision. Read below to see how this has played out in other times.

09/19/2016 Middle East (Western Journal):  Earlier this week, Western Journalism published an article about a plan by American Christian Organizations to establish a protected Christian homeland or even an independent state for persecuted Middle Eastern Christians in the Nineveh plains in Iraq (near Mosul).

Last year, Joseph Hakim, the head of the International Christian Union, became one of the first American Christian leaders who made the case for a Christian independent state in the Middle East.

Hakim repeatedly criticized the Obama administration for not doing enough to save the Middle Eastern Christians and told Front Page magazine the following:

“Christians need a state of their own and an alliance with the U.S. and Israel. Otherwise, being leaderless and without a military force, Christians have no chance to survive.”

This was followed by another initiative by the Philos Project and In Defense of Christians that received the backing of several Congressmen and has already resulted in proposed legislation.

Those groups advocate the forming of a “protected Christian homeland” or a “Safe Haven province” in the Nineveh plains in Iraq in order to preserve Christianity in the Middle East after the genocide by Islamic State and persecution by other Islamist terror groups eliminated whole Christian communities in Syria and Iraq.

“Christians in the Middle East will only be safe when they have a protected homeland, a foundation on which to build their shattered society,” Robert Nicholson, president of the Philos Project, told a Sept. 7 gathering of Christian groups in Washington, D.C.

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