ICC Note: The Obama administration has acknowledged the genocide of Christian and other minorities in Iraq and Syria, yet nothing has been done to dissuade the ongoing slaughter. The following article highlights, by country, some of the attacks experienced by Christians in different parts of the Middle East. Perpetrators are not always ISIS or corrupt governments. The persecution of Christians in the Middle East is a systemic problem as they are attacked from every side of society.

10/07/2016 Middle East (CFP): Despite the U.S. government’s acknowledgement that ISIS is committing genocide against Christians in in Iraq and Syria,statistics showed the number of refugees the Obama administration has welcomed since the start of 2015 is far skewed in favor of Muslim refugees: Syria:  5,435 Muslims; 28 Christians; Iraq: 11,086 Muslims; 433 Christians.

As for the mainstream media, they covered if not obsessed over the death of a gorilla six times more than the Muslim slaughter of Christians for their faith.

June’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes, but is not limited to, the following

Egypt:  A Coptic Christian priest was Fr. Raphael Moussa, 46, was shot dead in “a hail of bullets” by an unidentified gunman outside the Church of the Martyr of St George in Sinai. No one claimed responsibility for the attack but Islamic terrorists affiliated with ISIS have targeted Christians in Arish before.  In 2013, another Coptic Christian priest, Mina Cheroubim, was also shot dead as he left his church in Arish.

Syria: Non-ISIS rebel fighters considered “moderate” by establishment counterterror analysts slit the throat of a Christian man in front of his wife. The murderer told her: “Your Jesus did not come to save him from us.”  The murder took place in the ancient Christian town of Maalula, where Jesus’ language Aramaic was still spoken.  According to a resident: “They arrived in our town at dawn and shouted ‘We are from the Al-Nusra Front and have come to make lives miserable for the Crusaders.’”  Separately, a suicide bomber disguised as a priest attempted to enter an event commemorating the genocide of Christian Assyrians, but was stopped by Assyrian forces. The bomber detonated his bomb outside the hall, killing himself and three members of the Christian Assyrian Sutoro security forces and wounding five. It is believed the bomber was targeting Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem of the Syriac Orthodox Church, who led the commemoration event

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