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Middle Eastern Christians who have suffered persecution at the hands of ISIS in recent months have decided not to turn the other cheek. Instead, they have formed a militia regiment and are currently engaged in fighting the Islamists across a major front in North West Syria, in alliance with Kurdish forces.
Over the last decade the Christian population in Iraq has been decimated, dropping from over 1 million in 2003 to less than half of that at the present day. Last June alone, 600,000 Christians were displaced from their traditional homes on the Nineveh plain when ISIS swept through.
A centuries old Christian community in Mosul, Iraq, disappeared that month when ISIS troops ordered Christians in the city to convert to Islam or face death. ISIS fighters painted the Arabic letter N for Nasrani (Arabic for Christian) on property owned by Christians and declared it the property of the Islamic State.
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