The Islamic State’s Dehumanisation Of Christians Is Nothing New – breitbart.com

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Classical historian Tom Holland’s observation that Christians in the Islamic State have gone from persecuted minority to sub-human target group highlights the parallel shift in Europe’s cities.

 

Offering a review of the latest edition of Dabiq, the sleekly-produced recruitment magazine of the murderous Islamic State, author of well-received, easily accessible histories Holland notes the developing contempt with which Christians are viewed.

 

Writing in The Times, he compares the previously preferable plight of Christians under Islamic State — stripped of their possessions and expelled from Islamic State-held territory — with the “horrors” inflicted on the apostate Yazidis, Holland points to the new taxonomy reserved for Christians.

Instead of being recognised as “a people of the book” and therefore entitled to be tolerated in return for an ‘unbelievers’ tax’, the latest edition of the magazine, which has apparently influenced recent terror attacks in Europe, calls Christians “pagan” — a certain death sentence in the Islamic State.

 

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