#WeAreN: Thousands Unite in Support of the Persecuted Christians in Iraq Using Twitter

Carey Lodge : Aug 9, 2014
Christian Today

"Open your mouth for the speechless, In the cause of all who are appointed to die." -Prov.31:8

Christian Today reports: Thousands of people have joined together on Twitter to express solidarity with persecuted Christians in Iraq, using the #WeAreN. (Graphic via BBC)

'N', or ن in Arabic, is the symbol used by the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) to identify who is a Nazarene - a Christian. It has been drawn on doorways and in front of houses in captured Iraqi cities, allowing militants to quickly assert where the loyalties of the inhabitants lie.

Last week, members of the extremist Sunni Muslim faction drove Christians out of the historic city of Mosul, where members of the faith have lived for the past 2,000 years. They were told to either flee the city, convert to Islam, or pay a tax for the right to be a Christian. Those who refused now risk death "by the sword"...