By Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post.
Evangelical leader the Rev. Franklin Graham has again raised his voice for the U.S. to recognize the genocide being committed against Christians at the hands of the Islamic State terror group.
“Mass murder, crucifixions, beheadings, enslavement, rape, destruction of churches, theft of lands and wealth, and forcible conversion to Islam — all are horrors that Christians in the Middle East are experiencing,” Graham said in a Facebook statement on Tuesday.
“I join leaders who are urging Secretary of State John Kerry to include Christians in the State Department’s classification of genocide in the Middle East,” he added, noting that President Barack Obama has indicated that he recognizes the persecution of Yazidis at the hands of IS as a genocide, but not Christians.
“ISIS doesn’t want to co-exist with Christians — it wants to eliminate them,” Graham added. “This is genocide against Christians, and their lives do matter.”
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The past year ISIS has cited the Inquisition and Crusades to justify their inhumane murder. By coincidence, last Feb. 2015 at the Nat’l Prayer Breakfast Barack Hussein Obama scolded Christians to ‘get off their high horse’ and reminded us that we have blood on our hands because of the Crusades and Inquisition. Talk about ill advised warped logic. While O’s weird comments angered Christians, it seems ISIS was listening. This week ISIS released more videos, citing the Crusades as justification.