Christians on the brink of extinction in Syria

Fox News:

Only a handful of mostly sick or elderly Christians remain in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, and Syrian Christians fear the forces that have brought that city’s population of Gospel followers to the brink of extinction could do the same for the entire nation.

An estimated dozen Christian families are still in the northern city, forced under threat of execution to convert, pay an “infidel” tax or go into hiding. Forbidden from leaving, they also face death from attacks directed at ISIS by Damascus, Russia and the U.S.-led Western coalition.

“We are trying to help them escape or stay safe, in hiding,” said Ayman Abdel Nour, executive director of Syrian Christians for Peace. “Their life is horrible. The people of Raqqa are being forced to live like it was 1,400 years ago.”

The plight of Christians in Raqqa is the eye of a storm that threatens to engulf all of the embattled nation whose ties to Christianity are as old as the faith itself. Terror, bombings and systematic persecution designated as genocide by the U.S. has left the close-knit community of Syrian Christians fearing for their future.
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If they were snail darters rather than Christians the Democrats in the administration would move heaven and earth to save them.  They have been reluctant to put the genocide tag on the ISIL operations against this group of Christians and only did so because Congress forced their hand.  Christians have been under assault in the area for decades because of Muslim religious bigotry.  I do not recall ever hearing Obama complaining about Muslim religious bigotry and its victims.