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If ISIS Came to Your Town Would You Convert to Islam?
You might expect a group of teenagers to say they'd stand up to the Islamic State and refuse to convert. But what would you do if push came to shove?
By David Harris

Thu, April 23, 2016

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Depiction of the Souliot women who killed their children and committed suicide before being captured and enslaved by the Ottoman Empire (Image © Ary Scheffer Museum / Wiki Commons)

Depiction of the Souliot women who killed their children and committed suicide before being captured and enslaved by the Ottoman Empire (Image © Ary Scheffer Museum / Wiki Commons)

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So here’s the scenario.

A teacher in Italy taught her class of 13-year olds all about the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). At the end of the project she asked her 25 students what they would do if the Islamic State took over their town. All but two reportedly said they would convert to Islam.

It’s somewhat tragic that a mix of classroom education and possibly some media exposure to ISIS barbarism would suck the bravado out of all the kids, other than two die-hard Catholics. But that’s the effect of the threats and actions of ISIS.

In every generation, there are the brave few who stand up to fight against one evil scourge or another, despite the likely great personal sacrifice.

In the Massacre of Verden in 782, Charlemagne is said to have killed 4,500 captive Saxons who rebelled against forced conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Legend has it that the Souliot women in the village of Zalongo in 1803 in Epirus danced and sang as they killed their own babies before committing suicide rather than facing capture by Ottoman-Albanian ruler Ali Pasha and all that would have followed.

In our own generation, Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, the deceased leader of the Chaldean Catholic church in northern Iraq, said:

“We, Christians of Mesopotamia, are used to religious persecution and pressures by those in power. After Constantine, persecution ended only for Western Christians, whereas in the East, threats continued. Even today we continue to be a church of martyrs.”

But these, likely, are the minority. It’s why they are idolized in popular culture, looked up to for having the gumption to do what most of us could never actually carry out.

Should ISIS come to your town, install a caliphate, impose strict sharia law, implement severe punishments and tell you anyone failing to convert to Islam would be executed, what would you do?

Would you stand up and be counted? Would you put your life on the line to fight the curse that is Islamist extremism? This is already a dilemma facing the brave Yazidi and Christian souls in the Middle East, as you can see in our soon-to-be-released movie Faithkeepers.

There are many ways you can act today to try to prevent the spread of these ideas, to try to help insure martyrs such as Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho are among the last to die for standing up to ISIS.
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It would be a cold and Windy day in Hell, before i side up with ISIS!!!NO WAY JOSE!!!!!

Little Ball of Hate

I would do my best to send as many of them to hell as I could. I may be getting older, but I still have the skills I learned in the military. I think I could get a few of them.

Sons of Liberty Loc: look behind you!

While shouting "Infidel" with every shot I took.

markinny

out come the guns.

77Reaganite Loc: Athens, GA, United States

Hell no I wouldn't side with ISIS I would kill them and join people who are killing them. I'm not giving up my freedom nor am I denouncing Jesus Christ ever.Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour I will not be like his disciples and say no I don't know him.I will stand as a true believer.

samtheyank

I served in the United States Marine Corp. I know how to use a weapon and if circumstances threaten my family, my way of life, my nation and my personal well being, I will take care of business. I will kill these Son Of A Bitches dead in their tracks. I will be more than happy to send them to Allah. All you have to do is look what is happening in Germany, France, Belgium, etc. They rape women, they beat up people with their gangs, they blow up buildings, rob and steal from people and refuse to obey the laws in the country in which they reside. These people are Barbarians and the only thing they understand is force, strength and death. If we don't start seeing these people for what they are, we are going to die by the thousands until we wake up to this very fact. We didn't start this mess. We did not go into their homelands rape and kill their people. This has been forced upon us and we should not hestitate to defend ourselves or feel ashamed as decent, honest and peace loving people. We have the right to live and survive as a free people.

samtheyank

I will do the same. I love The Lord Jesus Christ.

77Reaganite Loc: Athens, GA, United States

I firmly agree sir I'm with you.