A British vicar based in Baghdad said Islamic State
militants hounded Christians out of their homes and threatened to kill their
children if they did not convert to Islam.
A British vicar based in Baghdad said Islamic State
militants hounded Christians out of their homes and threatened to kill their
children if they did not convert to Islam
GettyIslamic State militantsBarbaric: The children were
killed by Islamic State militants (file photo)
Barbaric Islamic State militants have beheaded four
Christian children in Iraq for refusing to convert to Islam, according to a
British vicar based in Baghdad.
Cannon Andrew White claims the beheadings took place in a
Christian enclave close to Baghdad which has been recently overrun by Islamic
State.
Cannon White, who has been ordered by the Archbishop of
Canterbury to leave Iraq for his own safety, is one of only a handful of
Christian leaders in the country.
He said: “Things were bad in Baghdad, there were bombs and
shootings and our people were being killed, so many of our people fled back to
Nineveh, their traditional home.
“It was safer, but then one day, ISIS – Islamic State. They
came in and they hounded all of them out. They killed huge numbers, they
chopped their children in half, they chopped their heads off, and they moved
north and it was so terrible what happened.”
Islamic State forced Christians to convert to Islam on pain
of death, he said. “They came to one of our people the other day, one of the
Christians.
“They said to one man, an adult, ‘Either you say the words
of conversion to Islam or we kill all your children’.
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