National Geographic on how Assyrians “weigh taking up arms against the Islamic State”. While “Iraqs Assyrian Christians pride themselves on having persisted in their traditional homeland for millennia, even as other civilizations thrived then disappeared” and have since 2003 “been viewed by other Iraqis as a passive victim of the countrys many conflicts, not an active aggressor, their role is now shifting. We keep talking about Jesus and peace, and now weve reached the point where its not enough. [] We didnt want to reach this point—we just want to live in our areas. says Henry Sarkis. “This time, he [Duraid Tobiya] said, he had no faith in either the Iraqi Army or the Kurdish Peshmerga to protect Christians and other minorities, such as the Yazidis and Turkomans, against a much more dangerous foe, because both forces initially abrogated their duties.”
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