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Loading... They Say We Are Infidels: On the Run from ISIS with Persecuted Christians in the Middle Eastby Mindy Belz
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Content Caution: War violence. One chapter contains multiple accounts of rape & one suicide. Not explicit. Would recommend for mature readership (15+). I gave up on this after reading about a third of it. The title is misleading--the author is not on the run from ISIS or any terrorists in the Middle East. She is a journalist traveling around visiting people in the region. She has attempted to weave these people's stories into what seems like a decade or more of historical research. It doesn't work--I predict that most readers either want a biographical account or a textbook. The facts and figures and wealth of data was overwhelming. Due to the presence of the historical data the stories were a bit lost in the middle. They were told in a disjointed manner and with insufficient detail to really understand the lives of the people involved or to relate to them. The stories jumped around and there were so many of them that it created confusion and chaos in my mind. The book was also very long which made for a daunting prospect. Maybe some more advanced scholars will enjoy it--I'm going to give my tired brain a rest! no reviews | add a review
Now with a new chapter!"Everywhere militants were blowing up Christians, their churches, their shops. They threatened them with kidnapping. They promised to take their children. The message to these 'infidels': You have no place in Iraq. Pay a penalty to stay, leave, or be killed."Sweeping from Syria into Iraq, Islamic State fighters (ISIS) have been brutalizing and annihilating Christians. How? Why? Where did the terrorists come from, and what can be done to stop them? For more than a decade, journalist Mindy Belz has reported on the ground from the Middle East, giving her unparalleled access to the story no one wants to believe. In They Say We Are Infidels, she brings the stark reality of this escalating genocide to light, tracking the stories of real-life Christians who refuse to abandon their faith--even in the face of losing everything, including their lives.As Reading Lolita in Tehrandid for Iran and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Familiesdid for Rwanda, They Say We Are Infidelsshines light into the Middle East through the stories of everyday heroes and heroines who will not be silenced. A must-read for anyone seeking a firmer grasp on the complex dynamics at play in war-torn Iraq and Syria, They Say We Are Infidelsis the eye-opening and revelatory testimony of a journalist who heads into a war zone--and is forever changed by the people she encounters there. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)956.9104History and Geography Asia Middle East The Levant SyriaLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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