Donald Trump will provide hope for Christianity against ISIS in the Middle East, Dr Isaac claims
DONALD
Trump will save Christianity from the clutches of Islamic State in the Middle
East, the chief of a leading charity has claimed.
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By
Katie Mansfield, Sat, Dec 17, 2016
hristians
in Syria and Iraq who have been persecuted by the brutal jihadis have reason
for hope when Donald Trump takes office in January, according to Dr Yvette
Isaac.
Dr
Isaac, the general director of non-profit Roads of Success says Mr Trump’s
tough stance against ISIS will stop the jihadis in their tracks as they
continue attempts to wipe out Christianity from its birthplace in the Middle
East.
Before
2011, Syrian Christians numbered about eight per cent of the population of
22million. Today about half are believed to have left the country.
Speaking
exclusively to Express.co.uk, Dr Isaac, said the Obama administration has stood
by as ISIS goes on the rampage in Iraq, Syria and Egypt.
Dr
Isaac said: “They have allowed this to happen by being silent.
“Donald
Trump will be very positive for Christians in the Middle East. I really think
he will be positive for Christians in Syria and Iraq.
“He
recognises the threat from ISIS, he knows it can come to anywhere in the world
and if you give it a chance, it will come into every home.”
Throughout
the election campaign, the President-elect vowed to defeat the terrorist and
said ISIS would disappear "very, very quickly" under his
administration.
Mr
Trump said: "I won't tell them where and I won't tell them how. We must as
a nation be more unpredictable.
“Containing
the spread of radical Islam must be a major foreign policy goal of the United
States and indeed the world.”
Hundreds
of thousands of Christians have fled the Middle East in recent years.
In
Ninevah Plains, Iraq more than 100,000 Christians have been forced out of their
homes since ISIS occupied the region.
The
Christian population of Iraq has been decimated from two million in 2003 to
just 180,000 today.
But
Dr Isaac says Christianity will remain in the Holy Land as some of the oldest
Christian communities in the world vow to stay in their homes.
Dr
Isaac said: “The biggest threat to Christians in Syria is ISIS and all of those
terror groups. They call themselves different names and they make the world
think they are different groups but it is all one big family.
“They
have different names but the same vision and the same mission and this is going
on all over the Middle East.
“The
blood is their satisfaction.
“The
Christians don’t want to leave. Their faith and their love of their country,
they don’t want to leave and lose their roots.
“They
don’t want the church to leave Syria and that is what ISIS are trying to do.
“They
are trying to get the church out of the Middle East and it will become the darkest
place in the world.”
Earlier
this year experts warned Christianity could be wiped out in parts of the Middle
East within months if ISIS was allowed to continue.
In
April, MPs ruled that ISIS’s treatment of Yazidis and Christians amounted to
genocide.
Dr
Isaac added: “I think after the new administration, the world will come
together. America, Europe and Asia to address this. The community will unite
and say enough is enough.
“I
don’t think Christianity will ever leave the Middle East but it depends on us.
“Donald
Trump is humble enough to listen to others and I have great hope that the
cabinet and his advisors will also listen.
“I
think they can give Christians hope.”
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