The story below has recently become a familiar mention.   A Christian family living in Mosul whose neighbors turned on them as ISIL approached.

This frustrated Iraqi Christian family repeats a reality being heard from many families who faced a similar situation.   Their experience is more specific evidence that Islam does not have a moderate strain within it.   At the end of the Western Media talking points there’s a sadly divergent reality.

CNS NEWS – An Iraqi Christian who fled for his life from Mosul says that his Muslim neighbors welcomed the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) and told him “this land belongs to Islam.”

“We left Mosul because ISIS came to the city. The (Sunni) people of Mosul embraced ISIS, and drove the Christians out of the city,” the unnamed Christian refugee, who reportedly fled from Mosul to Lebanon, told Lebanese LBC/LDC TV in a July 30 interview translated by Middle East Media Research Institute.

“When ISIS entered Mosul, the people hailed them and drove out the Christians,” he said in the video interview with a young child sitting on his lap. “Why did they expel just the Christians from Mosul? There are many sects in Mosul. Why just the Christians? ”he asked.  (read more)