Islamists are committing genocide against Assyrians, the only people left who speak Aramaic, the language of Christ.
The last time the West turned a blind eye to the targeted mass murder of Christians in the Middle East, it resulted in the Armenian Holocaust, known today as The Forgotten Holocaust.
In the Armenian Holocaust, Muslims slaughtered between 800,000 and 1.5 million Christians, including Assyrians.
Commencing in 1915, the Islamist program of Christian annihilation was so brutal that the English language contained no word sinister enough to describe its horrors.
Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” to describe the Armenian Holocaust, stating: “It [genocide] happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.”
As in much of the Middle East today, the Armenian Christians suffered apartheid under Sharia Law. They were forced to convert to Islam or pay higher taxes, suffer gross mistreatment and third class status under Islamic government.
Is it time for Western countries to prioritise Assyrians and the permanently persecuted Christian minorities of the Middle East in our refugee programs?
We discuss the question on The Bolt Report.