“Christians are being persecuted in the Middle East under the reign of a particular ISIS ideology,” says Williams, an ideology also adhered to by other adherents to the hard-line salafist trend in Islam. “According to this thinking, Christians do not belong in the Middle East and they are seen to weaken Islam,” he adds, although this repudiates core tenets of mainstream Muslims.

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