{"id":4877,"date":"2014-08-06T12:46:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2014-08-06T12:48:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:48:51","slug":"iraq-from-symbol-of-terror-to-sign-of-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4877","title":{"rendered":"IRAQ: From Symbol of Terror to Sign of Solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aina.org\">Assyrian International News Agency<\/a>, August 8, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Assyrian people in Fairfield [Australia] and across the globe have changed their profile picture on social media to the Arabic letter &#8220;N&#8221; in a show of support for people being persecuted by Islamic State terrorists in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>On July 19, Christians in the city of Mosul and on the surrounding Nineveh Plains were issued with an ultimatum to leave, pay a tax, or face death by the sword. The next day IS fighters drew the Arabic letter &#8220;N&#8221; on all property owned by Assyrian Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Nasrani is the Arabic word for Christian and the letter was being used in a way that harkened back to the Nazis&#8217; use of the Jewish star before World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Within days Assyrian Christians were changing their profile picture and over the course of the week T-shirts proclaiming #WeAreN were being sold. An effort to send aid to those displaced by the conflict also got underway. Twenty-three-year-old Steven Barkho of Cecil Hills was one of the thousands of people [and many more worldwide] who changed his profile picture. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t think it would go viral as quickly as it has,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It isn&#8217;t just Assyrians changing their profile picture, it&#8217;s Christians and other people everywhere. For me it is just a way of saying to ISIS, \u2018If you want to go for these people you have to come for us.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aina.org\/news\/20140805041448.htm\">Read full story<\/a>, and see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aina.org\/news\/20140802155939.htm\">Assyrians Demonstrate Worldwide against ISIS Persecution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/inpictures\/2014\/08\/pictures-iraq-united-vs-islamic--20148375955630852.html\">In Pictures: Iraq United vs Islamic State<\/a> (Al Jazeera). Also note that today (August 6), a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/day.of.prayer.for.iraqi.christians\/39325.htm\">Global Day of Prayer for Iraqi Christians<\/a> has been called.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Assyrian International News Agency, August 8, 2014 Assyrian people in Fairfield [Australia] and across the globe have changed their profile picture on social media to the Arabic letter &#8220;N&#8221; in a show of support for people being persecuted by Islamic State terrorists in northern Iraq. On July 19, Christians in the city of Mosul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4877\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IRAQ: From Symbol of Terror to Sign of Solidarity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4881,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions\/4881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}