Blame Obama and U.S. evangelicals for the persecution of Iraqi Christians

There's plenty of blame to go around

Iraqi Christians
(Image credit: (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed))

"Convert to Islam, leave, or die."

This is the ultimatum, given by Islamic extremists in Iraq, that has forced thousands of Christians to flee the communities they've inhabited for almost 2,000 years. In the wake of this crisis, some conservative evangelicals here in the United States have been unsurprisingly quick to point the finger at the Obama administration for its lack of urgency:

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Jonathan Merritt

Jonathan Merritt is author of the book Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words are Vanishing — and How We Can Revive Them and a contributing writer for The Atlantic.