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THEY SAY WE ARE INFIDELS

Mindy Belz

On the Run from ISIS with Persecuted Christians in the Middle East

This book puts human faces to the Christians who choose to exercise their faith in the face of extermination. A must-read for readers seeking to gain a firmer grasp on the complex dynamics at play in war-torn Iraq and Syria today.

Sweeping from Syria into Iraq, Islamic State fighters (ISIS) have been brutalizing and annihilating Christians. How? Why? Where did the terrorists come from, and what can be done to stop them? For more than a decade, journalist Mindy Belz has reported on the ground from the Middle East, giving her unparalleled access to the story no one wants to believe. In They Say We Are Infidels, she brings the stark reality of this escalating genocide to light, tracking the stories of real-life Christians who refuse to abandon their faith?even in the face of losing everything, including their lives.

As Reading Lolita in Tehran did for Iran and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families did for Rwanda, They Say We Are Infidels shines light into the Middle East through the stories of everyday heroes and heroines who will not be silenced. A must-read for anyone seeking a firmer grasp on the complex dynamics at play in war-torn Iraq and Syria, They Say We Are Infidels is the eye-opening and revelatory testimony of a journalist who heads into a war zone?and is forever changed by the people she encounters there.

Belz has written for WORLD since 1986, becoming the magazine's international editor in 1994 and its editor in 2004. She has covered the conflict in Iraq and Syria for over a decade. In addition to publication in WORLD, Belz’s reporting has been published overseas, as well as in First Things, FrontPage Magazine, and The Weekly Standard. She has appeared on Fox News and ABC News and is a regular guest on radio talk shows.

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Book Published 2016-04-19 by Tyndale
Book Published 2016-04-19 by Tyndale

Comments

Mindy Belz’s book should be nominated for Book of the Year! The world cannot continue ignoring the genocide and persecution in the Middle East. Read it, then buy copies for all your friends.

What happened to the Jews in Germany in the ‘30s and to the Rwandans in the ‘90s is happening to Christians in Iraq and Syria today while the U.S. does nothing. Again. And again U.S. journalists are ignoring it, the story of our generation. But thank God one journalist has not ignored it. In fact, Mindy Belz has lived through much of it and in They Say We Are Infidels has produced a searing, journalistic tour-de-force. It is a courageous, absolutely fascinating book that tells us how this has happened, and how it is happening now, this minute.Tolle lege.

To be a Christian in Iraq and Syria is to live in mortal danger. Churches are bombed, pastors murdered, children kidnapped. Families whose ancestors survived two thousand years in the region where Christ and his disciples walked now risk elimination by Islamic terrorists. Journalist Mindy Belz has spent more than a decade covering persecuted Christians in the Middle East. They Say We Are Infidels is her brilliantly reported account of what is means to be a follower of Jesus there. It is the harrowing and often inspiring story of men and women of unshakeable faith.

UK: Lion Hudson

This sensitive, informative, and beautifully written book possesses all the immediacy and emotional power of a novel and yet it combines meticulous reporting of real people with an enormous knowledge of the contemporary Middle East. Belz reflects a deep concern for the courageous Christians suffering persecution there and her writing is engaging and wrenchingly intimate. Insightful, lucid, and irenic, this book will do much to dispel the fog of misunderstanding that prevails among so many concerning the extent of suffering there. Her moving and gripping account could not be more urgent and timely. After finishing this book, readers will put this book down and will immediately want to pray for our brothers and sisters in this troubled region of the world. I know I did.