Not really the first time, is it? Iraq's christian community was already thinned out by the last 10 years of unrest.We also have, for the first time in centuries, large-scale displacement of Christians. This isn't pressure, discrimination, or anything like this. Monks are being thrown out of their monasteries after 1,000 years of residence, whole communities are being offered conversion, the sword, or Jirza.
Outside Iraq, the explusions of Armenians and other ethnicities in the late ottoman empire comes to mind.
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