ISIS tells a woman to spit on the cross at gunpoint - what would you do?

Is it a sin if you have no choice?

Would you spit on the cross if a weapon were held to your head? This was the choice offered to one Iraqi woman threatened by ISIS terrorists.

LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) - As more territory is reclaimed from ISIS hands, stories of their atrocities are emerging. Most of the stories are shocking because of their cruelty. Nearly all of them involve physical violence, threats and intimidation, and even killing.

A Christian woman named Zafera was forced to spit on a cross when ISIS came to her town.

In 2014, after ISIS took over her village, soldiers raided her house. They found several  Christian icons including crucifixes. They confronted Zafera with a Crucifix and ordered her to spit on it.

Zafreda protested. ‽It was a sin," she told them. One of the terrorists brandished his weapon, "Don't you see that I have a gun?"

Zafreda said a prayer to herself, "Oh, the Cross! I am weak, I will spit on you. But Lord, I ask you to take revenge for me. I cannot escape from this."

After obeying the ISIS terrorists, Zafreda faced harassment from all around. At one point she was chased by teenagers on a motorcycle who demanded she speak Arabic.

Her husband died shortly afterwards.

Eventually, Zafreda was ordered to move to Mosul, and her home was raided several times. The terrorists came searching for valuables, and they took everything she had. Even when she managed to save a few dollars, stuffing the cash into her bra, the terrorists found that too. She was briefly imprisoned. Most of the women in the prison were divorced, a crime under Sharia law.

On another occasion, the terrorists forced her to agree to convert to Islam. They made her and several other women repeat an oath, then they left her alone.

Presently, Iraqi forces aided by Kurdish and Coalition allies, are preparing to retake western Mosul. The fighting there has been ongoing for three months. As the allies move deeper into ISIS territory, new stories and new reports of horrors will emerge.

The world has an obligation to destroy ISIS and ensure nothing like them ever happens again.

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