A 12-year old girl had touched the heart of many after he forgave ISIS thugs who burnt her alive in Mosul, Iraq, after her family was shaken down for not paying the Jaziya — a religious tax.
The Jaziya is paid by non-Muslims in the ISIS stronghold in Mosul, and any refusal to pay will lead to a grisly death of the victim. The current state of Iraq towards Christians make it the second most dangerous place to live in the word, the first being North Korea. Both countries are known to treat Christians as apostates and are often tortured by terrorists or thrown in Jail for even keeping the bible in their houses in North Korea.
According to local media, the terrorist sect was doing house-to-house search when they approached the family and asked her to pay or leave, but when she told the group to wait while her daughter finish at the shower, the thugs lost it, and lit her house.
Human right activist, Jacqueline Isaac, said according to the Express:
The ISIS foreign fighters were at her door and they told her 'you have two choices, you are to leave now or you are to pay the Jaziya'. She said 'I will pay, give me a few seconds my daughter is in the shower'.
They said 'you don't have a few seconds' and they lit the house with a torch from the bathroom the daughter was showering in.
As the flame engulfed the building, the woman tried saving her daughter, but before she could do that, the daughter had suffered a fourth degree burn. According to Isaac;
The daughter had fourth degree burns and the mother took her daughter, scrambling, doing anything to save her. Rushed her to the hospital and her daughter died in her arms. The last thing her daughter said: "Forgive them".
The war on Christians in Iraq had turned the once 2million Christians in the country to 200,000 today.