While I am all in support of stopping the perpetrators of crimes against innocents ... all this attention on Daesh ... I cannot help but wonder at the very one-sided presentation of who is being persecuted here, why and how emotional the article is written.  Let us not forget that in the 1950's as a part of containing the influence of the Soviet Union in the Middle East - the USA CIA - with not small assistance from the British ... trained, equipped with arms and gave their blessings to the Saudis spreading their extremist and violent form of Wahhabism throughout the middle east as a way to destabilize it.  Christians, along with other streams of Muslims, Jews and non-believers have been targeted - and since the 1970's the 20% of Christians in the ME have declined to under 5%.  What I want to know is why did the US state department ask the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus whether or not what was happening to Christians in the Middle East past the legal definition of genocide