#Thread This piece @rcallimachi @nytimes makes me think of a conversation I had with a Christian from #Raqqa back in Jan2014https://nyti.ms/2KCM7nE
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I was working on the 17points deal made between
#ISIS at the time and representatives of the local Christian community that wanted to stay in the territory held by the jihadis =1 reply 3 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
during the conversation my Christian contact goes "we had a piece of land occupied by the Syrian military since the late 70's... we tried everything, justice, wasta, money etc to take it back in vain =
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when the rebels took over they established themselves at the same spot and we thought that we could take back our land... we were asked huge amounts of money among other things and we didn't succed =
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then came the jihadis... and a family member convinced me to file a complaint at the islamic court... and to my surprise it worked ! decades after the loss we got back our land !"... that's one unexpected exemple among many others of small stories of day to day life
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At the same time 2months earlier I wrote this piece about the take over of the al-Shuhada church and the pics were sent to me by an ISIS fighter involvedhttp://observers.france24.com/fr/20131002-attaque-contre-eglises-syrie-djihadistes-n%E2%80%99ont-pas-accepte-carillons …
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