Powered by a fundamentalist Wahhabi ideology and a boundless appetite for bloodshed, the Islamic State seeks a return to an imagined pre-modern caliphate that subjugates Shia and treats non-Muslims as second-class citizens. When the Islamic State captures a city, its fighters give Christians the choice of paying a medieval tax known as the jizya, converting to Islam, or being killed.
过去一年中伊斯兰国的崛起掀起了针对少数群体的更多暴力。伊斯兰国信奉原教旨主义的瓦哈比派思想，他们极度嗜血，目标是回归想象中的前现代哈里发帝国，征服什叶派并将非穆斯林打为二等公民。每当伊斯兰国攻占一座城市，就会让基督徒做出选择，要么支付一笔称为“jizya”（人头税）的中世纪税收并皈依伊斯兰教，要么被杀。许多人只能逃之夭夭。