According to our information, there are no Iraqi Christians under the control of ISIL, although we hear in the media that there is a price for Christian women. We have one account of only three people who are elderly. One of them was visited at the hospital. He couldn't leave the city and he converted to Islam by power, and the others are two very old ladies. The information we have is that there are only three people.
Apparently ISIL did receive instructions. The way they treated the Yezidis was quite different from the way they treated Christians. Apparently the instructions were to just take the Christians out of their towns, their villages, their cities, their houses, confiscate everything—even heart medication was confiscated from an elderly person—and kick them out. The instructions with regard to the Yezidis were, no, torture them; kill them savagely.
They were asked the reason for this differentiation. The answer was that in the Koran, the book they believe was dictated by God to Muhammad, Christians are described as “The people of the Book”, and there is a verse in there that says to treat them well: “Aaamiloo houm husna”. So they are literally going by the Koran. The Yezidis are, for them, blasphemers; they don't believe in God.
So according to our information, there are no Christians under the control of ISIL.
Thank you.