Lebanon: TV channel shows support for Iraqi Christians

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lebanon: TV channel shows support for Iraqi Christians</span><br /> <span class="byline byline-photo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; display: block; height: 62px; margin: -1px -160px 21px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; position: relative;"><img alt="News from Elsewhere..." src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/68386000/jpg/_68386559_blog_paper_internet_radio.jpg" style="-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; float: left; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; position: relative; top: 2px;" /><span class="byline-name" style="display: block; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">News from Elsewhere...</span></span><span class="byline-title" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">N stands for Nasrani, an archaic Arabic word for Christians</span></span></span><br /> <div class="caption full-width" style="clear: both; float: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Screenshot of Dima Sadeq wearing a T-shirt in solidarity with Christians" height="351" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76598000/jpg/_76598554_76598550.jpg" style="-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; position: relative;" width="624" /></span></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="introduction" id="story_continues_1" style="clear: left; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Lebanese TV channel is using the Arabic letter N in its logo, in what appears to be a show of solidarity with Christians in Iraq.</span></div> <div style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dima Sadeq, one of the main anchors on the channel LBCI, has appeared on screen wearing a T-shirt with the letter N - pronounced Noon in Arabic. "From Mosul to Beirut, we are all Noon," Sadeq said just before a recent edition of LBCI's nightly news bulletin, <a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Jul-29/265396-lbci-launches-mosul-solidarity-initiative.ashx#axzz38qphdIVT" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Daily Star newspaper reports</a>. N appears to stand for the old Arabic word Nassarah - a term used in the Koran to describe Christians.</span></div> <div style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since the Iraqi city of Mosul fell into the hands of Islamic State militants in June, houses where Christians live have been marked out with the letter N. Many Christians have fled the city <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28381455" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">after they were told</a> to pay a tax, convert to Islam, or face death. "We are all targets to be pointed at with a finger or a sword because we're different, whether in terms of sex, religion, or colour of our skin," Sadeq said, adding: "We are all targets of murder in this insane era."</span></div> <div style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/140899-lb%D9%86-lbci-changes-logo-in" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Naharnet news website says</a> LCBI was inspired by the Iraqi Muslim journalist Dalia al-Aqidi, who started a campaign to wear cross pendants in solidarity with her Christian countrymen, and Lebanese social media users are using the letter N on their Facebook avatars, The Star says.</span></span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div>

Lebanon: TV channel shows support for Iraqi Christians

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