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Christians currently living in the Syrian town of Qaryatian -- captured by the Islamic State terrorists last month -- have been given a set of 11 commandments by the Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as part of a "safety contract" offered by the Sunni group.

Earlier this week, Isis had given an ultimatum to the Christian population living in the Syrian city of Qaryatain to either pay exorbitant taxes, convert to Islam or leave their homes.

According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Isis now has brought additional demands on Syrian Christians, who decided to stay back in their homeland and pay the jizyah or jizya tax imposed on non-Muslims (Dhimmis).

Isis fighters recently listed out 11 commandments that all Christians who decided to stay back in Qaryatian must follow.

As per the terms of the so-called "safety contract", all Christians in Qaryatian must abide by the "covenant" and if they keep their word, Baghdadi will ensure that they will not have to give up "their money" nor will they be forced to change their religion. The Isis leader will also ensure that they are not harmed.

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As per the rules listed by the orders of Isis leader Baghdadi, Christians have been forbidden from having a church and they aren't allowed to even put up a cross.

"Our entire ancestral homelands have been completely taken and now they won't even allow us to sustain our religious faith in one God and his son Jesus Christ, " Nahren Anweya, an Assyrian-American activist told IBTimes India.

"We have been purged out Mosul, Nineveh, Khabour, Hassaka, Qaryatian and many more ancestral Assyrian homelands. They took our native homelands, our girls, our churches and now they want the few lives we have left."

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Here are the 11 commandments: