This is the Arabic letter Nun (pronounced noon). It became known in the west as the Christians were being driven out of or killed in Mosul in northern Iraq over the past several years: the ISIS aggressors would put this sign on the homes and businesses of Christians to indicate that if they remained, they would be killed.
Nun is the first letter in the name “Nazarene,” which is what some Muslims in that region call Christians. It is a pejorative term, a word of contempt. Think of it as the Arabic equivalent of the N-word.
After three years of persecution, on Christmas day 2017 the Iraqi Christians publicly celebrated Christmas in a Mosul church for the first time since ISIS was driven out.
Read more at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/christians-mosul-christianity-is-defeat-saint-pauls-a8127591.html
With prayers for Mosul.
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