Syria’s Christians Risk Eradication

[katsung47]

US created a catastrophe to Christians in Iraq, Now it tries again to do same thing in Syria. All are in the name of “democracy” and “human rights”. It’s disgusting.

Syria’s Christians Risk Eradication

A post-Assad Islamist regime threatens to re-enact the Armenian genocide.

By Philip Jenkins • September 4, 2013

U.S. policy towards Syria is bafflingly inconsistent. If U.S. leaders are so concerned about regimes slaughtering thousands of their own people, did they notice what just happened in Egypt? If they are so exercised over about weapons of mass destruction, are they aware that Israel has two hundred nuclear warheads, with delivery systems? Will American warships in the region be making those other stops on their liberating mission?

Most puzzling of all, though, is why the United States seems so determined to eradicate Christianity in one of its oldest heartlands, at such an agonizingly sensitive historical moment.

Syria has always been a complex place religiously. Although the country has a substantial Sunni Muslim majority, it also has large minority communities—Christians, Alawites, and others—who together make up over a quarter of the population. Those communities have survived very successfully in Syria for centuries, but the present revolution is a threat to their continued existence.

Under its new Sunni rulers, minorities would likely face a fate like that in neighboring Iraq, where the Christian share of population fell from 8 percent in the 1980s to perhaps 1 percent today. In Iraq, though, persecuted believers had a place to which they could escape, namely Syria. Where would Syrian refugees go?

A month ago, that question was moot, as the Assad government was gaining the upper hand over the rebels. At worst, it seemed, the regime could hold on to a rump state in Syria’s west, a refuge for Alawites, Christians, and others. And then came the alleged gas attack, and the overheated U.S. response.

So here is the nightmare. If the U.S., France, and some miscellaneous allies strike at the regime, they could conceivably so weaken it that it would collapse. Out of the ruins would emerge a radically anti-Western regime, which would kill or expel several million Christians and Alawites. This would be a political, religious, and humanitarian catastrophe unparalleled since the Armenian genocide almost exactly a century ago.

Syria?s Christians Risk Eradication | The American Conservative

 

[Katzndogz]

Notice how obama is allowing muslim Syrians refugee status but not the Christians.

 

[Hoffstra]

Notice how obama is allowing muslim Syrians refugee status but not the Christians.

I'd like to see evidence for this.

 

[bianco]

Notice how obama is allowing muslim Syrians refugee status but not the Christians.

Obama is damaging his image immensely with his actions over Syria...and "The Arab Spring" takeovers in Libya and Egypt.

A hymn for the frightened Christians in Syria who await their fate, not knowing what it will be...

Her Majesty's Britain has refused to attack Assad, ...Assad, the only hope Christians in Syria have.

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A gospel song from the Christian women suffragists in America as they fought for the vote/equality...when they were locked up the Occoquan workhouse prison in Virginia being bashed and terrorised;

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9m 42+ sec along [at the end, click on a drag video timer]


then continuing at the beginning of this one;

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All we need know is a Christian President of America who will protect the Christians in Egpyt, Syria etc..

 

[Picaro]

Obama's policies have been to favor jihadists, MB types, and anti-Christian groups his entire Presidency, so it's a given his administration would do nothing to prevent genocides against Christians; he and his Party are far more concerned with protecting genocidal fanatics, and not offending homosexuals and anti-semites. It's important to pander to their Party base. Protecting Christians is a major taboo and would cost the Party votes.

 

[katsung47]

Only 57 Churches Left In Iraq; From 300 In 2003

Christian News, The Christian Post


Iraq had 300 churches and 1.4 million Christians in 2003, but now only 57 churches and about half a million Christians remain with members of the minority fleeing Islamist attacks, according to local reports.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Notice how obama is allowing muslim Syrians refugee status but not the Christians.

I'd like to see evidence for this.

Then you haven't been paying attention.

 

[katsung47]

Not a Single Christian Church Left in Afghanistan, Says State Department


October 10, 2011 By Edwin Mora

In the intervening decade, U.S. taxpayers have spent $440 billion to support Afghanistan's new government and more than 1,700 U.S. military personnel have died serving in that country.

The last public Christian church in Afghanistan was razed in March 2010, according to the State Department's latest International Religious Freedom Report. The report, which was released last month and covers the period of July 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010, also states that “there were no Christian schools in the country.”

Not a Single Christian Church Left in Afghanistan, Says State Department | CNS News

What US invasion has done to Afghan Christians.

 

[katsung47]

Syrian Christians worry about life after Bashar Assad
They fear civil war and revenge attacks if President Bashar Assad falls, an anxiety fed by the sectarian violence seen in Egypt and Iraq.
Ignatius IV, patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, described Syria as an oasis of religious tolerance where Christians can worship freely, build sanctuaries and run schools, activities that are restricted by varying degrees in a number of Middle Eastern countries.

Christian clerics are frequently shown on television taking part in joint prayer services with their Muslim counterparts. The defense minister is a Christian, as are other senior members of the government and security forces.

"Wherever you go, you find Christians and Muslims," said the patriarch, who has a photograph of himself with Assad displayed on his office wall. "There is no distinction."

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[katsung47]

Patriarch al-Rahi: Syria is Closest to Democracy in Arab World, Needs the Reforms Announced by President al-Assad

Mar 04, 2012

He regretted the violence and destruction taking place in Syria, saying that there are destructive plans in world politics and that the people don't want the extremists who are receiving financial, military and political support from certain countries.

"How can the Arab Spring be a spring when people are killed every day? They talk about Iraq and democracy while a million Christians out of one and a half million were forced to leave Iraq… where is democracy in Iraq?" he asked, saying that this so-called spring is closer to a winter of war, destruction and killing.

"What good is democracy if it wants to kill people and throw away stability?" Patriarch al-Rahi wondered.

http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2012/03/04/404155.htm

 

[katsung47]

Raymond Ibrahim: "Christian life in Iraq has been a living hell ever since U.S. forces ousted the late Saddam Hussein in 2003"
In "The Silent Extermination of Iraq's 'Christian Dogs,'" our friend Raymond Ibrahim in FrontPage (via RaymondIbrahim.com), April 19, discusses the rapid deterioration of the situation of Christians in Iraq -- while the world yawns:
Last week an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a fatwa that, among other barbarities, asserts that "it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians." Inciting as the fatwa is, it is also redundant. While last October's Baghdad church attack which killed some sixty Christians is widely known—actually receiving some MSM coverage—the fact is, Christian life in Iraq has been a living hell ever since U.S. forces ousted the late Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Raymond Ibrahim: "Christian life in Iraq has been a living hell ever since U.S. forces ousted the late Saddam Hussein in 2003" - Jihad Watch

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Saying it doesn't make it true except for knee jerk rw's who can't think for themselves. Not saying there are any of those in this thread but I do agree that I'd like to see some proof of these accusations.

Meanwhile, related

 

[katsung47]

Massacred Christians Left In 2 Mass Graves By Armed Syrian Rebels

Syrian/Al-Qaeda rebels funded and armed by Obama did this. That makes Obama guilty of war crimes and mass murder.


The bodies of 30 Christian civilians, including women and children, killed by Islamist militias, have been found in two separate mass graves, in the city of Sadad. The number of Christian civilians confirmed dead in this small town halfway between Homs and Damascus has reached 45. Many are injured and several are missing.

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