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The Tolerant Dictator Syria s Christians Side with Assad Out of Fear - SPIEGEL ONLINE
"Support" for Assad is out of fear not out of a belief in the regime or it's president. They might fear the Islamists but not the FSA. What is right for the country is a free sectarian elected government, not trading one authoritarian rule for another.
Christians are only one of several minorities. What is perceived as security for the christian might not be what is best for syria or the majority of syrians. Safety is not freedom. The rule of a minority is not best if the majority are being oppressed.
What is happening in syria is beyond christians, sunni, druze, alwaites or shiites. It is about what is best for the people who call themselves syrians, not the foreign strangers fighting a jihad but the people born and raised in syria or that have family in syria.
"Support" for Assad is out of fear not out of a belief in the regime or it's president. They might fear the Islamists but not the FSA. What is right for the country is a free sectarian elected government, not trading one authoritarian rule for another.
Christians are only one of several minorities. What is perceived as security for the christian might not be what is best for syria or the majority of syrians. Safety is not freedom. The rule of a minority is not best if the majority are being oppressed.
What is happening in syria is beyond christians, sunni, druze, alwaites or shiites. It is about what is best for the people who call themselves syrians, not the foreign strangers fighting a jihad but the people born and raised in syria or that have family in syria.