The Christians in Syria

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US said Saddam was a dictator and activated a war on Iraq. As a result, Islamic extremists control Iraq and Iraq Christian suffered severe persecution. They escaped to Syria. Now US says Assad is a dictator and ..... Poor Christians, where will they go this time?

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The price of regime change

  By David Warren, Ottawa Citizen

There are millions of Christians in Syria, who probably have the Russians and Chinese to thank that they may live there a little longer. The Security Council vetoes, a fortnight ago, on a resolution calling upon Syria's dictator to step down, and supporting an Arab-sponsored plan to "end the violence," put paid to any immediate prospect of western intervention.

The outrage expressed by Hillary Clinton, William Hague, and other western foreign ministers, probably concealed a little relief, for the vetoes provided the excuse they needed to avoid the issue, while continuing to posture about "humanitarianism" and "democracy."

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Christians were as common in Syria as in Egypt, before their numbers were immensely swelled by refugees from Iraq - well over a million fleeing up the Euphrates River valley, from anti-Christian persecution by Iraq's Islamists. By now, there could be more than four million Christians within Syria's borders.

 

When the Assad regime falls, it will be open season on them, on the Alawites, and all the other minorities. Granted, Assad is a monster who has earned an ugly fate. But at what expense should we indulge the fleeting satisfaction of deposing him?

　

Read more:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/price+regime+change/6173293/story.html

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Brookings Announces Next Move in Syria: War

After admitting UN peace plan was a ploy, Brookings predictably scraps it and begins promoting expanded military conflict

 

Tony Cartalucci, Contributor
Activist Post

By the US policy think-tank Brookings Institution's own admission, the Kofi Annan six-point peace plan in Syria was merely a ploy to buy time to reorganize NATO's ineffective terr... and provide them the pretext necessary for establishing NATO protected safe havens from which to carry out their terrorism. In fact, Brookings actually stated in a recent report, "Assessing Options for Regime Change" (emphasis added):

 

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/brookings-announces-next-move-i...

 

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German Intelligence: "al-Qaeda" All Over Syria

 

2012-07-25

   By John Rosenthal

 

German intelligence estimates that "around 90" terror attacks that "can be attributed to organizations that are close to al-Qaeda or jihadist groups" were carried out in Syria between the end of December and the beginning of July, as reported by the German daily Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). This was revealed by the German government in a response to a parliamentary question.

 

http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=17300

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Christians 'emptied from Middle East'

 

Rowan Callick

 

October 06, 2012

 

THE mother superior of a 1500-year-old monastery in Syria warned yesterday during a visit to Australia that the uprising against Bashar al-Assad has been hijacked by foreign Islamist mercenaries, with strong support from Western countries.

 

Mother Agnes-Mariam de la Croix was forced to flee to neighbouring Lebanon in June when she was warned of a plot to abduct her, after she revealed that about 80,000 Christians had been "cleared" by rebel forces from their homes in Homs province.

 

She described on the website of the Greek-Melkite Catholic monastery of St James, the church she rebuilt 18 years ago after discovering it in ruins, how Islamist rebels had gathered Christian and Alawi hostages in a building in Khalidiya in Homs. Then they blew it up with dynamite and attributed the act to the regular army.

 

http://m.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/christians-emptied-from-mi...

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Western-Backed Rebels Move Against Syria’s Christian Minority

 

Churches in Homs Under Constant Attack

 

 by Jason Ditz, October 14, 2012

 

Militant factions in rebel-held cities like Homs see Christian communities as easy targets for extortion, and the more Islamist blocs regularly target their churches, damaging many and destroying others.

 

Christians and other minorities have tried to form militias to protect their neighborhoods, but with the rebels awash in Western money and arms, they are simply out-manned and outgunned. As the fight continues to escalate, the groups are facing a tougher and tougher choice about whether to try to stay or to flee abroad.

 

http://news.antiwar.com/2012/10/14/western-backed-rebels-move-again...

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The plight of Syria's Christians: 'We left Homs because they were trying to kill us'

In the civil war, they have tried to stay neutral. But despite this, many are now facing persecution and death

Kim Sengupta

Al-Qaa, Lebanon Friday 02 November 2012

The car may have been the reason why the 23-year-old student was ambushed and taken hostage, along with a female friend, as they were travelling to a shopping complex. The revolutionary fighters with Kalashnikovs who led them away subjected Mr Bedrosian – blindfolded and tied up – to savage beatings and threats of execution before the pair was finally freed in exchange for a ransom.

Or there may have been a different reason for the attack: they were targeted by the Sunni Muslim rebels because they were Christians. Mr Bedrosian did not wait long to find out, leaving – along with his brother – for Lebanon. Others from the Syrian Armenian community followed, abandoning their homes.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-plight-of-s...

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Turkish people oppose Erdogan Syria policy: Analyst

 

Submitted by Tom Sullivan   Oct/13/2012

 

 

A political analyst says the majority of Turkish people are against NATO intervention in the Syria-Turkey conflict and their government’s policies towards the Arab country, Press TV reports.

 

http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/news/turkish-people-oppose-erdogan...

 

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US and Zionist thugs murder people of Syria and claim that Syrian army "killed them"

 

http://russianfreedomforum.lefora.com/2012/12/04/us-and-zionist-thu...

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Rebels threaten to storm 2 Syrian Christian towns

By By BASSEM MROUE | Associated Press – 12/22/2012

 

BEIRUT (AP) — Rebels have threated to storm two predominantly Christian towns in central Syria if residents do not "evict" government troops they say are using the towns as a base to attack nearby areas.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/rebels-threaten-storm-2-syrian-christian-town...

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Syria rebels 'beheaded a Christian and fed him to the dogs' as fears grow over Islamist atrocities

 

 Christian Andrei Arbashe, 38, was kidnapped and beheaded by rebel fighters in northern town of Ras Al-Ayn on the Turkish border

 

 News came as pro-government forces celebrated their victory against rebels near Aleppo Airport

 

 

 

By Nick Fagge

 

PUBLISHED:19:41 EST, 30 December 2012

 

 

Syrian rebels beheaded a Christian man and fed his body to dogs, according to a nun who says the West is ignoring atrocities committed by Islamic extremists.

 

The nun said taxi driver Andrei Arbashe, 38, was kidnapped after his brother was heard complaining that fighters against the ruling regime behaved like bandits.

 

She said his headless corpse was found by the side of the road, surrounded by hungry dogs. He had recently married and was soon to be a father.

 

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255103/Syria-rebels-behead...

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Syrian Rebels Ransack Christian Churches

 

 

NATO-backed thugs desecrate places of worship

 

Paul Joseph Watson

 Infowars.com

 Wednesday, June 27, 2012

 

Shocking images have emerged which show the aftermath of Christian churches ransacked by NATO-backed Syrian rebels, illustrating once again how western powers are supporting Muslim extremists in their bid to achieve regime change in the middle east.

 

 

A photograph provided to us by a Christian woman in Homs, scene of some of the bloodiest clashes of the conflict, shows a member of the Free Syrian Army posing with a looted Catholic cross in one hand and a gun in the other while wearing a priest’s robe.

 

http://www.infowars.com/syrian-rebels-ransack-christian-churches/

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Syrian rebels burn and plunder religious sites – Human Rights Watch.

 

RT.com

23 January, 2013, 19:49

 

Syrian rebels have looted and burned minority religious sites in Northern Syria, US-based Human Rights Watch says. The attacks highlight the increasingly sectarian nature of the conflict as the bloodshed continues unabated.

 

The three incidents took place in November and December of last year in religiously mixed areas.

 

Rebels looted two Christian churches in separate villages in the relatively peaceful western governorate of Latakia, local witnesses told the rights watchdog.