Posted on 02/05/2017 6:51:37 PM PST by marshmallow
Flemish Father Daniël Maes (78) lives in Syria in the sixth-century-old Mar Yakub monastery in the city of Qara, 90 kilometers north of the capital Damascus. Father Daniel has been a witness to the “civil war” and according to him, Western reports on the conflict in Syria are very misleading. In short: “the Americans and their allies want to completely ruin the country.”
Interviewer: You are very critical of the media coverage on Syria. What is bothering you?
Father Daniel: “The idea that a popular uprising took place against President Assad is completely false. I’ve been in Qara since 2010 and I have seen with my own eyes how agitators from outside Syria organized protests against the government and recruited young people. That was filmed and aired by Al Jazeera to give the impression that a rebellion was taking place. Murders were committed by foreign terrorists, against the Sunni and Christian communities, in an effort to sow religious and ethnic discord among the Syrian people. While in my experience, the Syrian people were actually very united.
Before the war, this was a harmonious country: a secular state in which different religious communities lived side by side peacefully. There was hardly any poverty, education was free, and health care was good. It was only not possible to freely express your political views. But most people did not care about that.”
Interviewer: Mother Agnès-Mariam, of your Mar Yakub (“Saint Jacob”) monastery, is accused of siding with the regime. She has friends at the highest level.
Father Daniel: “Mother Agnès-Mariam helps the population: she has recently opened a soup kitchen in Aleppo, where 25,000 meals are prepared five times a week. Look, it is miraculous that we are still alive. We owe that to the army of Assad’s government and to Vladimir Putin, because he decided to intervene when the rebels threatened to take power.
When thousands of terrorists settled in Qara, we became afraid for our lives. They came from the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, Europe, Turkey, Libya, there were many Chechens. They formed a foreign occupation force, all allied to al-Qaeda and other terrorists. Armed to the teeth by the West and their allies with the intention to act against us, they literally said: “This country belongs to us now.” Often, they were drugged, they fought each other, in the evening they fired randomly. We had to hide in the crypts of the monastery for a long time. When the Syrian army chased them away, everybody was happy: the Syrian citizens because they hate the foreign rebels, and we because peace had returned.”
Interviewer: You say that the Syrian Army protects civilians, yet there are all sorts of reports about war crimes committed by Assad’s forces, such as the bombardments with barrel bombs.
Father Daniel: “Do you not know that the media coverage on Syria is the biggest media lie of our time? They have sold pure nonsense about Assad. It was actually the rebels who plundered and killed. Do you think that the Syrian people are stupid? Do you think those people were forced to cheer for Assad and Putin? It is the Americans who have a hand in all of this, for pipelines and natural resources in this region and to thwart Putin.”
Saudi Arabia and Qatar want to establish a Sunni state in Syria, without religious freedom. Therefore, Assad must go. You know, when the Syrian army was preparing for the battle in Aleppo, Muslim soldiers came to me to be blessed. Between ordinary Muslims and Christians, there is no problem. It is those radical Islamic, Western-backed rebels who want to massacre us. They are all al Qaeda and IS. There are not any moderate fighters anymore.”
Interviewer: You once mentioned Hillary Clinton to be a "devil in holy water," because as Secretary of State she deliberately worsened the conflict.
Father Daniel: “I am happy with Trump. He sees what every normal person understands: That the United States should stop undermining countries which possess natural resources. The Americans’ attempt to impose a unipolar world is the biggest problem. Trump understands that radical Islam is a bigger threat than Russia.
What do I care whether he occasionally takes off his pants? If Trump practices geopolitics the way he has promised to do so, then the future looks bright. Then it will become similar to Putin’s approach. And hopefully then, there will be a solution for Syria, and peace will return.”
Interviewer: You understand that your analysis is controversial and will encounter much criticism?
Father Daniel: “I speak from personal observation. And no one has to believe me, right? But I know one thing: The media can either contribute to the massacre of the Syrian people or help the Syrian people, with their media coverage. Unfortunately, there are too many followers and cowards among journalists.”
Sums up so much, right there. So much.
I don’t doubt it a bit. The FNM is an enemy of civilization.
Bump
He’s not the only source but he is another source
It becomes clearer every day that Hillary, Huma, Jarret, Obama and Kerry had one single-minded goal: to surround Israel with psychopathic Jihadis.
The West created ISIS.
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Not one Democrat will believe this. They think Obama is God, and that he made the universe.
“The West” along with Saudi Arabia and likely others on the Arabian Peninsula.
Video of Christians celebrating Christmas in Allepo after the rebels were pushed out. Odd that I never saw this on any of the mainstream news channels....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYiJF5OCgFQ
Another good video about the fake news of Syria...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddNl-ehRc58
This sounds far more realistic that what we are fed here.
I’ve believed it...Hillary got $ from the Saudis and did their bidding. The media should be ashamed of being enablers of the human tragedy this created. As for Obama I remember him bowing to the Saudi king.
0bama showed obeisance to the House of Saud. He made salaam.
Another good video about the fake news of Syria...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddNl-ehRc58
XLNT article, I’m sending to my liberal friends. I’ve been telling them essentially this message for a couple of years, and their eyebrows raise. Some may be listening, so I persist.
My daughter actually spent a year in Syria about 25 years ago, living in Damascus, which she considered one of the great cities of the world, charming, delightful and urbane, and in Aleppo as well, which was, though not as interesting, at least a reasonable place to stay for a few months, with a real culture and pleasant people.
So I keep telling the libtards that Putin has been right along about Syria, and their eyes sort of glaze over as CNN images dance before their eyes.
God help President Trump get this mess straightened out.
“...your analysis is controversial...’
Oh you bet because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the Arab Spring. Obozo and Hillary set up the disastrous Lybian gun running to IS and now Syrians pay the price
Obama and Clinton made a deal with the Devil. The Saudis and Gulf states wanted Sunni dominance in Syria, agains the Alawite Minority Assad and his Shiite allies. Pipeline access through Syria for their oil and gas was also in play. So they Saudis ramped up their timeless jihadi network for another war, assisted by the the Obama regime. America's globalists also saw a strategic benefit to poking Russia in the eye - a new pipeline to counter Russian energy dominance in Europe, and also a loss of Russia's main naval base in the Mediterranean
As does much of the west with the "refugee crisis". I just see this as a quicker way of them planting Islam in the west.
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