Posted on 08/03/2012 8:30:30 AM PDT by Perseverando
... "We saw what happened to the Christians in Iraq," Abu George, a Christian resident of Aleppo's Aziza district told GlobalPost. "What is going on in Aleppo is not a popular revolution for democracy and freedom. The fighters of the so-called Free Syrian Army are radical Sunnis who want to establish an Islamic state."... (more here)
I have warned repeatedly of the genocide of Christians should Syria fall to the jihadists, which increasingly appears to be the inevtiable outcome, particularly since Obama is secretly supporting the jihadists:
"Aleppo's Christians Arm Against Islamists" AINA August 3, 2012
ALEPPO, Syria and BEIRUT, Lebanon -- As evidence mounts that foreign Islamists are fighting alongside Syria's increasingly radicalized rebels, Christians in Aleppo and elsewhere are taking up arms, often supplied by the regime.
"We saw what happened to the Christians in Iraq," Abu George, a Christian resident of Aleppo's Aziza district told GlobalPost. "What is going on in Aleppo is not a popular revolution for democracy and freedom. The fighters of the so-called Free Syrian Army are radical Sunnis who want to establish an Islamic state."
While the 30-year-old shopkeeper said he had not received any direct threats from Syria's Sunni Muslim rebels, he fears a repeat of Iraq's sectarian bloodletting.
Since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, the UN Human Rights Council estimates around half of Iraq's 1.4 million Christians have fled the country, driven out by nearly a decade of church bombings, kidnappings and sectarian murder.
The plight of Christians in Iraq has long worried Syria's estimated two million Christians, around 10 percent of the population. The nightmare of similar persecution has led them to support the secular regime of President Bashar al-Assad, which presents itself as a defender of minorities.
With Syria now gripped by civil war and the Assad regime fighting for its survival, however, Christians like Abu George fear retribution, already occuring in some parts of the country, from the Sunni-led rebels they refused to back.
In Qseir, a town of some 60,000 people southwest of Homs, which has been under siege by regime forces for at least seven months, mosques recently rang out with the call for all Christians, who numbered around 10,000, to leave.
The breakdown of inter-communal relations in Qseir stems from both rising fundamentalism among Sunni fighters and the widespread belief that Christians had been collaborating with the Assad regime.
And the Sharia that mandates the subjugation, oppression and slaughter of non-believers.
Just 10 miles from the border with Lebanon, Qseir Sunni fighters are increasingly radicalized. Some openly identify themselves as mujahadeen fighting for an Islamic Caliphate rather than simply the overthrow of the Assad dictatorship.
"We fight to raise the word of God," said Abu Salem, a 29-year-old Syrian from Qseir, recuperating recently in the no-man's-land border between Lebanon's northern Bekaa Valley and Syria.
As shells exploded less than a mile away, the former cement mixer showed photos on his mobile phone of Osama Bin Laden and the latest videos from Al Nusra Front, the little known jihadi group that has claimed responsibility for many of the biggest bombings to hit Damascus since January.
"After the regime is toppled this will be the first stone in building the Islamic Caliphate and Syria must adopt Islamic law," he said.
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Abu Ali, a military intelligence officer who defected to the rebels and was first profiled by GlobalPost last November, and then again in a video published in March, now leads Qseir's Wadi Brigade, one of the town's largest and strongest rebel groups.
Interviewed regularly over Skype over the last six months, Abu Ali has expressed increasingly fundamentalist and intolerant views. He once called for foreign military assistance. But now he says that if international forces join the fight against Assad, "they would be the ones we target, even before the regime."
Injured by shrapnel at least twice since joining the fight in Qseir last December, Abu Ali has grown a thick beard. Increasingly conservative, he criticized a Muslim reporter for smoking during a Skype call, citing the current period as a time of "holy war."
Abu Ali said he supported the call for Christians to leave Qseir, accusing them of collaborating with the regime.
In interviews with more than a dozen Qseir residents, a Wall Street Journal reporter recently discovered a vicious cycle of murder and kidnap between Sunni and Christian families, triggered by claims that Christians were acting as regime spies. Almost all Qseir's Christians have now fled, with many taking shelter in makeshift tents in the northern Bekaa valley.
"I used to work as a legal consultant, but now I live like a beggar here in Lebanon," said a woman who gave her name as Marta and who said her husband had been kidnapped. She said her home in Qseir had been taken over by rebels and destroyed.
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Last week, a Dutch and a British photographer in northern Syria were released from captivity at what they said was a training camp for between 30 and 100 foreign jihadis, who repeatedly threatened to kill them.
"They were only foreign jihadis; I don't think there was one Syrian among them," Dutch photographer Jeroen Oerlemans told the New York Times. "All day we were spoken to about the Quran and how they would bring sharia law to Syria. I don't think they were Al Qaeda, they seemed too amateurish for that. They said, 'We're not Al Qaeda, but Al Qaeda is down the road.'"
Read it all.
I'm pretty sure Romney as president wouldn't secretly support a takeover of the middle east by Islamic radicals.
Obama HAS to go.
And of course, Hillary and Barry are arming the Islamists in Syria, just as Billy Jeff fought on the side of the Albanian Muslims who illegally squatted on Serbian land and took it over. The U.S. would not allow Serbia to fight to keep its territory, and the rest is the Clinton’s rancid history.
Kosavo is a stench in God’s nostrils. Bill and Hillary are anti-Christian to the core.
The “Arab Spring” is anything but.
Funny we can support uprisings that have a strong fundamentalist element, but couldn’t find the courage to support the uprisings in Iran.
Thanks for posting that. Very relevant!
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