[slowhandluke]

I'm not sure of the point being made here. Is it that the Alawites are murderous sort-of-muslim Arabs? Is that supposed to be a big deal? I don't see that they are any less murderous than the other muslims contending for the position of top dog. Blaming all deaths in a civil war on the winning side is not an honest argument.

The only thing I get out of this is that we should have an open door immigration policy for Christians from the Middle East, or possibly declare Lebanon to be a Christian country and defend them on that basis.

[Milagros]

The point is, like you said, persecution of Christians, and tha tit is mostly the religion of “peace”itself that murders its own people, and NOT the West, as they claim.