Posted on 06/09/2013 7:56:57 PM PDT by Cronos
Only two of al-Qusayr's Christians remain from an original population of 20,000 residing there prior to the outbreak of events, alongside 40,000 Sunnis. This was before the outbreak of events and the take-over of the city by the opposition a year ago, at which point the majority of Christians fled, fearing instability and the beginnings of Islamic fundamentalist movements that were starting to show signs in al-Qusayr and imposing themselves on Leftist, secularist groups in the opposition.
Thus, when the Syrian Army and Hezbollah fighters entered the city yesterday, there were no Christians left in al-Qusayr aside from Talal Haddad and his uncle, Ajjaj Haddad, along with their secularist Sunni Muslim neighbor, Abdelkarim Zuhouri, who prefered remaining with his only two neighbors to leaving al-Qusayr with the refugees. Talal had been fired upon by armed men from Jabhat al-Nusra a while ago and was shot in the foot in order to terrorize him and force him to flee the city with his family, but the secularly-inclined Talal preferred to remain and defend the family home, with the help of the remaining Leftist members of the opposition.
Its marble floor is now carpeted in rubble and broken glass. Religious icons are defaced, prayer books burnt, the altar smashed.
Of course, that is to expected of Satanists.
Assad protects the Christian minorities, just as Mubarek and Hussein did. They all understood the need to handle the Muslim majority firmly.
You can add the Shah of Iran to your list. There used to be a thriving Jewish community in Iran. And Then 1979 came along.
That is a very interesting video.
Hello Cronos.....
Sad state of affairs everywhere any more....and this is just going to continue even to our nation more and more.
Seems much like the world is heating up at a very rapid rate now...and I don’t for a minute believe it’s not purposeful.
Chilling confession of this guy wanting to fight to take out Assad only to find his group under the Jihadists......but even Assad said the Jihadists had come into the war in a huge way.....and that the first year of fighting.
This is why we cannot send anyone there...ever! As for the Christians...anytime a war breaks out anywhere in the areas they are they must leave...there is no place safe in the M.E. for Christians.
yet these are Christians from the time of Christ. To leave would be to depopulate the heartland of Christendom
Well then...they know what that means in the end don’t they...and so do we.
” I don’t for a minute believe it’s not purposeful.” — You may be very, very right...
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