Posted on 06/30/2018 1:39:14 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Assad’s cleverly crafted narrative has for years gained acceptance from some DC policymakers, religious freedom communities, and Christian activists that my organization, In Defense of Christians, operates among. That is, he portrays himself as the protector of Syria’s Christians and other religious minorities, such as the Druzes, Yezidis, and his own Alawites, to name a few. In the face of the Islamic State scourge and many other Islamist rebels who despise Christians and other minorities, Assad was right. Christians were better off living in government-controlled areas and have stuck by, reluctantly, to his regime. But the narrative has quickly crumbled the last two years as the world has learned about the Syrian government crushing dissent and accepting tens of thousands of Shia mercenaries from places like Pakistan and Afghanistan, along with Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iranian military forces, to fight for his regime.
As the war grinds on into its seventh year and the economy buckles under the conflict’s devastation, Christians are starting to leave Syria for good. Although no official numbers are available, Syrian Christians may now represent less than 3 percent of the population, down from a high of 7 percent eight years ago. Their elimination would be devastating for Christianity in the region. But that is exactly what is happening, and Bashar al-Assad is partly to blame.
The regime has exploited Christians for years. Assad effectively handed the country’s security to Shia militias that in Iraq showed little regard for allowing Christians to return home after the genocide there. Those militias are repeating the same practices in Syria.
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Lebanon used to be the Christian refuge thereabouts (outside of Israel and Cypress and Greece, of course). But, President Reagan had the right idea... but .. alas, it only took one big Muslim terrorist bomb and even the good Gipper quit...
leaving Lebanon to be taken over by the IslamoNazi terrorist gangsters
Maybe its time to eliminate the Muslim terrorist gangs (like Hezballah, which for all intents and purposes has taken over the Lebanese “government”)....Hamas PLO PA and all the rest of Satan’s Muslim murder gangsters... once and for all?
Hezballah has so much of its weapons concentrated in such a small area, the advice I get is ... that the USAF could wipe them out in just about two days
and this will enable the restoration of Lebanon to being a Christian safe place...again
So I guess it’s better for Christians to live under ISIS?
Somehow I doubt that.
Its no so much that Assad was protecting Christians as that he wasn’t targeting them.
Which meant, by comparison, for Christians he was their de facto protector.
The mercenaries recruited to fight against Assad, on the other hand, the Al Nusra, Al Qaeda, and ISIS jihadis, slaughtered Christians in their spare time.
It takes real incompetence to turn Assad into the good guy, but our Obama State Department, allied with the Turks, have done it.
I know of no reason to oppose Assad. None.
Anyone who thinks their protection of Christians and other religious minorities, the longstanding status of Syria and the Assads as Russian/Soviet clients, or the brutal tactics used to keep themselves and those minorities from having their throats slit, are new understands nothing about the region, history, or the decades of politics preceding our time. The Assads are bastards. And they're not even "our" bastards. But they're better than the bastards Obama and McCain have tried to install in power.
IIRC, the Rebels took over the Christian Towns and used them for cover.
ping for later - thanks for posting
They are all, the groups you mentioned, “head choppers” and the friends of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Hillary Clinton and John McCain, plus far too many others.
After 9/11 people in power may have targeted the Al-Qaeda organization and its leaders like Bin Laden but the broader jihadist movement ended up being recruited as mercenaries to overthrow governments in Libya and Syria.
The Uniparty Bush-Clinton types need to answer for this.
Well said.
Yes.
Bottom line. Under Assad, a Christian girl, could drive a car to Latakia beach with her friends. Splash in the water with a bikini on, have a glass of wine as she sat at a beachfront cafe, and enjoy life. She might meet a nice boy and decide to marry him someday.
None of this is possible under the jihadi groups we created and sponsor.
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