Posted on 04/20/2013 9:27:58 AM PDT by knighthawk
(AINA) -- Syria's Christians fear an Islamist takeover should the current government be overthrown. During the ongoing civil war there has been a well-documented rise in the number of salafi-jihadist groups operating in Syria that pose a direct threat to Syria's Christian community.1 These militant opposition forces espouse an Islamist ideology, which incorporates elements of Wahhabism2 and Salafism3 and whose stated goals and objectives are by definition hostile towards Christians. Firsthand accounts from Syrian Christian refugees in Lebanon reported by award winning investigative journalist Nuri Kino detail the horror in which they described kidnappings, rapes, harassment, theft and other violent reprisals at the hands of Islamist groups.
Those who survived reported "just being Christian is enough to be a target,"4 disproving theories that violence and kidnapping directed towards Syrian Christians is purely incidental or for economic reasons. One individual openly declared "We're not poor. We didn't run from poverty [...] we ran from fear."5
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Ping
AHHH, The religion of peace.
I don’t like the critical tone of this story. After all, this is the side we are supporting for, making military preparations to support, and itching to unleash airstrikes on behalf of.
Just because they are wahabbists who have actually sworn allegiance to al qeida doesn’t mean they don’t deserve close air support./
What a joke this president is.
We should get involved in Syria - only if we demand that Muslims convert, flee or die.
That’s how you make asymmetrical warfare more symmetrical.
Today, in America we are dealing with all of them at the same time.
Where are those Muslim’s who wished so hard it wasn’t a Muslim terrorist that set the bomb in Boston, because poor, poor Muslim’s will be judged by all those bigots.
WELL—look at THAT headline...what do the misjudged pitiful, poor, poor, good Muslims have to say about THAT?
Will they take up banners and flotillas to help the Christians?
Nope, didn’t think so.
Selfish frauds...I don’t think much better of the non-violent Muslims than I do of the ones that terrorize and kill.
The non-violent Muslims help kill with their silence and lack of backbone.
We stand up to our crazy Westboro freaks and such.
It is time for the whiny Muslim victim-hood dance to stop—put up or shut up.
Why they’re just doing what their evil savage subhuman ideology tells them to do.
What are you going do do about this Secretary of State John Effing Kerry?
Not to worry — America to the rescue!
We are righteous, we have had prayer breakfasts in the WH for years.
There. Fixed.
Don't ever, ever give them an opportunity to regroup
Appreciate that.
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