Posted on 11/22/2015 11:36:51 PM PST by WilliamIII
The stories told by five top Syrian Christian leaders about the horrors their churches are experiencing at the hands of Islamic extremists are biblical in their brutality.
Bishop Elias Toumeh, representative of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, tells of the funeral he led ten days ago for the headless body of one of his parishioners in Marmarita. Rev. Adeeb Awad, vice moderator of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon, explains how the rebels blew up his church and then pointed the finger at the regime. Bishop Armash Nalbandian, primate of the Armenian Church of Damascus, says he received word on Facebook from a fellow bishop in Aleppo that two congregants were traveling when opposition fighters stopped their bus, made them present their Armenian IDs, and then took them away. The fighters, Nalbandian recounts, returned to the fellow passengers a few hours later with a box, which they said were cakes. Inside were the two Armenian heads.
The bishops’ stories are difficult to independently verify, and the war’s death toll goes far beyond just Christian communities in Syria–more than 130,000 people have been killed since the fighting began, and at least two million others have fled the country. But they are emerging as part of a concerted push by Syrian Christians to get the U.S. to stop its support for rebel groups fighting Syrian president Bashar al Assad. “The US must change its politics and must choose the way of diplomacy and dialogue, not supporting rebels and calling them freedom fighters,†says Nalbandian.
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Why are they fighting anywhere? BECAUSE THEY ARE MUSLIMS AND THAT IS WHAT THEY DO! That, and procreate!
No need for Buckwheat to even answer the phone.
Osamas’ allies are being bombed back to al-ahhh as we speak.
No, in fact, they don’t.
True
Last week from John Kerry: The U.S. is engaged in a "three-pronged strategy," Kerry insisted, to degrade and defeat ISIS as well as "stabilize the region" and then push for a diplomatic solution to push Assad from power.
The next morning in the newspaper: "But in a remarkable break with the administration, Mrs. Clinton declared publicly what White House officials have privately said for months: that the fight in Syria is no longer about ousting President Bashar al-Assad. "We need people to turn against the common enemy of ISIS," she said. In saying so, Mrs. Clinton seemed to align her strategic approach more closely with those of Russia and Iran, who are backing the Assad government, though she criticized both nations in her speech Thursday.
Most of the attacks on non-Moslems, nearly all (with the exception of Lebanon and Israel) are carried out exclusively by Sunnis - whether in London, Paris, Madrid, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, India, Pakistan, the USA, Nigeria, Kenya etc etc.
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