“Assad is protecting Syrias Christians from jihadists.”
We’re supposed to believe that lie?
LOL
Christianity Today:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/july/syria-christians-assad.html
Syria’s Christians Back Assad
“In late May, International Christian Concern, an evangelical ministry to the persecuted church, released to Christianity Today an anonymous open letter ... calls for help from the larger Christian community. It says in part:
• “Christian service has flourished remarkably in Syria. We regard Syria as a model Arab country when it comes to freedom of worship.”
• Radical Muslim groups are “responsible for the disturbance” in the country. “Christians are the first to be persecuted when we talk about governmental change.”
• “We are seeking [Christians’] help to prevent what happened in Iraq and Egypt from happening in Syria. Christian service in Syria is in danger now.”
National Review:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/syrian-civil-war-assad-christians-oppose-efforts-depose-him/
Deposing Assad Could Hurt Syria’s Christians
by NICHOLAS FRANKOVICH
June 23
In Syria, most Christians and other religious minorities, primarily Alawites and Druze, support Assad, certainly according to conventional wisdom. Polling data such as they are indicate that a majority of the total Syrian population, not just religious minorities, backs him in the civil war. “Even the Sunnis” will take Assad over “the extremists,” Antoine Audo, the Chaldean Catholic bishop of Aleppo, told reporters in Geneva last year. He estimated that 80 percent of Syria’s Christians would vote for Assad in an election. Syria’s bishops, both Catholic and Orthodox, are adamant in their defense of the secular regime, which they see as the only practical bulwark against greater chaos or the establishment of a Sunni regime that would be hostile to Christianity.
In a proxy war between a U.S.–Sunni alliance and the Russian–Iranian alliance in Syria, the U.S. would be fighting not only Assad, Putin, and Rouhani but, it would appear, also the Christians remaining in or returning to Aleppo, encouraged by the Syrian government’s recapture of the city last December. What persecuted religious minorities perceive to be their self-interest in the Syrian civil war complicates the argument for deposing or weakening Assad.
“We’re supposed to believe that lie?”
Ok don’t. You can keep believe what Obama claimed about it. Your call.