Posted on 07/29/2020 7:45:51 PM PDT by Cronos
It all just gets weirder and weirder ... This is bizarre.
Although Syria has a Muslim majority, Assad and the ruling elite are not Muslims. They are Alawites, a syncretic mixture of Islam and Christianity. They are hated by the Muslims. It should not be surprising that Assad would seek to gain favor from his Christian Russian backers by such an action.
Ping.
I still say Assad is one of the sanest rulers in the Middle East. If he were gone, his replacement would be a radical Muslim.
That’s all true, but this is still a really weird development. All of our institutions are full on Globo-Homo/BLM, but Russia and Syria are going to build a Christian shrine in the Middle East. Nobody would have predicted that.
Don't forget that Syria was the first place where the Jewish sect of the Jesus-movement were called "Christians"
It just astounds me that the Democrats (and many Republicans) are supporting the wholesale extinction of Christians from the Middle East and elsewhere...and the task of PRESERVING their culture in the Middle East falls on Russia. Simply embarrassing.
A replica is not the same.
The original was built by the Eastern Roman EMPIRE a thousand years ago. It’s size for its time, its age, its history is what makes it so grand.
A replica is none of these.
*** It is also a symbolic gesture by the Assad regime towards the Syrian Christian community, which it has posed as being a protector of, despite having targeted churches and persecuting Syrian Christians during the civil war. ***
Why would this article quote from The Syrian Network for Human Rights, another Disinformation UK funded terrorist promoting fake NGO?
This NGO has been thoroughly discredited, but it is the go to source for fake news stats by Western media.
But, after the fall of ROME, and the fall of CONSTANTINOPLE, that MOSCOW was now the THIRD ROME.
Obama’s Arab Spring brought death and destruction to Christianity.
Obama’s Arab Spring brought death and destruction to Christianity.
Obama’s Arab Spring brought death and destruction to Christianity.
When then General Sisi of Egypt was ordered to fire on Egyptian citizens he refused. He arrested then President Morsi and jailed large numbers of Muslim Brotherhood leaders.
After the overthrow Egyptians voted for Sisi as President.
He promised to rebuild the Churches that Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood destroyed. He has rebuilt most of the major ones.
Egypt is not hostile toward Christians.
“Obama’s Arab Spring brought death and destruction to Christianity.”
Bump
Assad is a minority leader of a country. So was Saddam Hussien, BTW. In such a situation in the mid-east, one stays in power through coalition building with other minorities, and brutality.
Both Hussein and Assad protected their Christian minorities. Bush and Obama’s regime change chaos left the region’s Christians completely naked and exposed.
Imagine if the Saudi, Obama and McCain’s Sunni-ISIS “freedom fighters” had been able to seize power in Syria?
Lest we forget...it was Hilary and Obama that decided to replace Assad and weaponized ISIS to help them do it...
Obama was supporting the Islamic terrorists against Syria, including ISIS. That’s why he could never acknowledge its existence and he instead kept on calling it “ISIL” and other made up names. Syria was supported by and protected the Christians, whom ISIS and other “moderate” terrorists were seeking to exterminate. Who remembers the video of one of the moderate terrorist leaders being funded by Obama who was eating the heart of one of the people he murdered??
And yet, to this day Obama has not been brought to justice.
True - Obama’s Arab Spring in Egypt and Syria.
however Gulf War one and two were mistakes and destroyed much of Iraqi Christianity.
It is horrifying that the USA has been instrumental in the destruction in these three ancient sites of Christianity
Exactly the “Syrian freedom fighters” - who were mostly non-Syrians had the chant “Christians to the sea, Alawites to the grave”
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