Posted on 08/13/2012 11:18:22 AM PDT by marshmallow
A NUN who has been superior at a Syrian monastery for the past 18 years has warned that media coverage of ongoing violence in that country has been “partial and untrue”. It is “a fake”, Mother Agnes Mariam said, which “hides atrocities committed in the name of liberty and democracy”.
Superior of the Melkite Greek Catholic monastery of St James the Mutilated in Qara, in Syria’s diocese of Homs, which is in full communion with Rome, she left Ireland yesterday after a three-day visit during which she met representatives of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Maynooth.
She told The Irish Times she was in Ireland “not to advocate for the (Assad) regime but for the facts”. Most news reports from Syria were “forged, with only one side emphasised”, she said. This also applied to the UN, whose reports were “one-sided and not worthy of that organisation”.
UN observers in Syria had been “moderate with the rebels and covered for them in taking back positions after the withdrawal of heavy equipment, as seen so tragically in Homs”, she said.
When it was put to her this suggested the whole world was out of step except for Syria, Russia and China, she protested: “No, no, there are 20 countries, including some in Latin America” of the same view.
The reason the media was being denied easy access to Syria currently was because in the Libyan conflict journalists placed electronic devices for Nato in rooms used at press conferences in that country, she said. “So Syria didn’t want journalists,” she said.
Christians make up about 10 per cent of Syria’s population, dispersed throughout the country, she said. The Assad regime “does not favour Christians”, she said. “It is a secular regime based on equality for all, even though in the constitution it....
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“...hides atrocities committed in the name of liberty and democracy”.
Whenever barbarians want to exchange one bloody tyrant for another it’s the habit of the West to pretend that the idiot barbarians want ‘democracy’.
We play around with this notion until it’s time for everyone to stand around in shock and outrage when we see the butcher’s bill and when the barbarians have made NO progress to ‘democracy’ ... (because they never wanted it in the first place).
How gullible the MSM and the western powers are. There are (always will be) OCEANS of blood between people capable of self-government and people who still think that they can bring positive change by wasting one another wholesale!
Brave nun to make this public statement.
Her guardian angel had better call in for backup.
Brave nun to make this public statement.
Her guardian angel had better call in for backup.
BTTT for an article that needs to get read.
All of the Arab Spring is rouse, in the name of democracy. In every instance, the nations have or will lose their sovereignty and become globalist pawns even more oppressed than before.
What is more bewildering than people who live in these places not being able to see that, is the people who have had, at their fingertips, all the resources in the world to see it, but still can’t think critically enough to do so.
“…nations have or will lose their sovereignty and become globalist pawns even more oppressed than before”
I blame the global MSM-which is criminally involved insofar as they refuse to EVER represent the facts just as the facts appear and are given. They CANNOT resist involving THEMSELVES at the level of events rather than maintain their objectivity.
For my money-without ‘journalistic objectivity’ the MSM is no different and certainly no better than any half-wit on any street corner repeating the latest rumor.
Historically, political change and upheaval from the bottom up, is not unique.
• Disaffected masses
• Tyrannical leadership
• Military strong men
This cocktail has been more or less the same over the ages.
In the ME, you can include oil, which makes the whole thing that much more dangerous and intense.
BUT the real deal breaker in terms of positive out come for the indigenous population is the MSM…or rather I should say the MSM lack of professionalism and objectivity.
They want so desperately to be a PART of events that they trip over their own feet trying to ‘report’ on events without giving up their ‘star wannabe’ status. In the end, they are NOT actually reporting and NOT actually ‘stars’. Pathetic.
These guys are absolute whores.
It must be the right position, because Venezuela and Cuba support the mass-murdering Assad regime.
Biography of Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross
The Mother Superior of this monastery
http://www.maryakub.org/Article_Temoignage_Mere_Agnes_en.html
Mother Agnes Mariam has a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. During her adolescence, seeking truth and God, she rebelled against society to join the hippie-movement. She travelled around the world with them. After having lived the Flower Power life she received the calling from God to join the Carmel monastery in Beirut, she was 19 at the time. Today she lives in the monastery of St James the mutilated in Syria, motherhouse of the order that she founded, the order of the Unity of Antioch.
100% correct.
good catch
Problem is that both sides are butchers, but since Al Qaeda flags are now flying over some of the rebel held parts of Syria and foreign muz jihadi fighters have been pouring in to fight on the rebel side, things are about as far from black and white as they could get. It is true that Christians have it better in Syria than most countries in the ME.
Should have pinged you to my comment above. Sometimes there is no “good guy” and no solution.
Syria is not the US, and the Assad dynasty is simultaneously an enemy of the US, and an ally of US enemies Iran and Russia. The big problem is, short of sending US troops (and I’m pretty sure no one here wants that), and probably even with US troops, Syria’s going to be cutting itself up into little meatballs. Syrian Christians should be getting arms from abroad — there are ample numbers of coreligionists living around the world — but probably aren’t, and probably won’t.
Probably Syria cutting itself up into little meatballs will happen no matter what. It’s a horrible situation with no solution and no good ending. Sad for the people who are innocent, and for all neighboring countries.
BTW I drove through Syria (and surrounding areas) as a child, decades ago. I have vivid memories of the Middle east. Would never, ever venture back now of course.
I suspect there may be some risk involved today. :’)
Even then, I remember driving into a small Turkish village near the Syrian border, and people threw stones at my family’s car. Beat a hasty retreat. I was 10.
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