Posted on 04/13/2016 4:46:26 PM PDT by marshmallow
Damascus, April 12, Interfax - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sees no future for his country and the entire region without the Christian presence, Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), secretary for inter-Christian relations at the Moscow's Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, told reporters after a meeting with al-Assad on Tuesday.
"During the talks today, Bashar al-Assad noted that Syria has traditionally been a multi-faith country, and both its future and the future of the Middle East is inconceivable without the Christian presence," he said.
According to him, al-Assad noted the crucial peacekeeping and humanitarian role of the Russian Orthodox Church in efforts to settle the Middle East crisis, including in providing support for Syrian Christians.
So why aren’t we supporting Assad?
And be on the same side as the Russians? That is crazy talk. :-)
Well, that does it.
0bama will now declare full war on Syria, and issue a Fatwa against Assad.
Because, unlike our strong allies from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, etc., he is not a Sunni. He's Alawite.
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