Posted on 03/15/2025 6:42:50 PM PDT by imardmd1
Something doesn’t smell right about this story.
>> No evidence of Christians being targeted
yeah, sure — Islam would never do such a thing
“yeah, sure — Islam would never do such a thing”
The ‘never do hate and death’ thing only occurs every Feb 30th.
Read this through. In fact, though thousands of religio-political resisters were killed, only four of them were Christians; of which one was by a stray bullet, no intent involved.
It smells very fishy.
>> Read this through.
it’ll take much more than one article adequately contradict what’s been reported for very many weeks
that said, it would be preferable the slaughter was not an actuality
Only 4 were killed. To quote JD Vance, “Do you listen to yourself?”
While the Alawites may be their targets, I do not believe only 4 Christian’s have been killed. This is basically AQ who are out there slaughtering. And AQ will target a Christian equally.
The Trump administration is awake, so I trust their judgment. If they are prioritizing strikes on the Houthis over efforts to stop the crisis in Syria, that tells me something about what they know. Time will tell.
In his homily on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, March 9, His Beatitude appealed to the president of Syria to "put an immediate end to these massacres. Stop them at once and restore a sense of security and stability for all Syrians, regardless of their affiliations."
On my blog this weekend I note among other things that the “Friends of Lindsay Graham” are now in power in Syria with Turkish backing.
So a lot riding on this story IMHO.
Graham and the late John McCain pushed the jihadists as the alternative to Bashar al-Assad among others.
My contacts in the Syrio-Lebanese Orthodox Christian community often said that while Assad had many bad traits there was a peaceful coexistence—sometimes even friendship and camaraderie—between Christians and Muslims.
Now that is deep into the past.
Assad was the ideal “bad guy” in a Muslim country. A secular strong man who respects the rights of minorities.
Bull.
Amen.
And likewise the Shah of Iran.
yeah, sure — Islam would never do such a thing
2025 (February 28 to March 29)
I am not exactly sure what could be done in Syria. There are so many different groups, and almost any of them will fight (have fought) almost anyone else depending on the circumstance... I suppose we could bomb anything more dangerous looking than a vegetable cart, and I still suspect they’d be fighting.
Go in on the ground and establish, essentially a military police presence? Are you (not you specifically!) kidding me?
Sure, like Christians are going to retaliate by flying planes into building, suicide bombings, car ramming terror attacks, and beheadings.
This is typical leftist boogeyman garage to try to vilify Christians, all the while ignoring the real danger from islamists in our midst. They deliberately conflate the two and try to portray them as what they actually are opposite of.
One is *Turn the other cheek and love your enemies* and the other is *Allahu Akbar*
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