Posted on 06/22/2025 1:38:31 PM PDT by DFG
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Surely you know that correlation is NOT causation.
Typo.
Someone ask Senator Ted Cruz how that “wait and see” approach to Ahmad al-Sharaa is working
My church is also in the Greek Orthodox Chuch of Antioch. This hits close to home. Lord have mercy🙏
Yeah. I like how the security guard ran the ba$ta%* over! Then others shot his sorry @$$. Our church has armed guards around it every time we open. Church members who are 2d Amendment nuts (me) take turns. We actually have a few AR’s in a security room it that type of firepower is needed. Members bring theirs on the Sunday they pull guard.
>>>”As President Ahmad al-Sharaa struggles to exert authority across the country, there have been concerns about the presence of sleeper cells of extremist groups in the war-torn country.”<<<
This “president” is an Al-Qaeda/Al Nusra/ISIS terrorist who swapped his robes out for a Brooks Brothers suit and magically became a liberal Jeffersonian democrat (uh huh). Sleeper cells my foot. The bomber was likely one of El Presidente’s merry band of head choppers.
Yes, indeed. Thus, those dictators did some good, at least…a little.
Kinda normal in Syria, no?
ISIS used to operate freely there.
What’s a ”committed Syrian Christian?” That’s not a term I’m familiar with
Assad had a large Copt community and a smaller Christian diaspora community (including a Coptic Catholic Church as part of the Eastern Orthodox in communication with Rome), and even Evangelical churches, that Assad protected. Syria is about 10% Christian from an 85M population. That's a lot of Christians.
"Christians and other religious minorities support a secular dictator in return for protection and access to power. Mubarak was close to the Coptic pope to ensure that the pope’s 8 million followers acquiesced to the dictator’s rule....If Pope Shenouda publicly demanded it, Mubarak would let some Coptic prisoners out of jail and in various ways intervene to keep laws that the pope liked.”
Yes I aware of some of this but not the details you provided. Thank you for these.
You are welcome. It’s a disturbing situation to see Christians persecuted under the Sunni Syrian clusterf—k regime. And Erdogan will pay for it in the long run. He will inherit Sadat’s fate.
AHhhh...
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