Two million Christians are currently being attacked in a bloody bout of ethnic cleansing in Syria. The Christian minority in the country has existed since the time of Christ 2,000 years ago; they make up only around 10 percent of the population. Christians are being held for ransom and their ancient churches are getting destroyed. Christians have not been unified in their support of Assad as many have taken leading roles in working against his rule.
Perhaps the most disturbing thing about this persecution of Christians in Syria is how the Western press is reporting on the civil war. Mark Field, a Tory Member of Parliament in the U.K., stated: "The unspeakable truth now is that the sizable Christian communities in war-torn Syria are at greater threat of ethnic cleansing from their ancestral homes than has been the case for generations - often at the hand's of the self-styled freedom fighters so feted by the Western press."
These are not local citizens who have been neighbors with the Christians in Syria for a thousand years, but rather what Fields calls "rent-a-mob Jihadists" who do not respect the Syrian Christians as worthy inhabitants of the region strictly because of their faith. In fact, German Intelligence reports that only a paltry 5 percent of the Syrian rebel forces are actually Syrians. The rest is foreign mercenaries. The rebels are being completely controlled from outside of the country and this is not a nationalist Syrian movement. The American people should not blindly support these rebels as they commit genocide against the Christian minority, no matter what the Western governments and media tell them.
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Comments: 8
It just gets worse and worse.
The War for the Moral 'High Ground' wages...and the American People had better wake up.
I also think about the 3 million or so Iraqi Christians, some of whom fled to Syria for safety after 2003.
The Western countries plundered the Islamic world for the last century or so, and then largely went home, leaving local Christians to suffer the consequences. Muslims have some great reasons to be angry. It is just often misdirected against the Christians in their countries who did nothing wrong.
I don't exactly think "Christians represent the West" to Muslims as much as Western governments represent Christianity to many Muslims- and they do a very bad job of it. Christians, of course, would not conquer people.
So I believe the anger is against the Western governments and the world they created. Most people in the Middle East, Muslims or not, have very little allegiance to their governments. These were created by the West, and many of them have caused pain on their subjects. In Syria's case, the government was created by the French in Sept. 1941.
Unfortunately, the local Middle-Eastern Christians are the ones who suffer from all this.
You are of course being sarcastic in saying that?
The problem is that the West backs the rebels who are the ones doing the persecution. In Rableh which is a Christian town was surrounded by rebel forces and no food, no medical supply's could get in and anyone trying to get out was shot at sometimes being killed. That was in August. Thankfully for the Christians in Rableh the Government forces relieved the town.
We don't get to hear about these sort of things because as you rightly say the rebels are being completely controlled from outside of the country and we control the media. Usually we only hear what our Governments want us to hear, we hear how well the rebels are doing and how bad the Government forces are doing. If you ever want to hear the truth of the matter speak as I do to Syrians who have family's that still live there and who go back regularly, they tell a very different story indeed from what we hear from our media.