Muslim persecution of Christians Syria

AL-QAIDA SEIZE CHRISTIAN TOWN IN SYRIA, PROMPTLY SMASH STATUE OF VIRGIN MOTHER IN MAIN SQUARE……..

 

The Aramaic speaking public will soon be forced to confess that ‘Jesus was a Muslim’.

This is as real as it gets folks. This is what awaits the rest of Syrian minorities, bone crushing dhimmitude or death, if the al-Qaida led FSA is successful in reducing the Assad regime. I greatly despise and hate the present regime, but in comparison to these thugs…there’s no contest.

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By Ruth Sherlock, Beirut and Magdy Samaan7:46PM BST 05 Sep 2013

Fighting raged through the picturesque mountain village of Maaloula, near Damascus, on Thursday, as the regime launched a counter-attack against the rebels.

“They entered the main square and smashed a statue of the Virgin Mary,” said one resident of the area, speaking by phone and too frightened to give his name. “They shelled us from the nearby mountain. Two shells hit the St Thecla convent.”

Maaloula, tucked into the honey-coloured cliffs of a mountain range north of Damascus and on a “tentative” list of applicants for Unesco world heritage status, is associated with the earliest days of Christianity.

St Thecla, who is supposedly buried in the convent, was a follower of St Paul who fled to the village in Syria to avoid marriage, having taken an oath of chastity. It is said that the cleft of rock in which the convent is placed opened up to allow her to escape her pursuers.
The inhabitants are mostly Melkite Greek Catholic and Orthodox Christians, but have historically lived peacefully alongside a Sunni Muslim minority. It is one of only three places in the world where Western Aramaic, a dialect of the language spoken by Christ, is still used.

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One Response

  1. There are times when one can take the view that both sides are equally bad, and the best is we do nothing, but let them get on with it.

    In the case of Syria this is not the case. Syria with Assad or any other Allawite leader, will respect the rights of all minorities and people. This is not because of some moral reason – morality is never the issue in politics, but the fact that Allawites have no option but to safeguard everyone, or else they will be toast.

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