Posted on 06/21/2012 3:32:03 PM PDT by bayouranger
Christians are being systematically targeted for genocide in Syria according to Vatican and other sources with contacts on the ground among the besieged Christian community. According to reports by the Vatican's Fides News Agency collected by the Centre for the Study of Interventionism, the US-backed Free Syrian Army rebels and ever more radical spin-off factions are sacking Christian churches, shooting Christians dead in the street, broadcasting ultimatums that all Christians must be cleansed from the rebel-held villages, and even shooting priests.
French Bishop Philip Tournyol Clos, a greek-Catholic Melkite Archimandrite, traveled through Syria and, according to the Holy See's press agency, reported back that Western press was spreading disinformation about the real nature of the uprising in Syria and thereby prolonging and deepening the conflict. Reported Bishop Clos:
In Homs, "opposition forces have occupied two areas, Diwan Al Bustan and Hamidieh, where there are all the churches and bishoprics. The picture for us is utter desolation: the church of Mar Elian is half destroyed and that of Our Lady of Peace is still occupied by the rebels. Christian homes are severely damaged due to the fighting and completely emptied of their inhabitants, who fled without taking anything. The area of Hamidieh is still shelter to armed groups independent of each other, heavily armed and bankrolled by Qatar and Saudi Arabia. All Christians (138,000) have fled to Damascus and Lebanon, while others took refuge in the surrounding countryside. A priest was killed and another was wounded by three bullets."
Mother Agnes Miriam of the Cross, Mother Superior of the Monastery of St. James at Qara in the Diocese of Homs, was interviewed (MP3) on Irish Radio this week where she confirmed that the opposition rebels in Syria were terrorizing Syria's Christian community.
Asked whether it was the Free Syrian Army that was telling Christians to get out, Mother Agnes Miriam answered "yes...it was commander on the ground Abdel Salam Harba who decided that there was to be no more negotiations with Christians." She said that Christians are being targeted because they are refusing to back the rebels and instead prefer to keep out of either side of the conflict. She said that the rebels are specifically targeting government troops in Christian areas and are taking Christians as human shields.
Shockingly, the once Catholic-friendly National Review, which to its credit broke the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung story that the Houla massacre was carried out by the rebels, published a piece by writers affiliated with Daniel Pipes' Middle East Forum and the Israel-based GLORIA Center ridiculing the Catholic Mother Agnes Miriam as an Assad propagandist.
These "journalists" attacked Mother Agnes for asserting that the rebels were carrying out a foreign backed conspiracy to overthrow the Assad government in Syria. Should we wait for these two neo-conservatives to ridicule and attack the Wall Street Journal, which reported this week that:
"...the Central Intelligence Agency and State Department--working with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and other allies--are helping the opposition Free Syrian Army develop logistical routes for moving supplies into Syria and providing communications training.
"U.S. officials also are considering sharing intelligence with the Free Syrian Army, or FSA, to allow the rebels to evade pro-Assad forces..."
As we have seen elsewhere where the US and its NATO allies have intervened to change regimes in the Middle East, Christians are the first to be targeted. Yet many US Christians have swallowed the propaganda that these "democracy promoting" coups and invasions are somehow part of the glorious and positive march of history. They should look more closely, beyond the mainstream propaganda, and inform themselves better. Otherwise the blood will at least partly be on their hands -- a stain that may perhaps mark their eternal souls as well.
No doubt.
“Technically, they are Obama backed rebels.”
‘Just thinking the same thing. hussein and his muzzie friends slaughtering Christians—right up his ally.
Obama has obviously learned nothing. Here we have radical Suni rebels fighting a radical Shia government. What else would you expect? Let them kill each other!
He is not part of a conspiracy for the muslim takeover of the planet ... that's just plain crazy, alright?
The “Arab Spring” histionics of the Obama Administration are ludicrous; and trying to cast themselves as heroes in it is also ludicrous. - Some say this is the “pale” (green) horse of Revelation, and is ISLAM. - I think Obama IS a Muzzie at heart, and seems busy advancing the Muzzies at every possible opportunity - while doing everything in his power to harm Christians in his careless, narcissistic path.
I think Obama IS a Muzzie at heart, and seems busy advancing the Muzzies at every possible opportunity - while doing everything in his power to harm Christians in his careless, narcissistic path.
You nailed it.
Obama has a major chip on his shoulder and it’s very ugly.
By the way, whatever happened to the Arab Spring? There’s kind a news blackout in Libya and Egypt and the northern African states that have been taken over by Muslim fanatics.
Inconvenient for Obama? I guess the news media feel that it’s no big deal that thousands of Christians are being murdered, as long as Obama gets re-elected, so he can murder more of them.
Moral men could easily insist that non-combatants in general and Christians in particular be protected as the price of US help. That they evidently have not objected to attacks on Christian non-combatants speaks volumes.
I agree. Anyone involved in this intervention who is silent as Christians are slaughtered has placed his own soul in jeopardy.
I laughed the first time I heard someone theorize that the West & specifically the US might be the Babylon of Revelations.
Are you laughing now?
As for me?
Monday I found myself posting this:
Hmmm. This would be an irony of Biblical proportions.*sigh*Formerly Christian America becomes Israel's defacto enemy.
Formerly Atheist Russia becomes Israel's defacto savior.
I am extremely angry.
Good.
That means you are paying attention.
Arab Spring is like communism. It's been a catastrophic failure every time it's been tried, but liberals remain confident that the next time will work despite previous isolated failures.
Treason by reason of idiocy. All worthless.
Obama hates Catholic’s and I see the 3rd secret of Fatima being fulfilled before our eyes.
Thanks to our socialist media, not one percent of the American population appreciates the plight of Christians in Egypt and Syria and the perfidy of the Islamists. Where are the evangelicals?
http://missionavalanche.org/files/DudumanHandOfHelp.pdf
Check out this section ...
Why did God name America Mystery Babylon?
“Tell them, because all the nations of the world immigrated to America with their own gods and were not stopped.
Encouraged by the freedom here, the wickedness began to increase. Later on, even though America was established as a
Christian nation, the American people began to follow the strange gods that the immigrants had brought in, and also turned their backs on the God who had built and prospered this country.”
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If some other foreign power, such as Israel, should happen to deliver several cases full of ordnance to the Christians, would they use it, or turn the other cheek?
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