This is an account of what’s really happening in Syria, by a nun who lives there. Also been following the Syria news on another site that has a lot of news hounds; Al Qaeda flags are now flying in rebel held areas, and residents in Syria have told of foreign jihadis pouring in to Syria to fight against Assad. It’s a horrible stew.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2917983/posts
Media Coverage of Syrian Violence Partial and Untrue, Says Nun
Irish Times ^ | Patsy McGarry
Posted on Monday, August 13, 2012 11:18:22 AM by marshmallow
A NUN who has been superior at a Syrian monastery for the past 18 years has warned that media coverage of ongoing violence in that country has been “partial and untrue”. It is “a fake”, Mother Agnes Mariam said, which “hides atrocities committed in the name of liberty and democracy”.
Superior of the Melkite Greek Catholic monastery of St James the Mutilated in Qara, in Syria’s diocese of Homs, which is in full communion with Rome, she left Ireland yesterday after a three-day visit during which she met representatives of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Maynooth.
She told The Irish Times she was in Ireland “not to advocate for the (Assad) regime but for the facts”. Most news reports from Syria were “forged, with only one side emphasised”, she said. This also applied to the UN, whose reports were “one-sided and not worthy of that organisation”.
UN observers in Syria had been “moderate with the rebels and covered for them in taking back positions after the withdrawal of heavy equipment, as seen so tragically in Homs”, she said.
When it was put to her this suggested the whole world was out of step except for Syria, Russia and China, she protested: “No, no, there are 20 countries, including some in Latin America” of the same view.
The reason the media was being denied easy access to Syria currently was because in the Libyan conflict journalists placed electronic devices for Nato in rooms used at press conferences in that country, she said. “So Syria didn’t want journalists,” she said.
Christians make up about 10 per cent of Syria’s population, dispersed throughout the country, she said. The Assad regime “does not favour Christians”, she said. “It is a secular regime based on equality for all, even though in the constitution it....
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0813/1224322099930.html
YES...we know, don’t we? And we also know what the UN is good for, and what will happen to the people the sunni militias call the infidel. All that is keeping them alive right now is the refusal of a number of countries to allow a repeat of what happened in Libya.
I have an awful feeling that one day there will be a terrible reckoning. How NATO allowed itself to be used to do the dirty work of this US administration beats me.
I hope this time, no matter how stridently Her Thighness demands it, there will NOT be a no-fly zone over Syria. NATO has been used in the employ of islam often enough already.