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Syrian Christian Leaders Call on U.S. to End Support for Anti-Assad Rebels
Time ^ | Jan 30 2104 | Elisabeth Dias

Posted on 11/22/2015 11:36:51 PM PST by WilliamIII

The stories told by five top Syrian Christian leaders about the horrors their churches are experiencing at the hands of Islamic extremists are biblical in their brutality.

Bishop Elias Toumeh, representative of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, tells of the funeral he led ten days ago for the headless body of one of his parishioners in Marmarita. Rev. Adeeb Awad, vice moderator of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon, explains how the rebels blew up his church and then pointed the finger at the regime. Bishop Armash Nalbandian, primate of the Armenian Church of Damascus, says he received word on Facebook from a fellow bishop in Aleppo that two congregants were traveling when opposition fighters stopped their bus, made them present their Armenian IDs, and then took them away. The fighters, Nalbandian recounts, returned to the fellow passengers a few hours later with a box, which they said were cakes. Inside were the two Armenian heads.

The bishops’ stories are difficult to independently verify, and the war’s death toll goes far beyond just Christian communities in Syria–more than 130,000 people have been killed since the fighting began, and at least two million others have fled the country. But they are emerging as part of a concerted push by Syrian Christians to get the U.S. to stop its support for rebel groups fighting Syrian president Bashar al Assad. “The US must change its politics and must choose the way of diplomacy and dialogue, not supporting rebels and calling them freedom fighters,” says Nalbandian.

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1 posted on 11/22/2015 11:36:51 PM PST by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

When exactly did we declare war on Bashar al Assad and Syria?

Does anyone remember the howls of “illegal war” that the Democrats and the national media hurled at Ronald Reagan for supporting the Contras?

Well they sure aren’t very curious about Obama’s secret war against Bashar al Assad. Or about the legality of his secret war against Gaddafi, or his helping overthrow Mubarak in Egypt.

Obama is a one-man revolutionary launching jihad all over the Middle East. He belongs in jail.


2 posted on 11/23/2015 12:06:22 AM PST by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Pelham
Where are our representatives in this Republic?

This is beyond shameful and treasonous. It is evil.

3 posted on 11/23/2015 12:10:58 AM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Pelham

we have declared war on him since 2011....


4 posted on 11/23/2015 1:12:32 AM PST by Cronos (Obama�s dislike of Assad is not based on Assad�s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Mosl)
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To: Pelham; metmom; markomalley; SunkenCiv; blam; Salvation; NRx; RnMomof7; Gamecock; NKP_Vet; ...
from the article
The stories told by five top Syrian Christian leaders about the horrors their churches are experiencing at the hands of Islamist extremists are biblical in their brutality.

Bishop Armash Nalbandian, primate of the Armenian Church of Damascus, says he received word on Facebook from a fellow bishop in Aleppo that two congregants were traveling when opposition fighters stopped their bus, made them present their Armenian IDs, and then took them away.

The fighters, Nalbandian recounts, returned to the fellow passengers a few hours later with a box, which they said were cakes. Inside were the two Armenian heads.

5 posted on 11/23/2015 1:20:14 AM PST by Cronos (Obama�s dislike of Assad is not based on Assad�s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Mosl)
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To: Cronos

If there is anyone group that Obama really does not give a flying fig about it is Christians of any stripe or denomination.


6 posted on 11/23/2015 1:29:18 AM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Cronos

Assad armed local Alawites as he withdrew his thug army, he purposely did not arm Christians.


7 posted on 11/23/2015 1:40:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Could be, but those Alawites are the only thing keeping the Sunni monsters at bay


8 posted on 11/23/2015 2:08:13 AM PST by Cronos (Obama�s dislike of Assad is not based on Assad�s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Mosl)
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To: Cronos

Those Alawite monsters are the only reason the Sunnis are fighting in the first place.


9 posted on 11/23/2015 2:23:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: WilliamIII

Well, this is going to make Obama REALLY mad when a CHRISTIAN asks him to STOP killing people that aren;’t KILLING Christians!!


10 posted on 11/23/2015 2:28:22 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: WilliamIII

GUILTY: Aiding and Abetting Genocide

11 posted on 11/23/2015 2:50:59 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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Hmmmm.....who should I believe?
The christians in harms way in Syria or our pet Kenyan, muzlim, stoner fool on the hill?

I’ll go with the Syrian Christians.

The fool on the hills competence rating went underwater years ago.


12 posted on 11/23/2015 3:31:23 AM PST by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of a loving God and Virginian because Jesus loves me.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Not really. Assad’s government has quite a few Sunnis as well. And, the real anti-Assad rebels were elbowed out in a few months by the hardline Salafis — look at the “opposition” today — all Salafis


13 posted on 11/23/2015 4:17:26 AM PST by Cronos (Obama�s dislike of Assad is not based on Assad�s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Mosl)
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To: SunkenCiv

Why are the sunni’s fighting in Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan, France, Denmark, Lebanon, Russia and the list goes on and ever on?


14 posted on 11/23/2015 4:47:42 AM PST by Eurotwit (Keep calm and Charlie on!)
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To: WilliamIII
President Obama has never made a mistake in his life. Don't believe me? Just ask him.

For this reason, alone, the US will never abandon it's goal of eliminating Assad, at least not until January 17, 2017.

15 posted on 11/23/2015 5:16:11 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Eagles6; All

Representation? We have no such thing. The sooner we realize that and self govern, the better.


16 posted on 11/23/2015 5:20:41 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Look closely at any evil and most times you'll find the unmistakable handprint of caesar.)
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To: WilliamIII

Don’t bother. As someone who lives in North America between Canada and Mexico, I can tell you the US hates Christians.


17 posted on 11/23/2015 5:28:26 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God)
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To: WilliamIII
The only "right" side in this war is that of the Christians and the Kurds. We are doing nothing to help the former and very little to help the latter.

On the other hand, we are planning on taking 250,000 Muslim "refugees" into the USA to pollute our own country.

Yes, I wrote "pollute".

18 posted on 11/23/2015 7:15:42 AM PST by Gritty (The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates. So screw the candlelight vigil. - Mark Steyn)
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To: SunkenCiv

Those Alawite Monsters protects the Christians in Syria.


19 posted on 11/23/2015 8:17:35 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: WilliamIII

Iraq asked Syria’s Assad to stop aiding ‘jihadists’: Former official - See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-asked-syrias-assad-not-aid-jihadists-former-official-1553468312#sthash.zcQJB7sP.dpuf


20 posted on 11/23/2015 8:27:17 AM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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