The truth hurts, Peter. But while you’re offended, your brothers and sister in the faith are being murdered by some of the same people that the U.S. has long been supporting in the Syrian conflict.
are moderate…think
Granted, the ones we’re already backing are Islamists, so it’s clear we have no idea who is who over there, and supporting the FSA is also supporting violent jihadists, according to actual Syrian Christians who have seen their communities and churches obliterated by the “rebels”
p.s.- Homs, where Mother Agnes lived before she had to flee Syria, no longer has
any Christians at all. There were 60,000-80,000+ before the fighting came to them. They’re all gone now. The churches are destroyed. Syria is a mess, and yes, the USA is supporting it despite those of us who have been paying attention knowing that Christians were being specifically targeted and murdered since the beginning of the so-called “revolution”.
Read this report from March of last year. According to other sources, the last Christian in Homs was murdered last November. He was an 84 year old man who couldn’t leave the city because he had to take care of his disabled son.
The line was crossed when the USA and other Western powers started taking any moron who declared himself and his stupid group of violent psychopaths to be “freedom fighters” as a true representative of the common people of Syria (or Libya, or Egypt, or God knows where else tomorrow). These people are in truth no different than those that U.S. and other forces fought against in Iraq for years, and just like the “Iraqi” resistance, many of them are actually foreigners going into a destabilized situation and using it as a pretext to attempt to reshape the country religiously, so that the old secular regime will be done away with and the country can be the Islamic republic we all know God really wants it to be according to some guy from Saudi Arabia or Qatar or Iran or wherever these jerks are coming from that isn’t Syria.
I’d much rather someone on the internet be offended by the truth than comforted by a lie that “we” (~ our ignorant, dangerous, naive, and gullible “leaders” in Washington) aren’t knee deep in the blood of innocent Syrian people. And not just Christians, either. I remember reading months ago (I think it was even on Zenit, the Catholic news agency) a quote from a Syriac Orthodox bishop in Homs that the rebels we are supporting were fighting under the rallying cry: “Christians to Beirut; Alawites to the coffin”. I don’t know about the status of the Alawites in today’s Syria (though it can’t be good, as that is Assad’s sect), but they’ve sure got the ethno-religious cleansing of Christians thing going at full speed.
But you’re right…pointing all this out is really crossing the line somehow…
