It is sad enough that
we in the U.S have chosen to back up Syria when it comes to weapons given to the rebels (
training them since 2012 ) - and the consequences thereof are tragic when considering what has happened.
Washington D.C., is backing Syrian rebels who are systematically executing (murdering) Christians in the streets, in their homes, and in their churches. They are killing priests and nuns, women and children, and all funded with American tax dollars. What have we heard from the mainstream news media in the United States on this issue? Silence
In many respects .....America: Arming tomorrows enemies today. U.S is politically involved for more reasons than trying to help out Syria since the nation has often been a key point of control/commerce in differing ways for decades....and destabilizing things opens up the door for a lot of trouble and access for the U.S in addressing other nations that it sees as enemies. Why the allies of the West seem to be aiding people brings up dynamics of having a war by proxy....
for it can't be overlooked that the U.S is giving aid to the same rebels harming so many. It all seems to be too much of a coincindence---and much of it seeming like an international "shell game" where people hide how things are at times do "bait and switch"
It is true that there has been m
uch social disorder of late ..but what many have not considered is that it is
outsiders (i.e. criminal organizations from other countries ) that are doing much harm toward the Syrian people rather than natives of Syria themselves - seeing how many have noted the biggest beneficiaries of U.S intervention are groups from outside Syria who get to raise chaos (including those who kidnapped the two bishops for ransom ( #
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13 ).
We really have to pray for them, and all our brothers suffering in Syria due to the ways
Ephesians 6:18
18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lords people.
Hebrews 13:3
3 Remember the prisoners as if chained with themthose who are mistreatedsince you yourselves are in the body also.
It's sad to witness in action, as many seem so focused on the weapons aspect/fighting that many forget about the innocents harmed in the process...especially as it concerns the Christians in Syria.
- Syria Militants Massacre Christian Village Population (Graphic Images), from Syria Report,
As said there:
More details of a massacre in Homs late last month have emerged following the global outcry of a massacre in Deir el-Zour yesterday.The massacre, carried out by Free Syrian Army militants reportedly targeted men, women and children in the Christian village of al-Duwayr/Douar close to the city of Homs and the border with Lebanon. The incident received little media attention, having occurred at the same time as thousands of Syrian troops converged on the insurgent-occupied town of al-Qusayr.According to sources, around 350 heavily armed militants entered the village, broke into homes and assembled residents in the main square of the village where they were executed. The final death toll is not known but photos show severe damage to property in the village. Syrian army sources said that they reached the village after the massacre, resulting in clashes with militants.
The events taking place in Syria have been things others warned of ages ago - and sadly, what is happening here is no different than what occurred with the believers in Iraq when they were damaged extensively by the U.S getting involved where it never had any business doing so - regardless of how much the U.S may claim that they got involved to "bring freedom"/democracy...
Specifically, when considering the plight of how the Christians of Iraq suffered immensely as a result of strength being used the WRONG WAY by the U.S in the name of "war against terror", so many have suffered as a result - having to flee when other groups came to power and being isolated. For all the
Iraq Christians/the
Assyrian Christians th
at were wiped out in the process (if aware of the Assyrian Church of the East - more here in #
63 /#
126 ), it's amazing how much in the way of Assyrian Christianity seems to be lost in our times - and sadly, not many in the West are aware of how much actions in the Western world have damaged the Assyrian one.
What happened in the Iraq War is sadly something which seems to be repeating itself in Syria - and all due to how the U.S seems clueless on all the sides which are making a difference.
As I have said before elsewhere, the Salafi Jihadists, who harmed Christians not getting involved in the revolts, are playing a HUGE role in Syria. Numerous videos show massive numbers of Salafi Jihadists executing war crime after war crime and taking to the streets ...and many radical Fundamentalist groups in Syria have been given free reign and have the potential to do A LOT OF damage if empowered. . To destabilize an already somewhat stable neutral friendly regime goes only so far if you don't consider "We replace it with a what?"...and when considering the ways that the Syrian rebels themselves are already harming innocent people, something needs to give.
The US trained and armed Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and that is the modal in which we now judge arming Arabs in certain nations. Thus Syria having a large potential fundamentalist Islamic population (many with tendencies toward RADICAL Islam) needs to be seen as a BIG deal when it comes to giving any form of US heavy weapons or direct military involvement since it is essentially aiding people who have harmed others as well.
İpek Yezdani, writing in the Turkish
Hürriyet Daily News concedes, that Syrian rebels are too fragmented and unruly to really do anything lasting in terms of true revolution. Her article is subtitled, "The opposition militants battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are a fragmented rabble that refuses to follow orders, according to activists." As she said:
There are more than 30 different rebel groups, including the most prominent rebel group, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), fighting in Syria, according to officials from the most prominent Syrian opposition group, the Syrian National Council (SNC).
The Jihadists, Islamists, pro-al-Qaida and secular groups that are not under the control of the FSA and which are fighting in different areas of Syria against the Syrian regime forces prove how fragmented and disorganized the Syrian rebel groups were in Syria.
She reports that an SNC member said mainly Chechens, Libyans and a few
Afghans were fighting on the fronts in Syria. Most of them fight in Syria to be martyrs, (
here )..and to see the full range of groups involved:
There's much at risk with Syria being something we get involved in - and many have noted high suspicions on the ways it may be the case the U.S is arming the wrong side intentionally (#
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13 ,
37 , #
410 and #
415)
...The video presentations/interviews by other Syrian Christians - including those who are refugees in other countries and those a part of the Orthodox Church taking care of them - who've noted the issue for what it is.. it is alarming to see that the fact
that Syrian Christians are being harmed immensely. Syrias Orthodox Christian Church
reports ongoing ethnic cleansing of Christians by al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant groups in the embattled Syrian city of Homs. Moreover, according to
reports by Barnabas Aid, a relief agency assisting Syrian Christians, the forced Christian exodus from Homs has been ongoing since the beginning of February when armed Islamists murdered more than 200 Christians, including entire families with young children.
This is not something new, sadly, as Islamist attacks against Syrias Christian community, including kidnappings and murder, have occurred almost from the onset of the popular uprising against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad in March 2011. Specifically, the murders - which have killed over 100 Christians -
include the hanging of a 28-year-old man, a 40 year-old father of two shot dead, two young men killed while waiting in line at a bakery, and a 37-year-old father with a pregnant wife, his body cut into pieces and thrown in a river.
Additionally, it is unfortunately the case that Syrian Islamist brigades have been getting assistance from outside terror organizations/mercenaries from Iraq and Libya, aid which Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
acknowledged in February when he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that al-Qaeda in Iraq is extending its reach into Syria. For those who are Syrian Christians, the times are very dire indeed...
For other places to review:
The work by Nuri Kino,
award winning Swedish-Assyrian author and investigative journalist, is something that is well-documented in light of how he has met and interviewed nearly one hundred Christian Syrian refugees, giving a 40-page report on the repeated tales of systematic rape/kidnappings and many other things that many often think aren't happening in Syria to Christians...more found in
Between The Barbed Wire . As Giuseppe Nazzaro, the Vicar Apostolic of Aleppo,
said, In this situation the Islamist and terrorist movements are making headway, adding These are bad times for religious minorities. It is a conflict
we should NOT be involved in...
