Friday, May 31, 2013

THIS IS HAPPENING NOW! THIS ATROCITY MUST STOP!

Submitted by: Donald Hank

Barack Hussein Obama Financially Supporting a Worldwide Christian Genocide of Women and Children

Members of the Free Syrian Army reportedly attacked the Christian-dominated al-Duvair village in Reef on the outskirts of Homs on Monday, where they massacred its citizens, including women and children, before the Syrian Army loyal to Bashar al Assad intervened on behalf of the Christians.

This reported attack comes shortly after intense fighting in the city of al-Qusseir over the weekend, in which Bashar Al-Assad's forces inflicted heavy casualties on the rebels.

Assad's forces launched an offensive in April in an effort to cut off supply lines to the rebels by taking the city and its surrounding areas from the rebel groups that had been entrenched there since last year. Two weeks ago, the Syrian forces reached the center of the city

While the sources describing Monday's massacre are supportive of Assad, it's possible that it occurred since the rebel groups fighting the Assad regime are composed mainly of members of al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda affiliated groups and have committed war crimes and atrocities in the past.

Jabhat al-Nusra, the branch of al-Qaeda that fought and killed American and allied troops in Iraq, have positioned themselves in Syria and control the rebel movement.

The U.S. and other Western governments that are backing the FSA have acknowledged the presence of jihadists but insist that they're only a small part of the rebel movement. However, al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups have been at the front of the rebel movement since day one of the Syrian war that began two years ago. According to German intelligence, 95 percent of the rebels aren't even Syrian.

Syria Christian Massacre 3
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"Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of," the New York Times reported last month.

In April, Abou Mohamad al-Joulani, the head of al-Nusra, pledged allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahri, the head of al-Qaeda.

Members of the FSA have admitted that their plan is to institute sharia law, and the rebels now have a brigade named the Osama bin Laden Brigade.

Despite the evidence of al-Qaeda connections, the U.S. government continues to support the FSA.

Last week, Sens. Robert Menendez, D.-N.J., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., drafted a bill that, if passed, would directly arm the Syrian rebels with lethal weaponry. The U.S. government has so far only provided non-lethal supplies and humanitarian aid.

On Monday, Sen. John McCain made a surprise visit to Syria where he met with Gen. Salem Idris, the leader of the Supreme Military Council of the FSA. McCain has also called for arming the rebels as well as direct U.S. military intervention in the war.

 

Released from the Vatican:

US-Backed Rebels Committing Christian Genocide In Syria

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 attacking and burning 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-basedGLORIA 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.

 

1 comment:

  1. Comment of Donald Hank: Please don't think Obama is solely responsible for this slaughter of Christians. Actually, Republican Sen. John McCain is even more gung-ho about helping Al Qaeda kill more Christians and overthrow the most Christian friendly leader in the Muslim world--Bashar Al Assad.
    Bush fans will hate this part (and I have sent this kind of reminder to thin-skinned neocons who now see me as Public Enemy No. 1 for telling the truth. After seeing these pics, my heart bleeds cold water for them): Within weeks after we 'won' in Iraq, Christians started leaving Iraq in droves as some were killed and their churches were burned wholesale. Consequently, there are almost no indigenous Assyrian Christians left in that country, a group that had survived 2000 in that region, including 1400 years of coexistence with the Muslim majority. US military policy was the most deadly thing that had ever happened to them. Most now live in Sweden.
    Throughout this exodus, our government said and did nothing except to keep mouthing the mantra of how we had 'liberated' and 'democratized' the Iraqis, who, by the way, absent Christians to pick on, are now awash in a sectarian blood bath between Shiites and Sunnis.
    God help us if our government ever decides to liberate and democratize Americans! Many suspect it has already begun.
    Don Hank

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