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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Army Launches Offensive On Historic Christian Town
2013-09-09
[Jpost] Syrian government forces launched an offensive to wrest back control of an historic Christian town north of Damascus on Monday, activists said.

In the past six days, the town of Maaloula has already changed hands three times
In the past six days, the town of Maaloula has already changed hands three times between Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
's forces and rebel groups, some of which are linked to al Qaeda.

Combatants say the intensity of fighting over the town is due to its strategic location near the road leading from Damascus to the central city of Homs.

But fighting in an area with such religious symbolism could increase anxieties among the Christian minority, who have watched sectarian violence between majority Sunni Mohammedans and the Alawite minority overshadow the revolt against Assad's rule.
Posted by:trailing wife

#10  This poor son-of-a-bitch in this thread thinks he's the Big Swinging Dick, getting the US to support AQ in spite of 9/11 etc., when all he's doing is serving to discredit the US and an anti-Assad revolution on the way to his untimely demise.

Hey, Freedom Fighter, got a short history lesson for ya: Jawn Fucking Kerry sold out millions of people a WHOLE LOT FUCKING BETTER THAN YOU to servitude to Putin's predecessors, or to death. What makes you think you're going to end up any different?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-09-09 19:55  

#9  Part of what President Agent Provocateur's job is making as many of the old communist lies true as possible. US Using Al Qaeda.... CHECK!
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-09-09 19:49  

#8  Freedom Fighter

I have read/heard that the US/Saudi use sunni extremists for geo political reasons but when it comes to killing Christians in the middle east I and millions in the UK/US say no!
Posted by: Paul D   2013-09-09 19:11  

#7  Where is your /sarc tag, FreedomFighter?

Oh, you mean you're serious? LOL
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2013-09-09 17:46  

#6  Al Qaeda might be seen as the bad guys

There's something coming up in two days that rather confirms that supposition.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-09-09 17:28  

#5  Assad, the Shiites, Alawites and Christians are in an unholy alliance against Saudi Arabia.

Al Qaeda might be seen as the bad guys, but in this war (like most) they are on our side, and we can count on them to do our work against the Alawite/Christian alliance with brutal efficiency, I've seen these guys in Jordan and they are the best of the best, trained by our best of the best. These guys need our air cover however, without that they don't stand a chance against Assad's forces. Make sure your congressman knows how important this is - we need to ensure a Saudi victory in Syria if we're to destroy Iran.
Posted by: FreedomFighter   2013-09-09 16:53  

#4  Hafez Assad paid got some big name mullah to call Alawites Shiites, back in the 1970's, but their core beliefs, (1) there is no God but Ali, (2) a pantheon of saints that includes Aristotle, Plato and the Virgin Mary, (3) the non-prohibition of alcohol consumption and (4) a belief in reincarnation, suggest that both Shiites and Sunnis on the street are right to consider them to be non-Muslims at best and apostates or pagans at worst. If Alawites are Muslims, then Bahais, Sikhs and Muslims are really Christians, because they all incorporate elements of Christianity, and all of the preceding are really Jews, because they all incorporate elements of Judaism.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2013-09-09 14:15  

#3  Alawites =/= Shia, Thert Untervehr5084.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-09-09 13:46  

#2  Is Sunni Islam more intolerant than Shia Islam?

It depends on the day, Thert Untervehr5084.
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-09-09 11:47  

#1  Is Sunni Islam more intolerant than Shia Islam?
Posted by: Thert Untervehr5084   2013-09-09 11:41  

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