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2012-07-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-07-24 02:17|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Qaeda + the Syruhn Rebs.

* TOPIX > [Near East/Middle East] CHRISTIANS TO LEAVE WID THE AMERICANS. Year 2014, or ASAP shortly thereafter???

ARTIC = the Catholic + Protestant states of the US-Europe, aka Western Christianity] have shown they care little about what happened to their fellow Christians [mostly Orthodox = Eastern Christianity], or other benign non-Muslims, in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Lebanon, ... + now Syria.

Christianity to become extinct in the very land(s) of its birth, + NOT BECUZ ONE BRANCH COULDN'T HELP THE OTHER???

Advantage/Winner = Radical Islam + OWG Caliphate.

Lest we fergit, ANTI-US GLOBALISTS + ALIGNED = desire the rollback, weakening or destruction of US, Western power + influence. THE WESTERN CHURCH = VATICAN MUST BE CAREFUL THAT WHATEVER "GREAT GAME" OF INTER-FAITH POLITICS + DIPLOAMCY, ETC. IS BEING PLAYED BETWEEN THE WESTERN + EASTERN CHURCHES, THAT THE FAITH IS PRESERVED + EXPOUNDED, NOT DESTROYED JUST FOR THE SAKE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-07-24 03:22|| 2012-07-24 03:22|| Front Page Top

#2 All in keeping with our policy of ~~"We are not a Christian Nation"~~ working with moderate Islamic groups such as the MB. What would the Brave Lions of Islam eat if it were not for Christians and Jews. The games must continue, Gaius wills it!

Posted by Besoeker 2012-07-24 04:12|| 2012-07-24 04:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Umar's Pack states that a Christian cannot have a purdier ass (as in donkey) than muslum. I guess that it applies to a car too.

On the second thought, the man was a state official. An adAss' man as it were, and an uppity Christian to boot. He and his were having very unlucky day.

Posted by twobyfour 2012-07-24 06:14|| 2012-07-24 06:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I see the usual suspects aren't allowing the problem of Assad to distract them from the important things.
Christians and Jews are safest in the US, as long as they stay off college campuses.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2012-07-24 07:25|| 2012-07-24 07:25|| Front Page Top

#5 I recognize that this is wrong and terrible on many levels.

But one point -- is there a Christian today in the Middle East who doesn't understand what his/her relationship is to the Muslim majority? It is a situation similar to what the Jews of these countries had in the 1950s. There's no leaving anything to the imagination.

Some of your neighbors might be fine, peaceful people, but there are just enough murderous thugs in their midst that you really ought to think about moving. There's no Christian Middle East homeland, but you need to find a new place to live, because the places you're in aren't tenable in the face of a Salafist revival.

Posted by Steve White 2012-07-24 07:37|| 2012-07-24 07:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Proof again the abomination that is Islam.

Posted by newc 2012-07-24 09:05|| 2012-07-24 09:05|| Front Page Top

#7 The Christians in Syria are strongly aligned with Assad and the Alawites. It is how they have protected themselves from the Sunnis. If the Sunnis win the Christians will go the way of the Alawites. Tough choosing sides in this one. Steve is right. Somewhere else is a better place to be.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2012-07-24 09:28|| 2012-07-24 09:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Time to fire up the Crusades again?

Posted by JohnQC 2012-07-24 09:52|| 2012-07-24 09:52|| Front Page Top

#9 #7 got it right. In Syria it's the Alawites vs. the Sunni's. And the Christians are aligned with the Alawites - which means they are seen as being on the side of Assad. The events in the news story are terrible, but it's part of the breakdown in order in that country.

Posted by Raider 2012-07-24 10:22|| 2012-07-24 10:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Time to fire up the Crusades again?

Past time. And when the inescapable conclusion is finally reached, maybe this next time we'll finish them for good.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2012-07-24 12:02|| 2012-07-24 12:02|| Front Page Top

#11 The sunnis are FAR more intolerant than the shiites worldwide but Obama is Still pals with the MB and the salifis/wahabbis in Saudi.

God help the dwindling christians in the Middle East.

Posted by Fester Clunter7205 2012-07-24 14:44|| 2012-07-24 14:44|| Front Page Top

#12 But one point -- is there a Christian today in the Middle East who doesn't understand what his/her relationship is to the Muslim majority? It is a situation similar to what the Jews of these countries had in the 1950s. There's no leaving anything to the imagination.

Actually, Alawites (and the Christians helping them) are trying to do what Israel did, frighten the majority Sunni Arab Muslims into leaving via continuous military pressure so that it's tenable for them to continue living in the land of their ancestors without the persecution that is practically guaranteed if a Sunni Arab majority government comes into being. Ideally, these Sunni Arab Muslims would move back to the land of their ancestors, what is now the realm of the al Saud family.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2012-07-24 15:48|| 2012-07-24 15:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Question: If a ME Christian, so called, applies for a visa to the US, does our government consider that person's religion in the application? If not, then we don't know what we're getting when we grant a visa with a path to eventual citizenship. We could end up with a much bigger Dearborn or several other Dearborn type cities where it is no longer safe for infidels. But then, if we do consider religion, I can imagine the current WH regime denying Christians. A similar scenario is described in the book Garden of the Beasts in which German Jews frantically applied for visas but were denied by none other than F.D. Roosevelt who still thought it was possible to "get along" with Der Fuhrer. How would the government go about ascertaining an applicant's true religion? And if the government did so, wouldn't we then be open to charges of bigotry? Is this not a can of worms?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-07-24 16:40|| 2012-07-24 16:40|| Front Page Top

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