Syria’s Civil War is a miserable time for virtually everyone in the country, but members of President Assad’s Alawite minority can hope for a victory for the regime, while Sunnis can hope for a better day if the rebels win.
For Syria’s Christians, there is no silver lining. Suffering like everybody else under the increasingly sectarian civil war, many members of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities are looking at leaving, fearing what is yet to come.
The growing influence of Sunni Islamists in the rebel movement means that a rebel victory would almost certainly see a purge of Christians, Druze and other minorities that would make even Iraq’s exodus pale in comparison.
Christians and other religious minorities have been scrambling to set up local militias, and while they are perceived as “pro-Assad” they are more that way by default, and even if the Assad regime does outlast the rebels, the nation will be forever changed and lingering sectarian tensions mean the Christians and others are going to be under siege for a long, long time.
This is simply yet another example of how Assad is leading a "grass-roots" movement where now even average civilians feel compelled to take up arms and collaborate with Syrian Government Security Forces in order to protect themselves from tyranny which is ochrastrated and backed by forces from outside the nation, and within–'tyranny' which threatens their homeland, families, neighbors, and "way of life"… If there's any such thing as a "Just War", this would be a prime example…
Assad is leading this "freedom" movement in Syria, and winning…
The overwhelming "hearts and minds" of the "Syrian people" are with Assad on this… This is self-evident. The "Syrian people" have spoken….again…
The "proof" of this is in the 'outcomes;–ie. the "facts on the ground" 'reality'.
On the other hand: the "lame-stream" narrative, which is so eloquently demonstrated here in this 'article', has no "reality" based support other than the imaginations of those who perpetuate the non-sense in the first place–many of who are shills, others simply idiots…
I'm confident "freedom" will prevail here… Hopefully it will…
Yes, Bashar is the symbol of grass roots and freedom… how absurd!
Islam doesn't mean a purge of Christians, and your assumption that it does is ignorant.
Syria has sheltered 1,6 million Iraqi refugees, the majority Sunnis, for the last decade. One more example for a working multiethnic and religious state, as long as everyone kept calm. Unfortunately, the Al-Qaeda boys and other radicals brought in from the West are not exactly a peaceful lot. They have a criminal record in Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo, and have now moved on to Libya and Syria. All with generous support and training by the West. So Assad and his supporters are Christians? Well hard luck! The West wants him dead. The fact that even the Vatican is silent proves all the hypocracy and how complicit the Catholic church is on the Imperialist agenda.
Aaaaaaaaawe…poor, poor, lil Christians…they're sooooooooooooooooooooo discriminated.
But, alas! I have an idea. Why not send them to Isreal? Surely, they'll be treated like royalty there.
The rebel rabble showed its colors when it declared that after the Alawites are eliminated, it will be the turn of Christians. Why? Because they are not Muslims! These murderous fanatics don't care for democracy, equality, justice. They just want to pull down the world to the 7th century. Just as it did in Afghanistan, the West will use these Wahabis/Salafists/Islamists/Al Qaida hired hoods until they achieve Western goals. Then they will be tagged "terrorists" which they are now.