Syrian Christians Murdered - The Rest are Fleeing

Hat tip to Jihad Watch.


With the Assad regime struggling to avoid being overthrown, Syria's Christian have no choice but to leave, not their homes, but their country to avoid being murdered.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/07/syria-christians-flee-from-jihadist-rebels.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/christians-flee-from-radical-rebels-in-syria-a-846180.html

-From Jihad Watch:

"We're too frightened to talk...They sermonized on Fridays in the mosques that it was a sacred duty to drive us away. We were constantly accused of working for the regime. And Christians had to pay bribes to the jihadists repeatedly in order to avoid getting killed."

Thousands of Syrians are fleeing into neighboring Lebanon -- not entirely due to fear of the Assad regime. [Note that this quote is from Spiegel - The Christians never feared the Assad regime] The country's minority Christian population is suffering under attacks waged by rebel troops. In the Beqaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, Christian families are finding temporary refuge, but they are still terrified.

There had been many warnings that the Khouri* family wouldn't talk. "They won't say a word -- they're too scared," predicted the mayor of Qa, a small market town in northeastern Lebanon where the Khouris are staying. "They won't even open their door for journalists," said another person, who had contacted the family on behalf of a non-governmental organization.

Somehow, though, the interview was arranged in the end. Reserved and halting, the women described what happened to their husbands, brothers and nephews back in their hometown of Qusayr in Syria. They were killed by Syrian rebel fighters, the women said -- murdered because they were Christians, people who in the eyes of radical Islamist freedom fighters have no place in the new Syria.

The Khouris' decision to flee Syria last year is partly attributable to the almost daily threats that they, as well as other Christians in town, began receiving. And yet it was also a product of the fact that fighting in the city had simply become unbearable. "The bombs were falling right in the middle of our neighborhood. We can't say who was firing them -- the rebels or the army," a family member says. During a break in the firing on one bitterly cold winter day, the family finally left. "We arranged a car and drove to Lebanon. It's only a 45-minute trip."

Rim's husband also fled with them. His fate was sealed when he drove back to Qusayr on Feb. 9. He had owned a mini-market in his hometown and he wanted to go back and get food to take back to his family in exile. His family only knows what happened to him because of the stories relatives and friends who remained in Qusayr have shared. "He was stopped at a rebel checkpoint near the state-run bakery," says Rim. "The rebels knew he was a Christian. They took him and then threw his dead body in front of the door of his parent's house four or five hours later."

Grandmother Leila makes the sign of the cross again. It wasn't only her son-in-law who got killed. Her brother and two nephews were also killed. "They shot one of my nephews, a pharmacist, in his apartment because he supported the regime," she says...."

As the Left, the Media, and much of the rest of the world basks is satisfaction, Syria is fast becoming a country devoid of a Christian population. The Christians either get blamed for hoping that the Assad's remain in control (The implication follows that they deserve to be attacked for this) or are bizarrely described as fearing the same regime that at least provided some degree of protection from hate-filled Muslims.

The restored Caliphate, though not around the corner, is definitely on the horizon. Those of the Muslim world still have lots of differences to settle among themselves.The Shiite/Sunni schism is still very much alive. The Shiites hold it as an article of faith that a new Caliphate must be staffed by a descendant of the Son-in-law of Mohamed. Sunnis will also have quite a bit on their hands as they seek a Caliph who will be excepted by all. There will be struggles for power as regional groups vie to be the main drivers of the Islamic agenda. The vast reserve and influx of petrodollars will result in battles to see who gets to keep their mitts on the money.

Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria have either fallen or are set to do so. Can the Saud family retain their grip? The Wahhabists were instrumental in putting that family into power and will likely turn on the royal family once they are no longer needed.  The smaller states of Arabia will not last long once they are targeted.  Iraq is not an homogeneous nations and may very well fracture. Jordan will also be on the list for revolution.

Iran, being relatively strong and majority Shiite, will be hard to call when it comes to predicting how it will react to a Sunni Caliphate that rules the bulk of the Islamic world.

The only thing of which we can be sure at this moment is that Christians will continue bearing the brunt of Islamic hatred until they are gone or exterminated. The removal of the Christians will be followed by a campaign, be it economic, diplomatic, military, or all three, against the Jews of Israel.

.....and the rest of the Christian world, with the exception of some Evangelicals, do and say almost nothing about this.