Syrian President Basher Assad isn't the only target of Syrian rebels as Syria's Orthodox Christian Church reports "ongoing ethnic cleansing of Christians" by al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant groups in the embattled Syrian city of Homs.
The report from the Vatican news agency Fides says Brigade Faruq, which has links with elements of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Islamist mercenaries from Libya, has expelled 90 percent of Christians living in Homs, nearly 50,000 people.
Reportedly, the armed Islamists went door to door in the Christian neighborhoods of Hamidiya and Bustan al-Diwan informing the homeowners that if they did not leave immediately they would be shot. Then pictures of their corpses would be taken and sent to al-Jazeera, along with the message that the Syrian government had killed them....
A lot of it has to do with as the aforementioned article suggests not about Syria but about Iran, which is no friend to us either--even if Israel didn't exist. Not only it would be morally wrong for the United States to stick its head in the sand, but since we have the ability to affect the outcome of what happens in Iran, it would just be plain unthinking.
jpw wrote: I hope Christians are ready to listen. this is what globalism does. uproot and dismantle communities and move in with global organization. wonder if that line 'this is for Israel' or democracy mumbo jumbo will be used to justify imperialism this time.
Perhaps you are hinting at Mystery Babylon and the Beast's version of globalization? All men deserve rite of passage, without fear of environment: but globally speaking, the Israel of God in Christ is possible in all four corners of the earth, as those born suddenly of the Holy Ghost, in any nation, never mind if men say that it is a Christian nation, or an anti-christian one. In that mind, we may desire no more in our own hometowns than a tent and poll in the camp of peace, compared to a stronghold of domestike broiles. But those who cleave to militance are destined to hit the end of their advantage in it.
Jer. 30:3"For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it." Mat.24:14 "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."
sure thing, the cleansing goes on and on. its rather awful. I hope Christians are ready to listen. this is what globalism does. uproot and dismantle communities and move in with global organization.
wonder if that line 'this is for Israel' or democracy mumbo jumbo will be used to justify imperialism this time.
This doesn't surprise me any, but you have to remember Sen. John McCain is a much bigger supporter of the Syrian rebels, except perhaps his ardor has cooled some? When I used the terminology, "ethnic cleansing answering-Islam" in Google, Google instead gave me the website, ‘Answering Christianity’ Instead. By the way, the preceding URL is not to that website, but to the Answering-Islam website instead and what they had to say about the former website. A Survey of Byzantine Responses to Islam . Yes, the religious minorities in Syria have a lot to fear, Syrian Christians fear for survival of faith .
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Dr. Steven J. Lawson | 10/11/2009
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By the way, the preceding URL is not to that website, but to the Answering-Islam website instead and what they had to say about the former website. 
