Christians in Syria Fleeing Country as Crisis Reaches 'Unprecedented Levels of Horror'

The Muslim ethnic cleansing of Christians in Syria has begun ….

Christians in Syria Fleeing Country as Crisis Reaches ‘Unprecedented Levels of Horror’ CP World, February 2, 2013

Mideast fears Syria crisis spillover, Madav Nalapat, Sunday Guardian, Kuwait City | 2nd Feb 2013 (thanks to Tom)

….. here are multiplying reports of the foreign fighters “marrying”
unwilling Syrian women for short periods of time, or otherwise treating
them as war trophies, reports thus far ignored by their Nato allies, who
see the foreign fighters as the only way they have of getting rid of
the Assad regime. However, this plus other actions of the “freedom
fighters” that are opposed to the secular traditions of the Syrian
people have resulted in most of the country’s Sunni population rallying
behind Assad. “We dislike him, but fear the foreign fighters now in our
land much more”, a Syrian Sunni whose family has escaped to Kuwait said.
The minority Alawites, other Shias, Christians and the Druze back Assad
out of fear for the Libya-style chaos that would result were the regime
to fall. At the International Humanitarian Pledging Conference, several
speakers warned of the dominance of extremist groups among those
fighting the Syrian military, and of the spillover effect of this on the
region. Both Jordanian and Saudi delegates warned of the growing role
of extremists (including Al Qaeda) in the civil war now raging in Syria.

At
the International Humanitarian Pledging Conference, several speakers
warned of the dominance of extremist groups among those fighting the
Syrian military, and of the spillover effect of this on the region. Both
Jordanian and Saudi delegates warned of the growing role of extremists
(including Al Qaeda) in the civil war now raging in Syria.

Helped by a donation of $300 million from host Kuwait, both Saudi
Arabia and the UAE stepped forward to provide matching grants. The final
total by the end of the day was $1.5 billion, with around $400 million
more in the pipeline. This has, in the words of UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-Moon, made the Kuwait conference the best performer among the many
conferences organised by the UN to collect funds for refugees across the
globe. The European powers, although vociferous in providing advice to
those in the region, proved to be very parsimonious where actual
donations were concerned. The US contended itself by providing only half
of what tiny Kuwait has donated. India, which was represented at the
conference by Minister of State E. Ahamed, gave a token contribution of
$2.5 million, thereby showing themselves to be in the same league as the
EU member-states when it came to putting money where the vociferous
protestations of concern were.

The expectation among those seeking the fall of the Assad regime is
that Russia will pull on the plug on the current Syrian President. A
diplomat from the anti-Assad coalition said that they have been
“heartened by private messages from Prime Minister Medvedev that Russia
would change its policy” of backing Assad. However, should Beijing and
Moscow continue to back Damascus, the fighting will continue into to
indefinite future, thereby blocking the joint Turkey-GCC-Nato effort to
replace the Assad regime with one that shares their hostility to Tehran.
“After Syria, it will be the turn of Iran”, a senior diplomat revealed,
stating that “plans are already under way to ignite street protests
there once Assad is finished”. Given that President Assad is aware that
the fate which awaits him in the event of defeat is what befell Muammar
Gaddafi, it is unlikely that he will surrender in a hurry. Meanwhile,
there are anxious looks among the delegates from the GCC-Turkey-Nato
bloc. The estimate of NGOs is that the tide of Syrian refugees crossing
the country’s borders will cross a million before six months are out.
Hence, the calls from within the anti-Assad coalition for Nato to “do a
Libya” in Syria. However, the WMD stockpiles in the possession of
Assad’s forces make this unlikely if not impossible.