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Above: Thousands of Syrians, most of them Christians, celebrate the Christian Day of the Cross, by setting a fire on top of a mountain in the village of Maaloula, north of Damascus in 2006. Syrian government troops battled al-Qaeda-linked rebels over a regime-held Christian village in western Syria for the second day Thursday.

 

High levels of fear among Christians in Syria of US-backed extremist rebel groups committing atrocities against Christians and attacks on their churches are demonstrating an urgent need for American Christians to help defend Syrians, according to leading U.S. human rights defender on Monday.

“US Christian groups need to get active in the effort to stop war in Syria,” stated Kevin Zeese on Monday in an email to United For Peace And Justice and on a website, Popular Resistance.

“Call your member of Congress and the Senate and let them know that the lives of Christians are being threatened by Al Qaeda rebel forces in Syria,” Zeese said. “Call 202-224-3121.”

 

Zeese provides articles and a video below, with links to more articles and videos, describing attacks on Christians by Al Qaeda rebels. 

Barack Obama-backed Syrian rebel terrorists this week have dismembered a girl while she was alive along with other similar atrocities in a Christian village in Syria, according to Russia Today.

Hit-and-run attacks on the ancient village of Maaloula, one of the few places in the world where residents still speak “the original language of Christ,” Aramaic, has intensified fears among Syria’s religious minorities about the growing role of U.S.-backed rebel extremists among those fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad’s regime..

President Barack Obama has aimed to topple Assad with support from Congress and the public, first using US-backed rebels to create atrocities and chaos, blame Assad, and then illegally “target-kill” (assassinate) Assad with air strikes, according to news reports.

[See West committing terrorist atrocities, not Syria, says Chossudovsky]

Obama has used the CIA to kickstart atrocities in Syria, as 12 former military and intelligence officers revealed on Saturday. This is how Obama wormed his way into Libya and started an illegal war of aggression there, without Congressional approval or even debate.

In the latest widely circulated news, Obama-backed rebels decapitated and committed other atrocities on Christians in hit and run attacks in Maaloula.

A widely published video depicts Syrians injured and killed by chemicals that Obama unjustifiably claims was the work of Assad and his army.

Over 100,000 people have been killed in Syria, with nearly 7 million uprooted from their homes.

U.N. officials estimate 5 million Syrians have been displaced and another 2 million have fled to neighboring countries. The total amounts to almost a third of Syria’s population, that was 23 million before fighting began.

U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos met with Syrian government officials, lobbying for access to civilians trapped in areas where fighting has raged. After that meeting with the president of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, Amos told the Associated Press that she is “extremely concerned that the situation on the ground is becoming worse.”

Rather than offering real humanitarian aid, Obama is offering to bomb the country, his brand of “humanitarianism.”

Mother Agnes, a catholic nun living in Syria 20 years and reporting on the war-ravaged country, has carefully studied the video featuring alleged victims of chemical weapons attack in the Syrian village of Guta in August. She questions its authenticity.

Rather than blaming Syria’s government for terrorist atrocities across Syria, Mother Agnes blames the United States and Obama-backed Syrian Rebels.

Atrocities and other human rights violations being carried out by the rebels, including dismembering a live young Syrian girl, far outweight any type of actions by Assad-backed Syrian government forces, according to Mother Agnes.

This reflects exactly what happened in Libya, where U.S. abuses were far worse than what Gadhafi allegedly did.

[See: US-led Libyan abuses worse than Gadhafi]

“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic,” best-selling author and television writer Dresden James has said.

Teresa Stover’s words are also poignant today, as Obama-backed rebels attack innocent Syrians in the worse ways to gain support for him to take over Syria and the gas pipeline there for Israel:

Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is no different. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we know this is simply not true, and therefore we must redefine the terrain of this conflict, and clearly, it is a conflict of worldviews and agendas.

[Also see: West committing terrorist atrocities, not Syria says Chossudovsky and NATO bombs terrorize Libyan children at school in another CIA kick-started war]

Syrian rebels with ties to al-Qaeda attack Christian village under government control

“The sound of artillery reverberated Thursday through a predominantly Christian village north of Damascus as government troops and al-Qaeda-linked rebels battled for control of the mountainside sanctuary,” Associated Press’s Albert Aji and Zeina Karam reported. “The hit-and-run attacks on the ancient village of Maaloula, one of the few places in the world where residents still speak Aramaic,  the original language of Christ, highlighted fears among Syria’s religious minorities about the growing role of extremists among those fighting in the civil war to topple President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.”
 
The fighting came as President Barack Obama’s administration pressed the U.S. Congress for its authorization of a military strike against the Assad regime, while the president arrived at a G-20 summit in Russia expected to be overshadowed by Syria.
 
The fighting in Maaloula, a scenic village of about 3,300 perched high in the mountains, began early Wednesday when militants from Jabhat al-Nusra stormed in after a suicide bomber struck an army checkpoint guarding the entrance.
 
Maaloula, about 60 kilometers northeast of Damascus, had been firmly under the regime’s grip, despite sitting in the middle of rebel-held territory east and north of the capital. The village was a major tourist attraction before the civil war.  
 
The village inhabitants, mostly Melkite Greek Catholic and Orthodox Christians, have historically lived peacefully alongside Sunni Muslims. Maaloula is one of only three places in the world where Western Aramaic, a dialect of the language spoken by Christ, is still used.
 
Jabhat al-Nusra – listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department – is one of the most effective fighting forces among Syrian rebels. The suicide attack triggered battles that terrorized residents in the village, famous for two of the oldest surviving monasteries in Syria – Mar Sarkis and Mar Takla.
 
Online video showed rebels in the streets, some firing truck-mounted heavy machine guns in the direction of the surrounding mountains. The video appeared authentic and matched Associated Press reporting on the fighting.
 
Residents said the rebels took over the mountaintop Safir hotel and were firing in the direction of the community below.
 

 

Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that despite heavy army presence in the village, rebels staged hit-and-run attacks, at one point patrolling streets on foot and in vehicles, and briefly surrounding a church and a mosque before leaving early Thursday.
 
Heavy fighting around the village, on a UNESCO list of tentative world heritage sites – continued throughout the day, and heavy artillery echoed in the village.
 
“The stones are shaking,” a fearful nun at the Mar Takla monastery said. “We don’t know if the rebels have left or not, nobody dares go out.”
 
The nun spoke with Associated Press on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
 
Frightened residents expected militants to return to the Safir hotel, she said, adding: “It’s their home now.”
 
Moscow and Washington sharply disagree about how to end Syrian bloodshed: Russia is protecting the Assad regime from punitive actions in the United Nations. The U.S. is backing the opposition and repeatedly has called on Assad to step down. He has refused, so the U.S. has been sending aid to the rebels with aid and training some of them.

The above facts about realities in Syria exemplify why more American Christians are urgently needed to develop a deeper understanding and level of compassion – and thus join the effort to stop a war in Syria. 

Call your Congressional member and Senators to let them know that lives of Christians are being threatened by US-backed Al Qaeda rebel forces in Syria and to vote “NO” to a U.S. war against Syria. Call 202-224-3121.

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    • paul brown

      I oppose using the religion card. Everyone should oppose oppression of anyone. This appeal specifically to Christians could needlessly inflame anti-Muslim sentiment.

      • Mirabolin

        You only need to oppose telescope humanities universalism. The Christians do not want your sunni/christian/gentile / commie who cares as long as it’s universalist garbage

      • Deborah Dupre

        Yes, I, too oppose using the religion card – but it is being used in churches across America, drumming up Islamophobia and war against muslims… This is a call from Christians to Christians to open their eyes and hearts and learn what’s really going on, rather than what their priests and pastors are telling them. Sorry you missed that. I don’t know how to have made it any more clear.

    • Rufus Juice

      simple people of the United States ~ just look at the photo of this Syrian town.

      Does that look like Buffalo NY, Youngstown Ohio, Scottsdale AZ, or Las Vegas ? No nothing like anythin or anywhere in the united stats.

      So why does anyone in the united states have anything useful or helpful about a syrian war in a place we dont understand or share common beliefs, or common ways of life, or similar thinking?

      Don’t try to apply western thiking to a desert nation lives today like they did 2000 years ago. By the way ask any Syrian Christian in US ~ sad has suppressed Extremist Islam as his father did and grandfather as well. The muslims that attacked the US on 9/11 had more in common with the “rebels” FSA than the government. Obama supports the rebels and al qaeda just like he egypt ~ confused? i am.

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