The Syrian Christians (who survive) are being forced to convert:
Just the other day in Pakistan, Christians “began the construction of a church on land donated by the Christian Akber Masih, a resident in the area. They built the walls of the building and placed a cross in front of the main gate of the small construction yard.” But “when a large group of Islamic extremists saw the Christian symbol they arrived unexpectedly with bulldozers and started demolishing the building.” Although the Christians notified police and authorities, “the perpetrators were not arrested.” As for the aggrieved Christians, they “have received threats and have to abandon the idea of the project to build a church.”
Thanks to Western intervention in the colonial era, the Conditions largely disappeared — not least because Muslim leaders and elites were themselves Westernizing. But today, as Muslims turn back to their Islamic heritage and its teachings — not least because Western leaders and elites are urging them to in the name of multiculturalism, if not moral relativism — the Conditions are returning. And woe to the Christian minority who dares break them by exercising religious freedom — what I call the “How Dare You?” phenomenon, which is responsible for the overwhelming majority of Islamic attacks on non-Muslims.
This is par for the course, and how Islam spread in the first place, not voluntarily through the evangelical preaching of its virtues and spiritual benefits. It was, in fact, the root cause of the Crusades.
Yeah Pakistan. That steadfast ally of the US that keeps funneling all the US military technology they get to China, housed Osama Bin Laden on their soil, etc.
Assad does not do this sort of thing. Partly because the Baath Party is not very religious. Partly because he is from a religious minority himself.
‘Jihadists’ is more of a code-word for Al-Qaeda operatives than anything else.
saddam hussein used to be very nice to the christian community of Iraq.
His #2 guy was a christian.
Do you have a point, other than the one on the top of your head?
FWIW, Saddam wasn’t religious either, but he draped himself in Islamist trappings because it was useful to help maintain his power base.
The Baathist party was a “nationalist” party and as such was not defined along
religious lines, both in Iraq and Syria.
The Americans have ended up with Iran (Religious), Iraq (Religious/tribal)
and now Syria looks like it’s going (Religious).
If our policy is to create religious states in the middle east, we seem to be
achieving that.
“If our policy is to create religious states in the middle east, we seem to be
achieving that.”
WTG Obama and his FP Brain Trust.
Hey, here is a great idea, let’s help Islamic militants overthrow their governments in places like Libya and Egypt. Wow, that didn’t turn out so good let’s try it again in Syria. Good thing Osama is dead and AQ on the run.
Some day we will find out the truth about what happened in Libya. I still remember the news reports back then. Obama looked genuinely surprised at the turn of events. I suspect the initial impetus for that did not come from the US Government but from some of its traditional allies and he ended up following the flow as things developed.
The ‘Arab Spring’ seems to be funded by the Gulf States and the US Government for the most part though. I am not saying a lot of that sentiment is not genuine but they certainly are contributing to those situations happening.