Whither the Christian-majority provinces, the Christian festivals as public holidays, the well-maintained Christian and other pre-Islamic sites of importance, and the large government programme of restoring synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, an expense which gives the lie to the claims of a certain neighbouring state as to quite how few Jews are still living in Syria?
Why is no one bothering to ask any of this?
Britain's great voice in defense of Mid-East Christians, who else admits we exist? Nobody in the US and nobody but you in the UK. The best we can hope for is occasional mentions by people who support Israel, support Turkey, supported Mubarak, supported the war against Iraq, want "regime change" in Syria and Iran, preferred the old Saudi-puppet regime in Lebanon to the new government there. God bless you, David Lindsay.
ReplyDeleteAnd God bless you. Even if you are a bit harsh on some other people. Not all of them. But some.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting that it is often the relatively pro-Christian governments and nations in the Middle East that get targeted for destruction by both neocons and Sunni Islamists.
ReplyDeleteGOP presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty is already calling for Obama to remove the American ambassador in Damascus and level sanctions, “both economic and otherwise," against Syria.