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It started with a suicide bomber.
On Sept. 4, 2013, a terrorist group launched an attack on a profoundly symbolic Syrian village.
“The dawn assault on the predominantly Christian village of Maaloula,” reported the Associated Press, “was carried out by rebels from the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group, according to a Syrian government official and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-regime group.
“At the start of the attack, an al-Nusra fighter blew himself up at a regime checkpoint at the entrance to the village, said the Observatory, which collects information from a network of anti-regime activists,” the Associated Press reported.
A story that ran on Sept. 6, 2013, in the London Daily Telegraph carried this headline: “Village that speaks the language of Christ taken by al-Qaeda.”
“The inhabitants are mostly Melkite Greek Catholic and Orthodox Christians, who have historically lived peacefully alongside Sunni Muslims,” reported the Telegraph. “It is one of only three places in the world where Western Aramaic, a dialect of the language spoken by Christ, is still used.”
“‘They entered the main square and smashed a statue of the Virgin Mary,’ said one resident, speaking by phone and too frightened to give his name,” the Telegraph reported.
Maaloula, the Associated Press said, is “famous for two of the oldest surviving monasteries in Syria – Mar Sarkis and Mar Takla.”
“The stones are shaking,” a nun at the Mar Takla monastery told the Associated Press. “We don’t know if the rebels have left or not, nobody dares go out.”
But then they had no choice but to go out.
In a report published by the Telegraph on Sept. 9, 2013, one of the nuns in Maaloula blamed the Syrian army for not saving them from the attack.
“Our army, the Syrian army, has failed us,” she said, according to the Telegraph. “We called the army, we begged them to come inside Maaloula and save us but they stayed outside. They abandoned us because we are Christians.”
That December, the nuns from this convent were kidnapped.
“Opposition fighters abducted 12 nuns from a Christian village overrun by rebels, Syria’s Greek Orthodox patriarch and the head of a convent said Tuesday, adding to fears that hardline Muslim rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad were increasingly targeting Christians,” the Associated Press reported on Dec. 4, 2013.
“The nuns and three other women were seized Monday from the Greek Orthodox Mar Takla convent in the village of Maaloula,” the report said.
In March 2014, a deal was struck to free these nuns.
“They were freed as part of a prisoner exchange involving some 150 women and children held by the Syrian government,” the BBC reported on March 10, 2014.
There was speculation that a ransom had also been paid to their kidnappers. “Two rebel leaders from Yabroud claimed Qatar had offered to pay $4m for the nuns’ release, but that the al-Nusra Front had demanded $50m and the release of detained women and children,” BBC reported. “Syrian state media reports did not mention any swap or payment.”
Syria retook Maaloula a month later — with the help of Hezbollah terrorists.
“Syrian soldiers backed by Hezbollah fighters recaptured the town of Maaloula,” Reuters reported on April 14, 2014.
“Islamist fighters, some from the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, had taken over part of the ancient Christian town in December and held several nuns captive until releasing them in March in a prisoner-exchange deal,” said Reuters.
Before the al-Nusra front had seized Maaloula and kidnapped the nuns, the U.S. State Department had designated their leader, Muhammad al-Jawlani, as a terrorist.
“The Department of State has designated al-Nusrah Front leader Muhammad al-Jawlani as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist,” the State Department said in a statement issued on May 16, 2013.
“Al-Jawlani is considered the leader of al-Nusrah,” said the State Department. “He has stated in videos that his ultimate goal is the overthrow of the Syrian regime and the institution of Islamist shari’a law throughout the country.”
“Under al-Jawlani’s leadership, al-Nusrah Front has carried out multiple suicide attacks throughout Syria,” the State Department said in 2013.
Under al-Jawlani (also translated as al-Jolani), al-Nusrah Front merged with other organizations and evolved into Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
In July 2016, according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, “al-Jolani announced the dissolution of Jabhat al-Nusra and the establishment of a new group, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham.
“The group no longer had ‘external ties’ with al-Qaeda,” said the CSIS report.
“In late January 2017, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham rebranded yet again when it merged with several other groups … to establish HTS,” said this report.
Now, HTS has managed to overthrow the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, who fled last week to Russia. “The rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, is responsible for toppling the Assad family’s five-decade grip on power,” National Public Radio noted this Sunday.
Assad led an evil government. “This regime brutalized and tortured and killed literally hundreds of thousands of innocent Syrians,” President Joe Biden said Sunday.
“It’s a moment of historic opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria to build a better future for their proud country,” Biden said.
But they will not be able to do that if their future is controlled by leaders who utilized suicide bombers, occupied a Christian city and kidnapped nuns.
The islamic loving Luciferian Globalists of America was sending weapons to our enemy ISIS in Syria…
Ask yourselves WHY???
A: To help satanic islam cleanse their nations of Jews, Christians and Shiite muslims. So the Sunni will dominate the world…
The pattern is obvious… Sunni superiority… with democracies to vote in the Caliph Antichrist…
Bible Prophecy is playing out before our very own eyes…
Who will protect Syrian Christians?
Marlo Thomas
My grandfather built most of a church in a largely Armenian village before the Armenian Genocide in which he died. (Father finished it many years later) The Al Nusra front bombed the church when ISIS was active in Syria. Little changes. I pray for the Christians in Syria. And then again the Moslem Turks killed 1.5 million Armenians
Certainly not the following Christians,however you define the word: CONDOLEEZA RICE and AYAN HIRSI ALI.
Rice is a devout Christian,a Presbyterian therefore a Calvinist.Calvinists believe that they are the ELECT, they have been predestined from eternity to go to heaven,and they can NEVER lose their salvation.Others were predestined to go to hell,since eternity.
Rice was the National Security Advisor of Bush from 2001 to 2005. Then in Bush’s second term became Secretary of State ( 2005-2009).
There when Bush illegally,against international law, UN law, declared war on Iraq in 2003,she knew the 3 reasons given were all LIES. I thought Christians were against fraud. The 3 lies were that Sadam Hussein helped Ben Laden kill 3,000 Americans in 2001, that he was secretly trying to created nuclear bombs, that he had mass weapons of a chemical and biological nature.
Rice is a member of the UNIPARTY.That means,except for the case of Trump, all the presidents whether Democrat or Republican, essentially follow the same master.Who? They follow the creator of the Globalist movement, Soros. Soros who became a billionaire and decided to conquer the world financially,install totalitarianism,via his foundation Open Society.
Today Rice is the director of a think tank. She has employees who get paid $200,000(salary) plus another $2,000 for living expenses. They do not have to teach or work in an office 9 to 5. Just write a few articles per year, give a few interviews. And who works for her?
Ayan Hirsi Ali,who has is a Somali ex-Muslim,turned atheist,then in 2023 became a Christian.She has a long history of combating Islam as a totalitarian ideology,fighting the Muslim Brotherhood,Al-Qaida and ISIS.
Notice how crazy it all is.I admire Ayan Hirsi Ali in part,her best book about Europe and Muslims is
”Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights” (2021).
Well-researched,I recommend it. She is now fighting wokism alongside Islam.
Ayan Hirsi Ali,is a Somali ex-Muslim,turned atheist,then in 2023 became a Christian.She has a long history of combating Islam as a totalitarian ideology,fighting the Muslim Brotherhood,Al-Qaida and ISIS.
Yet she works for Rice,who works for Soros. Soros is against the multipolar world of BRICS,because BRICS has destroyed his plan of conquering the world.
Soros,Globalism has allied itself with who? Among others with WOKISTS and the Muslim Brotherhood,Al-Qaida and ISIS. Literally. The CIA gave Al-Qaida and ISIS (2011-2016) 1 BILLION dollars to try to overthrow Assad in Syria. They were obeying Soros.Soros tried to imprison Trump twice via impeachment,and recently tried to ASSASINATE him before the election.
In her article on WHY she became a Christian Ali NEVER mentions the resurrection of Jesus,or any Christian doctrine,Bible prophecies, the Shroud of Turin.
No, she says it is to combat 4 enemies of Western civilization. Who are they? Soros and his Open Society? No.They are:
1. Putin and Russia
2. China
3. Islam
4. Wokism.
There is this critic of Islam and Christianity ,about a dozen videos against Islam,and more against Christianity,called Rationality Rules.Atheist. I don’t agree with all his ideas and he NEVER mentions the evil plans of Soros and the Globalists yet his video on why Ayan Hirsi Ali’s conversion to Christianity is a farce, a POLITICAL decision, is convincing,watch:
”Political Christianity is wild! Unpacking Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Conversion”
Who will protect Syria’s Christians?
Syria has 25 million people of which 2.5 million,10%, are Christian.
Tulsi Gabbard defends unconditional giving of money and arms to Israel because it is fighting Hamas and Hezbollah,that they are terrorist groups,Islamist groups.
Tulsi says it is a war of civilization versus barbarism. Good vs Evil.
To defeat Hamas and Hezbollah is a triumph of Western values,for Tulsi.
1. For years the CIA gave 1 billion dollars in money to Al-Qaida and ISIS in Syria to defeat Assad. JOLANI,head of Syria today was second in command of ISIS,friend of Al-Bagrati,the founder of ISIS and caliph. Before in Iraq Jolani was second in command of Al-Qaida there,after Zarqawi, helped kill
American soldiers, kill 100,000 Shia civilians in Iraq,via suicide bombers.And also cut off heads of civilians. Then he became leader of Al-Qaida in Syria. Jolani has a bounty of
10 million dollars on his head.
2. Did you know the US funds and arms another army in Syria,the PKK (Marxist) which changed name to SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC FORCES. The PKK is still listed as a terrorist group by the US. The founder and head of the SDF was the good friend of the founder of the PKK ,and a member of the PKK.
3. Founded on 10 October 2015, the SDF claims that its mission is fighting to create a secular, democratic and federalized Syria. I am sure Tulsi agrees that civilization, what is good.
4. The SDF has how many soldiers?
Jolani has a maximum of 30,000 terrorists,who are paid $2,000 per month.
The SDF has 30,000? More. 40,000? More. 60,000? More, 80,000? More.
100,000 soldiers.
5. Trump can easily giver unlimited arms and money,assuming Tulsi Gabbard tells him to, to the SDF to defeat Jolani’s army. Will she non-stop advocate it? That it is civilization vs barbarism. Good vs Evil?
I say a 50% chance no,because a stable,secular,democratic,federal Syria would do this. JOIN the economic bloc called BRICS,which is anti-Soros,anti-Globalist. It would join the Road and Belt Initiative , loans from China,with low interest,good conditions.
Oops,a mistake.I wrote ”$200,000(salary) plus another $2,000 for living expenses. ”
it is a salary of $200,000 plus $200,000 for living expenses. $400,000 in total.
The latest news is that the Globalist,New World Order regime of Biden,which obeys Soros, has
decided to ELIMINATE the 10 million dollar bounty on JOLANI,head of Al-Qaida and ISIS in Syria.
I hope Trump and Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rubio, Sebastian Gorkas, Mike Huckabee
and all the others, like Pompeo, Nikki Haley,
Condoleeza Rice, George Bush and the MAGA people who were saying the fight between Israel and Hamas was a fight of civilization vs barbarism will protest the act. Saying helping Jolani is helping barbarism. The US is a civilized country, we can’t help cold-blooded murderers and terrorists.
Will ANY do it? Even one?
Was in Iraq in 2004. Befriended an Iraqi Christian who did translation. As I was getting to leave for home he and I discussed Iraq and how he saw its future He sadly stated that if the Americans left Christians would be massacred and forced to leave. He was right and no one helped them. No one. I fear the same will happen in Syria.
Exactly…
I’ve read articles where it stated Iraq, at one time, had the largest percentage of Christians in the ME…
My understanding… they fled to Syria when Iraq was being destroyed by satanic worshiping muslims…
And I’ve also read reports where the persecuted Christians of the ME were being denied legal immigration into the USA…
What we’re witnessing is… the killing of Christians and Jews so satanic worshiping muslims can dominate…
When Jug-eared Barry shipped in 10s of 1,000s of Syrian “refugees”, he placed only one criteria on vetting.
It was that Christian Syrians (the ones actually needing asylum) need not apply.
B. Hussein spent $67,000+ to import each muslim refugee.
On the other hand, Barry spent millions to deport a single Christian family (the Romeikes) back to Germany.