Over at FrontPage Mag, via RaymondIbrahim.com, I discuss the ultimate, but overlooked, significance of the spate of beheadings in Syria by the U.S.-backed “freedom fighters”:
Based on a widely circulated video and statements from the Vatican, it was believed that Fr. Francois Murad, a Catholic Syrian priest, was recently beheaded in Syria. It was not long before others “vigorously denied” the story, saying that the Christian priest was actually shot dead. And now that’s fast become the “big” news. For example, according to the Telegraph, “The footage, said to show Father Francois Murad, 49, as the victim in a brutal summary execution by foreign jihadists is likely to be an older video that bares no relation to the death of the Catholic priest. Father Murad “˜died when he was shot inside his church” in the northern Syrian Christian village of Ghassaniyeh on June 23, three separate local sources, who did not wish to be named, told the Telegraph.”
Fr. Francois Murad, left; man on right, red circle, was beheaded and believed to be the priest
So apparently that makes it better? That seems to be the Telegraph’s take, for it continues: “Claims that Father Murad was one of two men to be decapitated by a foreign jihadist group went viral, with outrage expressed in blogs and articles worldwide.”So now that he wasn’t beheaded, only shot dead inside his church, there’s no longer any call for “outrage”?
At any rate, welcome to the “distraction” tactic being exploited by the many elements trying to minimize the atrocities being committed by the jihadis””also known as the “Free Syrian Army” (FSA)””in Syria. Supporters of these jihadis exploit the fact that, in a time of war, as currently in Syria, news is not always reliable. They also claim that any news that portrays the Syrian government as the “good guys–”such as nonstop videos of the FSA committing atrocities””is just pro-Assad propaganda, that cannot be trusted (they never seem to see the flipside to this logic, that Western media can be disseminating false anti-Assad propaganda)… Continue reading.