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Syrian Archbishop: Christians are “prime target’ of Islamic State

Oct 15, 2015 2:32 pm By Robert Spencer

Archbishop Jeanbart ‘called on the West to act to save Syria from the ‘fundamentalist, jihadist mercenaries’ who are ‘killing anyone who would speak of freedom, citizenship, religious freedom and democracy.'”

The West won’t lift a finger to do this. Archbishop Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, should ask his colleagues in the West why they are sacrificing his people to the golden calf of “dialogue” and silencing and ostracizing those who speak honestly about why his people are being persecuted. He should ask some of his confident fellow bishops from the U.S. to go over to Syria and explain to the Islamic State jihadis how they’re misunderstanding their peaceful religion.

These craven bishops share the responsibility for what is being done to Archbishop Jeanbart’s people.

Jeanbart

“Syrian Archbishop: Christians Are ‘Prime Target’ of ISIS’ Religious Cleansing Campaign,” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, October 14, 2015:

The Archbishop of Aleppo has called on the West to act to save Syria from the “fundamentalist, jihadist mercenaries” who threaten his country, “killing anyone who would speak of freedom, citizenship, religious freedom and democracy.”

According to the Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart, the situation for Christians in Aleppo is “desperate,” with churches bombed and no way of finding work for the people. He is asking the West to help Syria reclaim “our freedom and our rights” from ISIS.

Jeanbart’s own cathedral has been bombed six times and is now unusable, and his home has also been struck more than 10 times. “We are facing the rage of an extremist jihad; we may disappear soon,” he said.

“Christian communities,” he said, “are the prime target of the so-called caliphate’s religious cleansing campaign.”

Jeanbart spoke Tuesday at the UK launch of the report “Persecuted and Forgotten? A report on Christians oppressed for their faith 2013-15,” produced by the Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need. He described how the Islamic State has been systematically destroying his nation through massacre and destruction, and undermining it through the suppression of basic human rights and freedom.

“The country has been in a flood of blood. They have destroyed our economy, our industry, our churches, everything,” he said.

“We suffer a lot, but the thing that we are suffering most from is that they are taking away our right to be and our right to choose what we want to be,” he said.

Jeanbart said that freedom of religion is crucial for this fight. People must be free to choose their faith with no fear of repercussions, and no one should be condemned because of his faith.

The Archbishop also enumerated some of the recent brutality they have suffered at the hands of the Islamic State, noting that in the last month alone, 50 Christians have been killed, “many of them savagely executed by ISIS.”

“Just a few days ago three of our faithful were kidnapped by ISIL and huge ransoms demanded,” he said. “We tried to found a way to let them go but it was impossible, so they beheaded them.”…

According to the report, Christianity is fated to disappear from Iraq “possibly within five years” unless the international community offer substantial assistance to the persecuted faithful there.

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  1. Christianblood says

    Oct 15, 2015 at 2:35 pm

    The Arch Bishop should appeal to Russia, not the Americans and other Westerners who are backing the barbaric muslim jihadists that are murdering and persecuting Christians all across the M.E.

    • Richard says

      Oct 16, 2015 at 4:31 am

      Seconded. Russia has seized an opportunity to gain advantage by assuming protective responsibility for Christians. European and American societies are post-Christian, unlikely to assist and eager to tithe in the interest of moral equivalency. If you profess to Christianity, appeals for assistance ought to go to Russia.

      • christianblood says

        Oct 16, 2015 at 12:11 pm

        Exactly! The problem is that most people in America and the West don’t realize this shift.

  2. Angemon says

    Oct 15, 2015 at 3:22 pm

    According to the Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart, the situation for Christians in Aleppo is “desperate,” with churches bombed and no way of finding work for the people. He is asking the West to help Syria reclaim “our freedom and our rights” from ISIS.

    Jeanbart’s own cathedral has been bombed six times and is now unusable, and his home has also been struck more than 10 times. “We are facing the rage of an extremist jihad; we may disappear soon,” he said.

    Well, he won’t get any help from our moral superiors with that attitude and language. See, our moral superiors insist that we don’t call jihad jihad but “violent religious extremism”. Calling jihad jihad is not conductive to “community cohesion”, and is, in fact, “incitement to hatred” against muslims-who-did-nothing-wrong-and-just-want-to-work-and-abide-by-the-law-and-have-a-sandwich-accompanied-by-a-juice-because-they-don’t-drink-alcohol.

    No, what out moral superiors would have him say is that there is a bunch of people who hijacked the peaceful religion of islam and are committing horrific crimes and that he needs help to fight the bloody-terrorists-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-islam-and-are-in-fact-not-muslims-despite-calling-themselves-muslims-and-justify-their-actions-with-islamic-scriptures. Then he must accept that his own community – the persecuted Christians – is to be placed under surveillance because our moral superiors want to combat “violent religious extremism”, and let’s not get on our high horses because Crusades and stuff. Finally, after seeing that no “violent religious extremism” is being done by the persecuted Christians, our moral superiors will just let them die – they’re Christians, it’s not like they’re real people anyway.

    tl;dr: Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart better not be counting on actual help from the West because I doubt he’ll get any.

  3. IQ al Rassooli says

    Oct 15, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart cannot possibly be correct because after all pope Francis asserted to his 1.2 billion Catholics that he could not find AGGRESSIVE verses in Muhammad’s Quran

    Furthermore, the All Knowing and merciful pope Francis instructed his ‘church’ to EMBRACE Muslims and to allow them to ‘invade’ Europe & America because most Muslims are followers of Islam the ‘religion of peace’

    Jeanbart must be definitely be in error since Angela Merkel of Germany is adamant that Germany & the European Union should ‘import’ millions of ‘peaceful’ Muslims and almost every leader in Europe (politicians, clergy & media, excepting Orban of Hungary) are singing the same mantra

    All these illustrious leaders cannot be WRONG after all!

    Now to FACTS:
    Only Putin has been supporting Christianity & Christians (when ever he can) for the last five years.

    It was Russia that put up a 40 foot statue of Jesus in Syria

    The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Kiril a few days ago said that Christianity is at war of self defense with Islam thus eliciting the usual Muslim Fatwa (religious declaration) to destroy Russia and murder Kiril

    Muslims have been at TOTAL war (of Subjugation or EXTERMINATION) with ALL of none Muslim humanity for the last 1400 years and this conflict will only STOP when either humanity unites and utterly destroys Islam or of course Islam will win by default

    It is an sickening and disgusting irony that today, the most powerful nations on Earth are None Muslim and YET they (Muslims) are threatening us with destruction and our leaders are grovelling to them!

    Within the next SIX months, if the European people AWAKEN, there will be catastrophic social upheavals vis a vis Islam & Muslims.

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

  4. Linde Barrera says

    Oct 15, 2015 at 8:14 pm

    It is so sickeningly heart breaking that good Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and Iraq are put through the persecution, torture, rape, beheading or crucifixion punishments. Convicted prisoners who committed crimes are treated better. Please, if you even remotely believe in God, say a prayer that the barbaric savagery of IS stops miraculously, somehow. Enough is enough.

  5. Rixx says

    Oct 16, 2015 at 1:59 am

    There are no more Jews left.
    Who will be next?

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Oct 16, 2015 at 5:47 pm

      “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people”.

      The Muslims – and yes, the Alawites too, similarly infected with Jew-hatred, if they had been smart they would have sided with the Jews – drove all the Jews out of Syria, persecuting them terribly beforehand.

      The Muslims drove the Jews out of Iraq – and one must bear in mind that the Jewish community in Iraq was ancient, like the community in Yemen it long predated the arrival of Muslim infiltrators and armies.

      Now the Muslims in Syria are proceeding to destroy a/ the Alawite heretics and b/ the Christians, and the Muslims in Iraq are busy driving out or killing or force-‘converting’ the Christians.

  6. Pavils Bruvers says

    Oct 16, 2015 at 4:39 am

    I don’t believe that Putin’s criminal regime is a defender of Christianity. He is defending only his power and Russia’s imperial ambitions. Putin himself is a threat to the democratic world.
    The question is – what can we realy do to stop the IS crimes in ME and the muslim invasion in Europe? Of course – to pray! But, what else?

  7. dumbledoresarmy says

    Oct 16, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    This Bishop’s plea, and his testimony to the specific and obsessive targeting of the *Christians* by the Muslims in both Syria and Iraq, is yet another reason why *only* CHRISTIANS from Syria – and from Iraq – should be accepted into any western country – for example, Australia – as refugees.

    EVERY one of the 12,000 Syrian refugees Australia intends to take in, MUST – OUGHT – to be bona fide Christians; I am *sure* that if our government rang up this Bishop in Aleppo and said, “Can you provide 12,000 people for 12,000 refugee-and-asylum visas to Australia?” he would ring around his assorted clergy – and his fellow Bishops – and soon be able to produce 12,000 fully-verified-and-certified baptised-and-confirmed Syrian Christians to fill those places.

    So here’s what all of us – Aussies, Canadians, Yanks, British, French, German, you-name-it, have to do.

    We *make a copy* of this article, highlighting the Bishop’s name and location.

    We QUOTE the relevant passages when we write to a/ our immigration and foreign affairs ministers and our head of state, *demanding* that all places offered to Syrian refugees MUST go to the persecuted Christians who are being subjected to genocide. We *demand* that NO Muslims be permitted to take up any place that could otherwise be offered to a Christian who will most likely be KILLED if he or she remains in Syria.

    We also, if Christian, and especially if Catholic, send the same information to our religious leaders in our own countries, *demanding* that THEY speak up on behalf of the CHRISTIANS, first and foremost.

    During the genocide of the Armenians, people in the West agitated on behalf of the Armenians.

    They didn’t wring their hands over the imagined plight of the poor persecuted suffering Turkish, Kurdish and Arab Muslims (many even most of whom were busy raping, robbing and mass-murdering the Armenians or if not doing so were avidly watching, enabling and applauding the process) or demand that if Armenians were admitted as refugees, then – because we mustn’t discriminate! – equal or prior space should be granted to the poor suffering Muslims, i

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