President Obama condemned the Syrian government for trying to protect Alawites, Christians, the role of women in society, and all Syrians who oppose Sunni Islamic radicalism. President Obama commented that “I strongly condemn the Syrian government’s unspeakable assault against the people of Homs.” However, is President Obama going to condemn the ethnic cleansing of 90% of the Christian community from Homs by forces he eulogizes and whom he deems to be innocent?
If President Obama doesn’t condemn the ethnic cleansing of Christians in Homs then his silence, and the silence of others who also desire to “hide the civilization struggle,” shames all senior politicians and implies that they support the destruction of the Christian presence in this city. Therefore, will Obama condemn the radical Sunni Islamic assault against unarmed Christians?
If you turn the clock back to Iraq then 60% of the Christian community fled this country after the American led invasion. The “bleeding of the Christian presence” in Iraq is a clear reminder that the embattled Christians of the Middle East have been abandoned by the West. Therefore, they have been left to the sword of radical Sunni Islam. This in turn leads to greater militancy and hatred — and the next move is then against moderate Sunni Muslims who want to co-exist because their voices are crushed by indoctrination and fear.
It is ironic, because President Obama and Hillary Clinton will talk about the forces of good but it was the government of Syria which allowed 100,000 Christians to flee to this multi-religious society, which is based on secularism. Christians fleeing Iraq either stayed in Syria or the breathing space enabled them to move to other nations. However, it is clear that the government of Bashar al-Assad provided them with protection from the forces of radical Islam.
Agenzia Fides, Vatican News Agency, comments that “in Homs there is “an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Christians”, carried out by members of the “Brigade Faruq”, close to Al Qaeda…Militant armed Islamists — says the note — have managed to expel 90% of Christians in Homs and confiscated their homes by force.”
“According to Orthodox Metropolitan sources, the militants went door to door in the neighborhoods of Hamidiya and Bustan al-Diwan, forcing Christians to flee, without giving them the chance to take their belongings. The “Faruq Brigade” is run by armed elements of Al-Qaeda and various Wahhabi groups and includes mercenaries from Libya and Iraq.” MORE
I. HISTORY OF THE WAHHABI MOVEMENT
The contemporary Wahhabi movement is the modern outgrowth of a 250-year-old
schism within Islam that was sparked by a radical evangelist named Muhammad ibn Abdul
Wahhab (1703-1792). Ibn Abdul Wahhab believed that Islam had been corrupted by countless
errors and innovations, which he set out to purge with puritanical zeal.
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He and his followers
denounced intellectualism, mysticism and traditional Islamic spirituality. They declared most of
the Islamic scholars, thinkers and clerics that preceded them heretics and rejected the classical
schools of Islamic jurisprudence that were the guarantors of moderation in traditional Muslim
society. This is significant because it allowed the Wahhabis to interpret Islam according to their
own whims – accepting those elements that supported their aims and ambitions, and rejecting
whatever stood in their way. Anyone who failed to embrace Ibn Abdul Wahhab’s new doctrine
was declared an “unbeliever.” Along with Jews, Christians and people of other faiths, they were
declared “enemies of Islam” and became the target of a vicious crusade aimed at “purifying the
faith.
The contemporary Wahhabi movement is the modern outgrowth of a 250-year-old
schism within Islam that was sparked by a radical evangelist named Muhammad ibn Abdul
Wahhab (1703-1792). Ibn Abdul Wahhab believed that Islam had been corrupted by countless
errors and innovations, which he set out to purge with puritanical zeal.
1
He and his followers
denounced intellectualism, mysticism and traditional Islamic spirituality. They declared most of
the Islamic scholars, thinkers and clerics that preceded them heretics and rejected the classical
schools of Islamic jurisprudence that were the guarantors of moderation in traditional Muslim
society. This is significant because it allowed the Wahhabis to interpret Islam according to their
own whims – accepting those elements that supported their aims and ambitions, and rejecting
whatever stood in their way. Anyone who failed to embrace Ibn Abdul Wahhab’s new doctrine
was declared an “unbeliever.” Along with Jews, Christians and people of other faiths, they were
declared “enemies of Islam” and became the target of a vicious crusade aimed at “purifying the
faith.
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