Assad Falls: What's next for Syria's Christians?

[@designermetal1]

Justin Trudeau tweeted: "The fall of Assad's dictatorship ends decades of brutal oppression. A new chapter for Syria can begin here - one free of terrorism and suffering for the Syrian people. Canada is monitoring this transition closely. We urge order, stability, and respect for human rights." On behalf of all my fellow Canadians, I apologise for this idiot.

[@TheMilitiaGuy]

Trudeau is an apostate Catholic.

[@ryansilva1274]

I support Trudeau because he’s woke and supports the Great Reset.

[@CantusTropus]

@@ryansilva1274 Bait? If not, get out of here.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

I agree with you that Trudeau is a (woke) idiot. But what he said about the Assad regime was true *The Assad regime was brutal!* I am very skeptical that "A new chapter for Syria can begin here--one free of terrorism and suffering for the Syrian people" Why? Because all of us have seen HTS, al-Qaeda and ISIS in action.

[@TheJudge1933]

Trudeaux is ten times more oppressive than any Arab dictator

[@geoded]

The end of an era. "Who must go?" memes have me nostalgic.

[@mahatmamartinus]

Sad day

[@DACHgag]

​@@mahatmamartinusA very sad day indeed.

[@jamesgarner327]

nation states are often formed on ethnic lines, I don't see a future for middle-eastern christians

[@AnnDale-ie3jn]

Many Christians from Lebanon and Syria have moved to Argentina in the past 100 years the former president Carlos menim was of Arab stock from Syria

[@silasbishop3055]

We are all over the Americas. My family moved to the US and Canada after the Adana Massacre in Anatolia.

[@bass9351]

U know Merim is an Assyrian name not arab

[@genericyoutubeaccount579]

There are still 1 million Christians in Lebanon, 2 million Christians in Saudi Arabia, 3 million Christians in Pakistan.

[@thermionic1234567]

I think you mean Roman Catholic Filipinos, not indigenous Arab Christians. I’d love to be wrong!

[@KBroly]

I'll ask, but if you don't know that's okay; how many Christians were living in Libya before the fall of their Government in 2011?

[@webmaristocrat4052]

those 2 million Christians in Saudi Arabia are predominantly temporary Filipino migrant workers

[@thermionic1234567]

@@KBrolyI have no idea. Is Hippo in Libya? There were probably a few thousand; but now that the Mohammedan conquest of Libya is complete and that it was done by men who - even by Islamic standards - are crude and vicious, I doubt the Pact of Umar rules obtain.

[@DukeofTxtspeak]

@@thermionic1234567 I believe it is in Libya, yes.

[@unoriginal_username1]

We must all pray for our Christian brothers and sisters in Syria and the middle east at large. 🙏🏻 God protect and strengthen them

[@ruyaal]

The Christian’s in Iraq and the ones in Syria had a slightly different dynamic. In Iraq they were preferred by the Baath because they did not posed a threat to the government as the Shia were. In Syria the Alawites were a minority as the Christians and it was only natural to cooperate in a more egalitarian way with the government.

[@woodwyrm]

also the Christians were employed to facilitate communication across sectarian lines, especially in Syria as Christians will speak to anyone willing to listen, little wonder that a soon resurgent ISIS will target the remaining Christian communities throughout the Levant in order to make speaking to one another impossible.

[@Lowest_Levels]

Syria was a multi confessional and society with non sectarian elements bringing dignity to the Near East/Middle East. This has now been threatened.

[@TheonomyNOW]

Multiconfessionalism is as bad as multiculturalism and multiethnicism. I'm no Muslim but we shouldn't pretend that decreasing homogeneity is a good thing that brings dignity. If Islam is true it should dominate all sectors of society, the same is true of Christianity if it is true, unfortunately the christian church is suicidal and brainwashed by libertarian secularists into believing that allowing your enemy to wield power over you and your people is dignified and "Christ-like" somehow. The muslims and anti-christians win by nature because they don't value the anti-rational tolerance of falsehood.

[@ibrahimkalmati9379]

@@Lowest_Levels what under which rock you are living.

[@BogaSlawa]

This is not good. I am worried

[@turnip5359]

@@BogaSlawa Nothing good ever comes out of a power vacuum, especially in the ME where dictators are usually the lesser of the two evils

[@Ciech_mate]

I am currently playing a campaign on CK3 about uniting the east and African Christians

[@jasoncropley5334]

Love CK3! Or any other historical strategy games, I.e. the total war series.

[@Ciech_mate]

As a British Veteran of 10 years in a specific British unit, I have a unique perspective on this as our unit operated on the region.

[@estatesales9818]

Replace "operated" with "ruined."

[@ajsj]

@@estatesales9818let’s be a bit more fair to our fellow AM friends.

[@ajsj]

@@estatesales9818 Let’s be more charitable to fellow AM friends.

[@ajsj]

@@estatesales9818 Let’s be more charitable, friend.

[@bushwhackeddos.2703]

You fought them over there, then the people you worked for, brought them over here.

[@lavoisier4480]

"What can men do against such reckless hate"

[@TheonomyNOW]

​​@@lavoisier4480 Don't fall into the "hate = bad" camp. Hate and love are two sides of the same coin, they're both actions, hate is the active form of disaffection and love is the active form of affection. If you love something you must also hate it's opposite by necessity. If you don't hate, you don't love either. This effeminate idea that all hate is evil is a morally relativist psyop designed to make people afraid of fighting against evil (because if you don't hate you don't love either.) The Christian's militant, pluralist love and tolerance of falsehood and false beliefs is what got it here to begin with, if not in Syria then certainly in the bigger picture.

[@RainBird88x]

The Levant really needs to Balkanize. There are too many different people and religions for the current states to work.

[@fabreezethefaintinggoat5484]

multumesc

[@albertarthurparsnips5141]

Interestingly, the seminal figure widely credited with forming what was to finally become the ABSP ( Arab Ba’ath Socialist Party ), the Damascene school master, Michel Aflaq, was a Greek Orthodox Christian. Eventually repudiated & denounced by Hafiz Al-Assad , he ended up exiled in Saddam’s Iraq, ‘kicked upstairs’ by the Iraqi Ba’ath as a powerless but publicly venerated founding - father figure… As for secularism , it was all rather nuanced with Aflaq. Declared by Saddam to have converted to Sunni Islam on his deathbed, he had long since written in laudatory terms on Islam. Seeing it as the finest quintessence of ‘Arabism’ one could possibly encounter.

[@maxmercer1931]

It's Semiogrug

[@gregorymalchuk272]

"The Christians to Beirut and the Alewites to the graveyard." -Al-Nousra circa 2013

[@davidchicoine6949]

My god i thought it was a monologues...

[@alexander63736]

Bro what kinda conversation is this. Im 30 minutes deep and only you talked.

[@briandelaney9710]

I thought this was Rory Stewart for a moment :)

[@FITSOZOLIFE]

Oded Yinon plan

[@PMMagro]

Very good question. No one knows obvioulsy. The risk that minorities become scapegoats later on is obvious (Alawites first as the Assad family was one of them but ...really any minorities). Syria has many religious and etnical groups though so some kind of powersharing and balance has to be found. Christians in Syria is nothing new at all and have been able to live under many different rulers. Stability whoudl help a lot. Nutters like ISIS don't have much room to manouvre in a normal situation. It takes some chaotic situation for that kind to thrive. Like the US invasion of Iraq and powervacum in parts of Syria also later enabled.

[@bod3102]

I'm interested to ask, if syria accepted the state of israel back in the 1950s, would syria still exist today?

[@silasbishop3055]

No. They were allied with Russia and Iran. The West will use Sunni islamists for its own means and because they ware a threat to Israel, the West has an excuse to intervene.

[@danieljevremovic7774]

AM should talk more other guy should talk less, that was brutal at the end.

[@ajsj]

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