Christians in Syria can forget about their human rights if William Hague arms the rebels
Christians in Syria can forget about their human rights if William Hague arms the rebels

The UK and its allies would be able to send arms to Syrian opposition groups straightaway if they felt such a move was justified, William Hague has said.

An existing EU embargo was lifted on Monday.  MPs from all parties have warned about weapons falling into extremists’ hands.

William Hague lobbied European leaders to lift the embargo.

Sending arms to be sent to the Syrian rebels will mean systematic persecution of Syria’s 10% Christian minority, who had relative safety under President Assad’s Alawite regime..

It will also mean weapons falling into the hands of Muslim extremists attached to Al-Qaeda.

Finally, it will mean equipping enemies of Israel who make President Assad look like a Zionist in comparison.

Mr Hague knows all this, so why is he so intent on arming the rebels?

Christians are already under attack.  The Fars News Agency from Iran reports (27th May 2013):

The armed rebels affiliated to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) raided the Christian-populated al-Duvair village in Reef (outskirts of) Homs near the border with Lebanon today and massacred all its civilian residents, including women and children.

The Syrian army, however, intervened and killed tens of terrorists during heavy clashes which are still going on in al-Duvair village.

The armed rebels’ attack and crimes in al-Duvair village came after they sustained heavy defeats in al-Qusseir city which has almost been set free by the Syrian army except for a few districts.

Truth is often hard to come by in that part of the world (it isn’t that easy here) but we have reported before on attacks by Syrian rebels on Christians.

Even the BBC’s website is admitting that the Syrian opposition is riven with internal disputes and extremism.  See:

Syria crisis: Rebels condemn opposition coalition

Guide to the Syrian opposition

All across the Middle East, in countries affected by the ‘Arab Spring’, Christians are coming under persecution.  Our Government’s intervention in Iraq resulted in a hard-line Islamic takeover  and the eviction or extermination of Christians, yet the Foreign Secretary is intent on ploughing the same furrow in Syria.  The question must be asked: Does William Hague hate Christians?

 

Previous stories:

10th August 2012: £32.5m for the anti-Christian Syrian rebels

27th July 2012:      Syria – Thank God for the Russians

 

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  2. The answer is probably yes. We are a nuisance in the modern world view. The little adventure of Blair and Bush both supposedly Christians, destroyed the Church in Iraq. It went from over 1 million under Saddam to under
    200 000 today. Having met people who worked in Iraq with Christians after it was ‘liberated’ they described how the most horrific cruelty and oppression was and is carried out against Christians there. I met a senior leader of the established Syrian Church some years ago and according to him Christians enjoyed a great deal of freedom in Syria even to the point of the government building churches. After years of war in Afghanistan it will probably relapse into extremism. Extreme Islam is on the march and the weak democracy allegedly now established there will not survive. Islam is a missionary religion and world conquest is the end game with the Mahdi coming to take over all the conquered land. Extremists are in fact the true Muslims. Blair, Bush ,Brown, Obama, Cameron and Hague are facilitating this whole process. God and history will judge them.

  3. I find it strange that the British government with their nose’s stuck in yet another country’s affairs would even consider arming these ”rebels”, just last week a soldier was almost beheaded in London and puppet man Cameron and co stood up to condemn this atrocity but there are videos surfacing from Syria showing these ”rebels” beheading prisoners, beheading Syrian soldiers and one even shows a Syrian soldier having his heart cut out by a ”rebel”, am i to understand that the British government thinks its deplorable for this to happen in England yet perfectly acceptable for it to happen in Syria?

  4. It doesn’t help very much to suggest that extremists are the true Muslims. It is in everybody’s interest to insist they are not.

    I think in answer to the original article, it must be born in mind that there are many other factors to be considered in foreign relations than the existence of Christian groups. When Germany, undoubtedly a Christian country, has gone to war in the past, it has not weighed up which countries were the least Christian, so that they should be the ones to be invaded. However, it did at one point take it out on the Jews, which is universally condemned. I never heard of it being criticised for invading, say, the Netherlands, because the Netherlands were Christian.

    So no, I don’t think Hague sending arms to Syria shows he hates Christians, any more than sending arms to Russian in the Second World War showed that Churchill hated Christians (the arms being used to attack Germans).
    If you go further back, after a relatively long period of mostly peace in Europe, in 1914 some English ladies were very upset that two Christian countries should be at war, yet others were happy enough to learn that the civilised Germans had suddenly become barbarians.

  5. I’m not sure if he hates Christians but their may be more pressing concerns in his mind such as playing the right move with respect to diplomacy and watching what our allies are doing, with Christanity down the list.