Christian Leader In Syria: Christians Will Be Massacred By Islamists If Syrian Army Leaves Aleppo

The Islamist rebels even said so themselves: convert to Islam, leave, or die …

Qur’an Sura 9:29-30, “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, even if they are of the People of the Book … the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!”

CO – “According to Moussalli, roughly 200,000 Christians still reside in the war-torn streets of Aleppo. He warns that if the Syrian Army retreats due to attacks by Islamist rebels, the Christians ‘will be massacred.’

Moussalli is the patriarchal vicar of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Jordan, which borders Syria on the south. He has spent many years attending to the spiritual needs to Christians who have fled from Iraq (along the western border) into Amman, Jordan.

Father Moussalli was among more than 50 regional Christian leaders who joined with Muslim scholars, who met at a conference in Amman against Western military intervention into the region.

Not surprisingly, very few – if any of the scholars gathered there saw much use in military intervention. Father Moussalli harshly criticized the West for supporting the Islamist rebels in Syria. ‘If we [the West] are bombing Syria now, where are all the Christians going? There are two million,’ he told the BBC.

Currently, there are about 2.5 million Christians in all of Syria, and an estimated 220,000 in Aleppo, of which about 10 percent have fled because of the rebel attacks, Moussalli says.

Ignatius Joseph Younan, patriarch of Antioch for the Syrian Catholic Church, added at the conference that ‘We stress that we reject foreign interference in Syria.’

Overall, there was high condemnation for the war drums being pounded upon by the West against Syria – and elsewhere. ‘We don’t accept any intervention by foreign powers to protect minorities,’ Pope Anba Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, in Egypt said. ‘It [intervention] is basically a pretext to advance their countries’ interest in the Middle East.'” Read more.

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Flashback: Syrian Rebels: Anyone Cursing Allah Is Given 3 Days To Repent, But Anyone Cursing Mohammed Is Killed Immediately – “Mohammed Katta’s mother witnessed the execution of her son in three stages. She was upstairs at home when she first heard the shouting. The people of the neighbourhood were yelling that ‘they have brought back the kid’, so she rushed out of her apartment… ‘I heard them say, ‘People of Aleppo and people of Shaar! Anyone who curses [Allah] is given three days to repent. Anyone who curses the Prophet is killed immediately’,’ Nadia Umm Fuad said.” Read more.

Flashback: Syria: Foreign Islamists Taking Over Mosques Call Upon Muslims To Kill Anyone Who Does Not Practice The Religion Of Mohammed – “‘Christians,’ he explained, ‘are terrified by these militias and fear that in the event of their victory they would no longer be able to practice their religion and that they would be forced to leave the country.’ … ‘As soon as they reached the city,’ the bishop said, ‘Islamist guerrillas, almost all of them from abroad, took over the mosques. Every Friday, an imam launches their messages of hate, calling on the population to kill anyone who does not practice the religion of the Prophet Muhammad.” Read more.