Here is a follow-up to this post from Sept 8th about the Christian enclave of Ma'loula or Maaloula. Wikipedia tells us:
Religiously, the population consists of both Christians (mainly Antiochian Orthodox and Melkite Greek Catholic) and Muslims. For the Muslim inhabitants, the legacy is all the more remarkable given that they were not Arabised, unlike most other Syrians who like them were Islamised over the centuries but also adopted Arabic and shifted to an "Arab" ethnic identity.
The Historic Christian Town Of Maaloula, Syria, Now Under Control Of Islamists
Snipers haunt Syrian Christian town of Maaloula "Maalula(sp), city of culture and history, welcomes you," reads a sign at the entrance to Syria's best known Christian town. But any semblance of welcome evaporates once inside Maalula.
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"On September 14, for the first time, the town known across the Middle East for its "Exaltation of the Cross" feast day was not decorated with lights, nor did it host Christian and Muslim visitors dining and celebrating together."
Christian village Maaloula falls into jihadists' hands as Al-Qaeda grows in Syria
Syrian Christians forced to convert to Islam in isolated town "They shot and killed people," one Maaloula resident says. "I heard gunshots and then I saw three bodies lying in the middle of a street in the old quarters of the village. Where is President Obama to see what has befallen us?"
" 'I saw the militants grabbing five villagers and threatening them and saying, "either you convert to Islam, or you will be beheaded,'" another Christian resident said.
"Another said one church had been torched while other gunmen stormed into two other churches and robbed them."
Why does the Islam we see daily only destroy, never build? And why does the left support their war against civilized nations?
Religiously, the population consists of both Christians (mainly Antiochian Orthodox and Melkite Greek Catholic) and Muslims. For the Muslim inhabitants, the legacy is all the more remarkable given that they were not Arabised, unlike most other Syrians who like them were Islamised over the centuries but also adopted Arabic and shifted to an "Arab" ethnic identity.
The Historic Christian Town Of Maaloula, Syria, Now Under Control Of Islamists
Snipers haunt Syrian Christian town of Maaloula "Maalula(sp), city of culture and history, welcomes you," reads a sign at the entrance to Syria's best known Christian town. But any semblance of welcome evaporates once inside Maalula.
....
"On September 14, for the first time, the town known across the Middle East for its "Exaltation of the Cross" feast day was not decorated with lights, nor did it host Christian and Muslim visitors dining and celebrating together."
Christian village Maaloula falls into jihadists' hands as Al-Qaeda grows in Syria
Syrian Christians forced to convert to Islam in isolated town "They shot and killed people," one Maaloula resident says. "I heard gunshots and then I saw three bodies lying in the middle of a street in the old quarters of the village. Where is President Obama to see what has befallen us?"
" 'I saw the militants grabbing five villagers and threatening them and saying, "either you convert to Islam, or you will be beheaded,'" another Christian resident said.
"Another said one church had been torched while other gunmen stormed into two other churches and robbed them."
Why does the Islam we see daily only destroy, never build? And why does the left support their war against civilized nations?
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