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Kerry Boasts
of 'Pluralistic' Syria Once Assad Gone
by Raymond Ibrahim
January 23, 2014
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U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, was recently interviewed
about Syria. While many of his assertions can be debated, one especially
requires a response. Throughout the interview, he repeatedly insisted that,
if Bashar Assad would only leave power, everything would go well —
especially for all of Syria's minorities.
In his words: "I believe that a peace can protect all of the
minorities: Druze, Christian, Ismailis, Alawites — all of them can be
protected, and you can have a pluralistic Syria, in which minority rights
of all people are protected."
Elsewhere in the interview, Kerry declared that "The world would
protect the Alawites, Druze, Christians, and all minorities in Syria after
the ousting of Assad."
The problem here is that we have precedent — exact precedent.
We've seen this paradigm before and know precisely what happens once
strongman dictators like Assad are gone.
As demonstrated in this article, in all Muslim nations
where the U.S. has intervened to help topple dictators and bring democracy,
it is precisely the minorities who suffer first. And neither the U.S. nor
"the world" do much about it.
After the U.S. toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, Christian minorities
were savagely attacked and slaughtered, and dozens of their churches were
bombed (see here for graphic
images). Christians have been terrorized
into near-extinction, so that today, a decade after the ousting of
Saddam, more than half of them have fled Iraq.
The "world" did nothing.
Ever since U.S.-backed, al-Qaeda-linked terrorists overthrew Qaddafi,
Christians—including
Americans—have been been tortured
and killed (including for
refusing to convert), their churches
bombed, and their nuns
threatened.
Not much "pluralism" there.
Once the Muslim Brotherhood came to power in Egypt, in place of Mubarak
— and all with U.S. support — the persecution of Copts practically became
legalized, as unprecedented numbers of Christians—men, women, and
children—were arrested, often receiving more than double the maximum prison
sentence, under the accusation that they "blasphemed"
Islam and/or its prophet.
Not only did the U.S. do nothing — it asked the Coptic Church not to join the June Revolution
that led to the ousting of the Brotherhood and Muhammad Morsi.
In short, where the U.S. works to oust secular autocrats, the quality of
life for Christians and other minorities takes a major nosedive. In
Saddam's Iraq, Qaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria (before the
U.S.-sponsored war), Christians and their churches were largely protected.
Today, Syria is the third worst nation in the world in which to be
Christian, Iraq is fourth, Libya 13th, and Egypt 22nd.
So how can anyone — especially Christians and other minorities — have
any confidence in Kerry's repeated assurances that religious minorities
will be safeguarded once secular strongman Assad is gone — and by the
"world" no less — leading to a "pluralistic" Syria?
Raymond Ibrahim, author of Crucified Again:
Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (Regnery, April, 2013) is a
Middle East and Islam specialist, and a Shillman Fellow at the David
Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
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