Middle Eastern Christians sold by American and French Christians for oil

UPDATE:  November 13, 2013.  Please note that the picture of the girl is a fake.  I just came across something that confirmed it for me.  I had my doubts from the time I had seen it but was not sure. It had nothing to do with the war in Syria and the girl is either an actress or a model.  War and propaganda.
Read more:Quebec film maker and gory images.

Warning: One image below  is extremely graphic.  I prefer to think that that pic is photoshopped.  Want to remind people that America's allies in Syria are the ones responsible for what you see in the pics.  There are thousand of such atrocities committed by those who are in the pay of the USA, UK, France and others  ... and there must be a thousands more which have not been chronicled as yet.

Interview with the Syrian Christians Patriarch.
From OronteSyria SyrianChristiansInTimeOfConflict:
..."We Syrian Christians, sold by the West for oil”   
The Syrian Christians "have been betrayed and sold by the West' attacks the Syrian Catholic Patriarch Youssef III Younan. In the days when discussing military intervention, the patriarch once again criticizes "the cynical and machiavellian politics" of powers in these two and a half years they have armed the rebels, only to realize that there can be no military solution to the crisis.

Patriarch Younan, a few days ago another one of your priests was wounded in Damascus. What is known about his condition? 

Father Qassar Amer is 34 years old and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Damascus in 2003. He is the pastor of our church in Qatanah in the south of the capital. This past Wednesday, August 21 at around 6 p.m. he was going to the church of Our Lady of Fatima, in the centre of Damascus, when a bomb exploded just a few feet from him, seriously injuring him in the face, stomach and legs. He was in surgery for hours and, from what his brother told me, thank God, he is a bit 'better, but cannot speak. We pray for his recovery.

The United States and France are planning to intervene militarily. What do you think? 

Instead of helping the various parties to the conflict to find ways of reconciliation, start the dialogue for reforms based on a pluralist system of government, these powers until now have armed the rebels, incited violence and poisoned yet more relations between Sunnis and Shiites. The West thinks that with the Sunnis in government democracy will replace the dictatorship, but this is a great illusion: regime change by force, without giving security to the secular parties of inspiration, will trigger a conflict worse than in Iraq.

You often pointed out the ambiguity of the West to the Gulf monarchies. Do you still consider these countries share responsibility for the war in Syria? 

Certainly, because we are disappointed by the machiavellian cynical politics in these countries and the West: France, Great Britain, United States ... they see oil and forget their principles. For more than two years, along with Turkey, they are saying that the regime will fall: this is the biggest lie told to the respective public opinions or the worst mistake of calculation that has been made over the past decade. The regime is still there, the country is destroyed and more than 100,000 people dead. We Christians have been betrayed and sold for oil. The West supports democracy in the name of the regimes that have nothing democratic about them: Qatar and Saudi Arabia are among the most backward countries of the world. Their leaders are received in palaces like western heroes of democracy, of political pluralism and tolerance!.........

Open Doors published    its report on persecution once a year, concluding that “an estimated 100 million Christians” faced persecution around the world in 2012.
Syria went from 36th in 2011 to 11th position in the Open Doors index, with the report pointing to a perceived connection between Syrian President al-Assad and the Christian minority making them targets for attack.
“Foreign extremists now terrorize Christians in Anti-Christian Violence,” warned Ron Boyd-MacMillan, Open Doors Chief Strategy Officer.
According to its statement, “For many years, Christians were able to worship freely in Syria under President Assad’s regime. Now…anti-Christian extremists entering Syria make life impossible for Christians, causing tens of thousands of Christians to flee the country in the last few months.”
Open Doors further warned that “many Syrian Christians are facing violence against them, many have been kidnapped or murdered, while churches have been severely damaged or demolished.”
“As the regime is losing control over the country, tens of thousands of Christians are forced to flee Syria,” it added, and noted that “could lead to further isolation of Christians and their mass exodus like the one we witnessed in Iraq.”

....Syria is believed to be the land    from which Christianity spread to the four corners of the world, and it is home to a church dating back to the time of Christ’s disciples. It was here that Paul the Apostle began his journey, and the country still hosts some of the world’s oldest churches. Some Syrians still speak the ancient Aramaic language that Christ spoke, and for centuries Syrian Christians were fully integrated into the larger society and co-existed with other faiths and cultures.
However, today Syria’s Christians, along with other segments of society, are facing new challenges triggered by the uprising of the Syrian people against the regime led by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. They also bear the burden of the distinct challenges that face the continuing presence of Christianity in the Middle East as a whole.
The exodus of Christians from Syria has been increasing over the past four decades since president Hafez Al-Assad, father of Bashar Al-Assad, took power in 1971. When the country became independent in 1945, Christians represented some 20 per cent of the population, but by 1980 this figure had dropped to 16.5 per cent, or around 2.5 million people, and it dipped to 11 per cent in 1990. Today, it is estimated at six per cent of the population, or 1.5 million people.
According to Syrian scholars, the exodus of the country’s Christian community compromises the region’s culture and diverse heritage, and it has taken place despite the fact that the country’s constitution and laws grant Christians full rights. Christians have been appointed to senior government positions, such as the present parliamentary speaker Faris Khouri, and they have served as cabinet ministers, army chiefs of staff, and held senior positions in political, diplomatic and administrative institutions............

From LesFemmesBlogspot:
...."The Haddad family had no doubts   about why they had to escape from Homs. 'We left because they were trying to kill us,' said 18-year-old Noura Haddad. She is now staying with relations in the town of Zahle in the Bekaa Valley. 'They wanted to kill us because we were Christians. They were calling us Kaffirs, even little children saying these things. Those who were our neighbours turned against us.'"...

From ChristianPost:
.....Some other examples of Syrian Christians,  

27-year-old Father Michael Kayal of the Armenian Catholic Church in Aleppo was abducted in February while riding a bus after Islamists spotted his clerical garb. He has not been seen since.
Greek Orthodox priest Maher Mahfouz was kidnapped around the same time and has not reappeared.
Syrian Orthodox parish priest Father Fadi Haddad was kidnapped last December after he left his church in the town of Qatana to negotiate the release of one of his kidnapped parishioners. A week later, Fr. Haddad's mutilated corpse was found by the roadside, with his eyes gouged out.
Yohannes A. (whose last name has been redacted by Fides protect his family) was summarily executed. An Islamist gunman stopped the bus to Aleppo and checked the background of each passenger. When the gunman noticed Yohannes' last name was Armenian, they singled him out for a search. After finding a cross around his neck, one of the terrorists shot point blank at the cross, tearing open the man's chest.

A woman from Hassake recounted in December to Swedish journalist Nuri Kino how her husband and son were shot in the head by Islamists. "Our only crime is being Christians," she answers, when asked if there had been a dispute.
18-year-old Gabriel fled with his family from Hassake after his father was shot for having a crucifix hanging from his car's rear-view mirror. The son told Kino: "After the funeral, the threats against our family and other Christians increased. The terrorists called us and said that it was time to disappear; we had that choice, or we would be killed."..........