* As BBC is extremely biased in favor of Sunni Saudi islamists in these matters, it would make no sense if their chosen correspondent wouldn't be equally biased.
Update:
Voices from Maaloula
Maaloula's two famous monasteries were saved, but that two village churches, one Orthodox, the other Eastern-Rite Catholic, had been ransacked. The churches still existed -- kind of.
"On the inside, the icons, the holy books, everything had been desecrated. Not just ripped off the walls, but covered in urine," said Bishop Basil. Obviously, this must be seen as "real desecration -- by that wing of the Free Syrian Army."
Update: Islamist opposition uses land - land rockets in addition to sarin gas
Syrian security official confirmed Tuesday that the armed opposition militants have locally manufactured land - land rockets in addition to sarin gas, in the wake of the UN report on alleged use of chemical weapons in an attack on Damascus last month.
"I deny hundred percent the use of the Syrian army to the material," the Syrian official said in the first official reaction after the report.
"There is no justification to resort to this weapon because we are achieve victories on the ground," he stated, noting that "those who resort to this weapon is the defeated party who reached the point of suicide."
The source indicated that the Syrian army "is making progress in all areas, and operations are going according to the plan."
The official also underlined that "the terrorists manufacture land-land rockets locally, and that it is likely that they have put sarin gas in them", in reference to the a Ghota alleged attack in August 21.
"The terrorists know perfectly well how to install the material on missile warheads," the Syrian official said, adding that they had "received training at the hands of U.S., British and French intelligence experts who are working with them on the ground."
Western, Saudi, Qatar etc sponsored violence in Syria
With Obama's & Co warmongering rhetoric against Syria, prominent Christian figures in Mideast have warned Christians about the extreme danger that islam and its Saudi supported Sunni muslims pose.
The leader of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement, MP Michel Aoun accuses the West of encouraging the collective displacement of Christians by backing the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front.
Possibly all the Christians living in Maaloula have now fled. Bloudan next?
Christian scholars and others accuse Washington and some European governments of plotting to displace them in exchange for oil and gas.
According to Greek Melkite Patriarch Gregory Laham III, witnesses told that when the rebels moved into Maaloula they threatened Christians with death unless they converted to islam.
Some Christians who fled wrote to the US Congress to alert them of the horror of the attack. They said that members of the Islamist Al-Nusra Front, looted "monasteries and churches, removing sacred images as they went on, ordering residents to convert to islam to save their life".
"I saw people wearing Al-Nusra headbands who started shooting at crosses," one resident said to the AFP news agency. One insurgent "put a pistol to the head of my neighbour and forced him to convert to islam by obliging him to repeat ‘there is no God but [Allah].' Afterwards they joked, ‘He's one of ours now'".
The muslim genocide of Christians, Jews etc in muslim Arab land
Kristen Chick (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2013/0912/Across-Egypt-piles-of-ash-where-church-pews-once-stood-video): Minya's streets are now lined with burned-out hulks. Church interiors have been reduced to ash. The once-cheerful turquoise exterior of a Christian orphanage is now streaked black from the fire that gutted it. Destroyed wheelchairs sit outside a burned-out Jesuit center that worked with disabled people. Torched schools, shops, and monasteries lie in ruins. On one street, several Christian-owned shops are reduced to scorched rubble. Nearby, an untouched snack shop blares a song that proclaims “Egypt is Islamic.”
As the attacks happened, police did little or nothing to stop them.
For some Christians, the trouble didn't stop when the flames died down. A few days after their church was torched, a neighbor relayed an anonymous threat to Said Botros Attallah and his wife Sahar Atteya Saadallah: Pay 500 Egyptian pounds, or their house would be burned down – with them inside.
Samir Lamei Sakr, a lawyer who focuses on human rights, has already seen his home burned down in the village of Delja, in Minya province. He says there is no going back. He fled to Cairo with his immediate and extended family after mobs attacked their houses, and killed his cousin, dragging his body through the streets behind a vehicle, Mr. Sakr says.
Free Syrian Army muslim rebels and the muslim al-Nusra islamists (both supported by Obama, the Saudis, Qatar etc) have all the time been fighting together against Assad and his government forces. So also in Maaloula where Christians have been forced to flee after having been murdered, and intimidated (incl. forced conversion to islam) by muslims*.
* Yes, idiot! They were muslims, period. And this fact isn't altered by there being some so called "moderate" muslims in the world. On the contrary, this kind of islam excuse is the worst of bigoted hypocrisy. Eating the cake while still having it, i.e. Islam is what connects all muslims,dude!
While contemplating the pic below, do consider the inevitable fact
that islam (in any meaningful form) doesn't approve of our most basic
universal Human Rights! That's the main pillar of the problem, dude!
So those muslims who don't fit in either category need to face Erdogan,
OIC and Human Rights violating Sharia - or admit they are no real
muslims.
Klevius comment: I for one cannot see the slightest space for
political islam in a democratic society based on the belief in Human
Rights. Can you?
What is it you should see behind the islamofascist smile? 1400 years of Koranic genocides and rapetivism?
Islam is an evil ideology, and this evilness is directly connected to its violent and totalitarian origin. And the sooner the world gets its facts right about islam (instead of the all time ongoing and misleading islam propaganda fueled by oil money, racism and sexism) the sooner islam induced criminality/atrocities will decrease in a world with already enough atrocities without islam.