Syria: Christian Family Beheaded, Christians Attacked At Funeral

SYRIA: CHRISTIAN FAMILY BEHEADED, CHRISTIANS ATTACKED AT FUNERAL

Jihad Watch
August 30, 2012 Thursday 9:47 AM EST

“Armed gangs of jihadists have begun to sow terror..” And Obama is
backing them. “ASIA/SYRIA – Bomb at a funeral, a family beheaded:
Christians and Druzes targeted in Damascus,” from Agenzia Fides,
August 29 (thanks to Lachlan):

Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – A terrorist attack hit innocent Christian
faithful and innocent Druzes in the area of Jaramana, a suburb
of Damascus: yesterday, August 28, at 2 pm, a bomb in a car was
detonated while a crowd of faithful, families, elderly people, women
and children, were heading to the cemetery to bury two young people.

The two had died the day before, on August 27, also victims of an IED.

As the crowd, after the funeral, was accompanying the deceased to
the burial, a taxi exploded causing 12 deaths (according to other
sources 27), including 5 children, and injuring more than 50 people. In
Jarmana about 600 thousand people live, mostly religious minorities:
there are 250 thousand Christians (Assyrians, Armenians, Chaldeans,
Melkites, Orthodox and other denominations), as well as Druzes and
about 120 thousand Iraqi refugees, who fled to Syria in past years.

As reported by Fides sources in Damascus, the Christians in the
suburbs of Jaramana (south-west of Damascus) and Zamalka (South-East
of the city) are under pressure from armed groups jiahdisti and are
terrified. Today in Zamalka a family of Armenian Christians was found
murdered, and all members of the family horribly decapitated. The
execution brings to mind the work of radical Islamist Salafis.

These acts, which affect innocent people, have generated anger and
confusion in the Christian community. A leader of the Latin Catholic
community of Damascus, who requested anonymity, told Fides: “These
are terrorist acts: we do not know who is behind, some are groups
that want to destroy Syria. Armed gangs of jihadists have begun to
sow terror. The point is that even in the West, Christians are often
portrayed as friends of the regime or collaborators of the repression,
but it is not true. Christians are with the Syrian people and just want
peace. But this propaganda gives terrorist groups, infiltrators among
the rebels, a pretext to attack us.” (PA) (Agenzia Fides 29/08/2012)

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress