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Syria: Human rights groups say jihadis are telling Christians ‘you’re next’

Humanitarian groups helping persecuted Christians shared reports this week of Islamic extremists attacking and threatening the remaining Christian minority in Syria, warning they were “next” after the elimination of Alawite Shia Muslims.

Syria experienced a sudden eruption of violence against Alawites in its western coastal territories this weekend, attacks described as “revenge” against the minority for perceived support of ousted dictator Bashar Assad. Assad and his family are Alawites, a minority sect within Shia Islam, and Sunni jihadists in the country consider all who share that identity opposed to their goals.

Those jihadists have been emboldened by Assad’s ouster in December, which occurred after the Al Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a massively successful conquest campaign in late November 2024.

The HTS government, led by top jihadi Ahmed al-Sharaa, claimed on Thursday that a group of Assad sympathizers launched attacks against their forces in Latakia governate, an Alawite stronghold. Sharaa’s regime admitted to launching an “operation” against the alleged fighters, but claimed to avoid any civilian casualties. 

The regime ultimately admitted to widespread evidence of such atrocities and promised to establish a “committee” to investigate them. On Tuesday, they claimed to have arrested four people for violence that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a monitor group, documented had killed about 1,500 people and counting, hundreds of them confirmed civilians.

Widespread reports indicated that unknown jihadist parties massacred entire Alawite families in their homes and a drone strike campaign against rural Alawite communities. SOHR described the violence as “the bloodiest revenge ever since the fall of Al-Assad regime.”

While the attacks have overwhelmingly targeted Alawites, some reports indicate that Christians have also suffered threats and attacks. Under Assad, Christians were allowed to maintain churches and worship so long as they did not challenge Assad politically; the regime imprisoned and eliminated many Christian political dissidents, but did not persecute Christianity itself. 

As a result, the same Sunni jihadists who view Alawites as irredeemably pro-Assad distrust Christian communities and see them unfit to integrate into the fabric of the country, despite Christianity’s much more ancient presence in the country than Islam.

 

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Aliza Circle 21:45 14.03.2025
That how sick Hamas are. When would the earth swallow them?
Grazia Sher 20:11 14.03.2025
Rather than the brutal Roman Empire, that enslaved Judea and Samaria, and took thousands of Jews , to Rome , as slaves . . But the Catholic Church, and others, have blood on their hands even today.
Grazia Sher 20:09 14.03.2025
Rather than the brutal Roman Empire, that enslave Judea and Samaria, and too thousands of Jews , to Rome , as sla
Grazia Sher 20:07 14.03.2025
What you convenientforfey to mention,, is the Christian persecution , burning, expulsions of Jews., after stealing all their belongings, and blaming them for the killing of Christ, rather than Romans
Lucy Shiner 17:35 14.03.2025
N. America can’t say been persecuted not at all ! USA churches lost the way for profit apostasy is rigging calls the bad good and the good bad there’s fewer who not focus on Jesus not on politics !
[Anonymous] 17:25 14.03.2025
They are having their day! When Jesus returns as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, they die!
Lucy Shiner 16:56 14.03.2025
Israel being persecuted by thy neighbors for many reasons since GOD given the land to them See? N. Can’t saying be persecuted not at all !!
Lucy Shiner 16:53 14.03.2025
Believers targeted since Jesus Christ it’s not new but the ones In Middle East Africa are who suffer for their faith in Christ western don’t suffer not life change at all same old prejudice pride
Soniya Christova 16:21 14.03.2025
Islamists are Devil's ruled &ungodly corrupted deceitful perverted genocidial war criminals against humankind mainly against God's own chosen holy nation. Israel&christians believers in God of Israel
Rona Scott 15:44 14.03.2025
Jews and Christians have been persecuted for centuries. The Saturday and Sunday people.
Troy Allison 21:46 13.03.2025
Christianity and Judeaism will suffer persecution at the hands of of Islam so long as Islam is allowed to exist in even the most minute numbers...we must eliminate their majority.
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