By Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison Excerpt: Americans are being taxed to support jihadist groups in Syria who kill Christians. Thats the inescapable conclusion brought to us in Washington by a delegation of Syrian Christians. Sponsored by the Westminster Institute, the Syrian Christian group is making the rounds in the nations capital, trying to get U.S. Government officials to listen to their plight. The Syrian Christian delegation is itself a very ecumenical group. Catholics, Orthodox, and Evangelical Christians have not given up their ties to their own faith communities. Nor have they resolved all theological differences. But they have come together in what some have called an ecumenism of the trenches. Subjected to murderous attacks by jihadists, these Christians are defending themselves. And they are also speaking out for their moderate Muslim neighbors. The Syrian Christians report having lived -- however precariously -- in this turbulent Middle East region for centuries. Their communities -- many of them -- date from the earliest spread of the Gospel. Let us not forget that Saul of Tarsus was headed to Damascus to kill the Christians there when he was cast down from his horse by a vision from Heaven. The story is told in the Book of Acts: >snip< What the Syrian Christians are asking of us is not military intervention on their side. They dont ask us for money. They never mentioned foreign aid or even humanitarian assistance. All they ask is that the United States of America stop aiding the Syrian persecutors. Secretary John Kerry is bragging that the U.S. will send another$380 million in U.S. aid to the anti-Assad fighters in Syria. We will have to borrow this money from China to give it to jihadists in Syria. But the Syrian Christians deny that those fighters are even Syrian. They come, the delegation tells us, from outside Syria, funded by and incited by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey. Or so they tell us. americanthinker/2014/01/obama_syria_policy_paying_the_persecutors.html
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:06:14 +0000