Don’t rush to claim Syria’s Christians are safe – we’re dealing with Islamists in a volatile situation
“Syria is free,” according to Washington Post columnist Joe Rogin. “The rebels won. The people liberated themselves from tyranny,” he went on. While the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad is finally over, this does not mean his replacements are necessarily interested in the kind of “freedom” you and I would recognise as such. Assad’s Iran-
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