Shortly before Christmas, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) renewed its appeal to German politicians and the media to take seriously the threat posed by political Islam, especially to Christian communities, Alawites/Alevis, Druze, Yazidis, Bahá’ís, Mandaeans, and Jews. “Attacks on Jews in Australia, on US soldiers in Syria, the mass abduction of children in Nigeria, and a planned attack on a Christmas market in Bavaria show that Islamism poses a real danger to Christians, religious minorities, and the peaceful coexistence of different ethnic and religious communities,” warned Dr. Kamal Sido, the STP’s Middle East expert, today in Göttingen. “The downplaying of political Islam and the dangers posed by radical Islamists – by the US president and large sections of German politics and media – is irresponsible. It is not only Christian communities that are affected, but freedom of belief and expression as a whole.”
The US leadership endangered the lives of its own soldiers by allowing them to be accompanied by fighters from the so-called Syrian Army in Palmyra, central Syria, on December 14. A member of this “army” shot at US soldiers and other personnel. “The US is talking about an IS attack in order to protect the new Islamist regime in Syria. Yet the shooter belonged to precisely this regime. An estimated 75 percent of the new Syrian security forces under Al-Sharaa previously fought in the ranks of IS or other Sunni Islamist militias,” Sido explained.
“These fighters did not simply abandon their ideology after taking power. They continue to be supported by the Islamist rulers of Turkey and the Emirate of Qatar and act in the interests of these Sunni Islamists,” Sido reminded. “The West’s real allies in Syria are not part of the Islamist regime in Damascus. They are Kurds, Alawites, Druze, and Arab Sunni democrats. These groups are fighting for the separation of state and religion and for freedom of belief and expression. They are thus the only hope for the few Christians in the Middle East who have not yet been displaced by Islamists—and for those who long to return to their homeland.”
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