The real situation facing Christians in Syria following the fall of Assad
The optimistic view circulating (about Christians in Syria following the fall of Assad) does not correspond to the facts on the ground. See the link below, for example.
“Christians in the new ‘Liberated Syria’ already being targeted…. The West celebrates Assad’s rule collapsing full well knowing what this meant for Christians…. Where is the world wide outrage?? Oh wait, it’s Christians and we’re expendable.”.
See here https://x.com/mickamiousg/status/1866045650179166263?s=46
Given the nature of the rebel groups involved, that Christians and other minorities face an extremely perilous situation in the new Syria is easy to see and expect. Over the course of some 50 years at least, the West has consistently tended to be over-optimistic, to say the least, imagining on the basis of nothing more than wishful thinking that the fall of these autocratic regimes in the Middle East will somehow translate into political progress.
Just because Assad was and is a genocidal monster does not of course mean that what will now follow in Syria is going to be better, whether for Christians or Syrians as a whole. Indeed, I think it’s conventional wisdom that Christians did reasonably well under Assad and are likely to fare much worse under a regime that is likely to be dominated by Salafist-Islamist rebels supported by a Turkey that is deeply hostile to Western powers and Western Christianity.
The areas controlled by the Kurdish rebels will be friendlier to Christians. But the Kurds are going to be under tremendous pressure from the HTS rebel group (the Islamists) and the Turks who hate the Kurds and are actively fighting them.
Lord have mercy on Syria and the Christian community there.
Dr Timothy Shah
Timothy Samuel Shah, Ph.D.
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Center for Shared Civilizational Values
Distinguished Research Scholar in Politics
University of Dallas
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