Geagea Condemns Syria Church Attacks, Urges 'Deterring Extremist Groups'

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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea strongly condemned the attack on two churches in Syria on Thursday evening, calling on the Free Syrian Army to “deter extremist groups.”

"These extremists harm Christians and Muslims alike and are offensive to the values on which the Syrian revolution was based,” Geagea said in a released statement.

He explained: “These attacks are against the principles of freedom, pluralism, equality, democracy and tolerance.”

The LF leader warned that extremist groups are a danger to the Syrian revolution.

"We strongly urge the Syrian National Coalition and the FSA to draw an end to their dangers and stop their abuses against the revolution, Christians, Muslims and all the freemen of Syria.”

Jihadist fighters linked to al-Qaida set fire to statues and crosses inside churches in northern Syria Thursday and destroyed a cross atop the clock tower of one of them.

Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) entered the Greek Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation in the northern city of Raqa and torched the religious furnishings inside.

They did the same thing at the Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs, and also destroyed a cross atop its clock tower, replacing it with the ISIL flag.

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Thumb inside_manz 26 September 2013, 23:15

So this rodent is now saying he's against Al-Qeada and at the same time he's against HA for trying to prevent Al-Qeada from doing the same thing to Lebanon????
Can someone please jail this guy again. This time for life.

Thumb inside_manz 26 September 2013, 23:29

how so? Because I'm questioning this war-mongers logic??
Whats sick is Lebanese idiots who cry to be liberal moderates and at the same time cheer when these Al-Qeada rats be-head members of the SAA...Thats sick Samy

Thumb inside_manz 26 September 2013, 23:38

Al-Qeada pro Assad?? who are they?? where are they located? whats the name of their group...even CNN and your dirty Saudi networks wont dare say something that stupid.
Do you even know whats going on in Syria? Do you know anything at all??
Like come on, dont make it so easy for me to make fun of you.

Thumb inside_manz 26 September 2013, 23:44

Hey Einstien M11er. Tell us more facts about the Pro-Assad Al Qeada. Im truly interested

Thumb benzona 26 September 2013, 23:45

lol

Thumb inside_manz 26 September 2013, 23:47

@texas
for once i sort of agree with you. But i doubt Syira will turn out to be like Egypt or Turkey and I also doubt Assad will step aside. But your right about FSA and about how Saudi paid in the billions for a military coup in egypt

Thumb inside_manz 26 September 2013, 23:49

M11er are you in grade school?

Thumb benzona 26 September 2013, 23:57

Bakkeer!

Missing peace 27 September 2013, 00:07

M11 that is why you should let this sick mind bark alone he'll get tired in the end.... i stopped addressing his posts full of... nothing.

Thumb benzona 26 September 2013, 23:50

الله اكبر

May the terrorists and assassins Bachar and Hassan remember, because they're doing the worst of the worst. Killing souls to remain in power.

May God give us the strength to annihilate the forces of evil soon.

Thumb inside_manz 26 September 2013, 23:52

May God give benzona the wisdom never to post anything again, Amen.

Thumb inside_manz 26 September 2013, 23:55

Al Nusra and FSA are attacking each other, fighting over stolen bounty left by Syrian citizens as they flee their country from these rats you support. They fight each other because their idiots.

Thumb inside_manz 26 September 2013, 23:58

The tool who use the term "Pro-Assad Al-Qeada" is calling me brainless.
how cute

Thumb inside_manz 27 September 2013, 00:02

@texas
I like how you pointed out the fact that 60% of the SAA are sunni. Which means that this cant be a revolt based on sectarian issues like some love to claim. It also means that he Assad really did not have the majority of support, dont you think he wouldve been gone along time ago?

Thumb inside_manz 27 September 2013, 00:18

@texas
I just thumbed you up twice and thats a stretch for me to do.
Im still waiting for to you to speak on the bigger picture here. Why is this happening?? What is the US/Saudi and rest gaining from supporting Al-Qeada in Syria?

Thumb inside_manz 27 September 2013, 00:20

Why do they want Assad out soooo badly?? Do they care about the will of the Syrian people like they did for the Iraqis?? What's their goal?

Thumb inside_manz 27 September 2013, 00:30

@texas
thats the reason Saudi has invested billions??? just to make their people fear an uprising in Saudi???....come on man???
what about US interests, Israel's interest?? You dont think anything fishy about their intentions?

Thumb inside_manz 27 September 2013, 00:57

So based on what you just wrote which is almost completely accurate, dont you think it was a wise move for HA to get involved preventing these dirty takfiris from dragging this fighting to lebanon?? And if the US doesnt like Al-Qeada at all, they should be praising HA and Assad for fighting them instead of sanctioning, condemning and threatening them with intervention.

Thumb inside_manz 27 September 2013, 02:16

I will stop you there. I am christian and i live in the Daheye..I will tell you that maybe at their creation they wanted an Islamic state but that ship has sailed. HA are not stupid, they know they cant have that and they are nothing close to al qeada. Your smart Texas, dnt be fooled by the US media. And I dont ever recall an instance where HA has beheaded anyone.
And where was the army the whole 18yrs when the south was being occupied?? Who else defended lebanon??? The South Lebanese Army with General Hadad?

Thumb inside_manz 27 September 2013, 03:50

I think you mean the US barracks that was blown up killing 241 US marines stationed in Lebanon. Is that what your referring to???
The US "peace-keepers" right?? The same peace keepers who allowed Israel to carry out their daily bombings right? Those peace keepers who ended up fleeing the country right after??
Well US learned their lesson that day. Never occupy Lebanon

Thumb inside_manz 27 September 2013, 03:51

Yes, I was praising the army. I love the army. But where were they during the whole Israeli occupation??? Can you tell me?

Thumb inside_manz 27 September 2013, 03:54

@lebanonforever aka anal astronaut
go tile the Mediterranean

Thumb inside_manz 27 September 2013, 04:00

@texas
your problem is you think America is a beacon of democracy. you think the give a crap about you or the Syrian people, hell even their own citizens??? you think the neo-cons care??
smarten-up

Default-user-icon dddd (Guest) 27 September 2013, 10:12

the islam image has always been tarnished! their majority cant tolerate christians or anyone else! and they attack u and kill u just because u r different they say its a religion of peace and love while if u read the coran you will see revenge and annihilation and weird verses about sex and women, and this is due of lack of understanding and being inferior to others. islam=violence and non tolerance otherwise we would not see what happened to christians in the arab world.. most of muslim feel inferior to christians and try to imitate them. I hope christians will leave the middle east so you see how muslims will eat each others guts..
takhallof 3al ekher! ou mech radyin bel massi7e! yserelkon ya moutakhalifine! P.S: this is for extremist islam only
those are known facts,

Thumb jabal10452 27 September 2013, 10:34

Syria: Deepening the divisions among Syria's anti-government fighters, 11 key rebel groups issued a statement breaking with Syria's more moderate opposition leaders in exile. "We found it was time to announce publicly and clearly what we are after, which is Shariah law for the country and to convey a message to the opposition coalition that it has been three years and they have never done any good for the Syrian uprising and the people suffering inside," an activist close to the leadership of one such rebel group told the New York Times.
Source: Foreign Policy Magazine.

Thumb Dr.I.Mughniyeh_theheadless 27 September 2013, 16:08

I look at what these extremist terrorists are doing and try to find one thing that our Syrian regime and it's tools haven't already done to our Lebanese brethren and in spades over the last thirty five odd years.

Missing VINCENT 27 September 2013, 23:03

Well said.

Missing VINCENT 27 September 2013, 22:58

Truly there is no "Moderate Islam" or "Moderate Muslims". Neither "Moderate Islam" nor "Moderate Muslims" can exist in the vacuum/void created by true Islam which is the garden variety radical, extremist and criminal minded Islam that has been practiced for hundreds of years. It is when these criminals are removed from the religious scene that the world would acknowledge "Moderate Islam". These are the same sick bastard criminals that killed 1.5 million Christian Armenians plus Assyrians, Kildanis (Chaldeans) and Greeks and would not hesitate to kill all Christians in the Middle East. These are the same Muslims who dictate and subjugate the rest to their whims and view of Islam. On a positive note, God bless Egypt, and may be Iraq needs a "Diet/light Saddam Hussein" without the mass murders, hatred towards the other sects/races, etc. There are enough future moderates that can wipe this Earth clean of these criminals surviving under the false light of religion.

Default-user-icon Muzay Alikanto (Guest) 28 September 2013, 00:39

Someone must have slapped Dr. Arreet 7akeh out of his coma.