Flemish Father Daniël Maes lives in a sixth century monastery in Syria, not far from Damascus. The Ron Paul Institute recently reproduced an interview he gave last February, and it offers a very different picture of the situation in Syria from what we’ve gotten from the media and other sources.
“The idea that a popular uprising took place against President Assad is completely false. I’ve been in Qara since 2010 and I have seen with my own eyes how agitators from outside Syria organized protests against the government and recruited young people.”
This dovetails nicely with reports that George Soros has been behind the attacks in Syria, funding groups to sew discord and generate rebellion against the government.
The Father continues:
“Before the war, this was a harmonious country: a secular state in which different religious communities lived side by side peacefully. There was hardly any poverty, education was free, and health care was good. It was only not possible to freely express your political views. But most people did not care about that.”
As mentioned, we should not conclude that Syria was or is a Jeffersonian paradise complete with unfettered freedom of speech, yet it was also nothing like it has been portrayed.
“When thousands of terrorists settled in Qara, we became afraid for our lives. They came from the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, Europe, Turkey, Libya, there were many Chechens. They formed a foreign occupation force, all allied to al-Qaeda and other terrorists. Armed to the teeth by the West and their allies with the intention to act against us, they literally said: “This country belongs to us now.” Often, they were drugged, they fought each other, in the evening they fired randomly. We had to hide in the crypts of the monastery for a long time. When the Syrian army chased them away, everybody was happy: the Syrian citizens because they hate the foreign rebels, and we because peace had returned.”
What we have here is the claim that Assad protected religious minorities and the peace, and that foreign invaders from predominantly Sunni nations are the true aggressors. Once again, this priest paints a very different picture from what we’ve been told as follows.
“Do you not know that the media coverage on Syria is the biggest media lie of our time? They have sold pure nonsense about Assad. It was actually the rebels who plundered and killed. Do you think that the Syrian people are stupid? Do you think those people were forced to cheer for Assad and Putin? It is the Americans who have a hand in all of this, for pipelines and natural resources in this region and to thwart Putin.”
“Saudi Arabia and Qatar want to establish a Sunni state in Syria, without religious freedom. Therefore, Assad must go. You know, when the Syrian army was preparing for the battle in Aleppo, Muslim soldiers came to me to be blessed. Between ordinary Muslims and Christians, there is no problem. It is those radical Islamic, Western-backed rebels who want to massacre us. They are all al Qaeda and IS. There are not any moderate fighters anymore.”
This is a pattern we’ve unfortunately seen before — secular states with nominally Muslim leaders such as Libya and Iraq that were supportive of religious diversity turned violent by outside forces.
This closing remark is interesting to consider in the light of what has happened recently, recalling that this comment was made in February.
“I am happy with Trump. He sees what every normal person understands: That the United States should stop undermining countries which possess natural resources. The Americans’ attempt to impose a unipolar world is the biggest problem. Trump understands that radical Islam is a bigger threat than Russia.
“What do I care whether he occasionally takes off his pants? If Trump practices geopolitics the way he has promised to do so, then the future looks bright. Then it will become similar to Putin’s approach. And hopefully then, there will be a solution for Syria, and peace will return.”
This is all very similar to what Ron Paul has said: President Assad did not attack his own people.
The question now is what are we to do with this information?
Source: Ron Paul Institute
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