Barack Obama’s moderate Syrian Muslims burned churches in the Syrian town of Kessab and desecrated several Christian graves.
A broken cross lies on a desecrated grave in Kessab’s Armenian cemetery Photo: Ruth Sherlock/The Telegraph
The moderate Muslim group was given orders to use the offensive to show themselves as allies of the West.
The Telegraph reported, via Jihad Watch:
Rain seeped into the tombs through shattered flagstones. Nearby, marble crosses lay in pieces. Plastic flowers, once lovingly placed on a grave, were torn and stamped into the earth.
Beside the desecrated graveyard in the Syrian town of Kessab stood the Holy Trinity Armenian Evangelical church. Its library, pews and altar had all been burned by arsonists.
The perpetrators had shown both purpose and glee in their destruction of Christian sites in this ancient Armenian town. Statues were riddled with bullets and Islamist slogans were scrawled across the walls of homes and shops.
Once a haven from Syria’s civil war, nestled in the hills of Latakia province, Kessab gained international fame when it was captured by rebels last spring in a surprise offensive that forced the town’s 2,500 Armenian Christians to flee.
Turkey was widely accused of helping the insurgents to capture Kessab, despite the participation in the attack of Jabhat al-Nusra, an affiliate of al-Qaeda.
@GatesofVienna Kessab Syrian Christian historical town looted, destroyed churches, homes and GRAVES "Ghouls" pic.twitter.com/Do3sjN78GR
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