No aid for the Kurds?

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We quickly want to aid the Syrian rebels but why not the Kurds who have a history of being a willing support?

Kurds Issue Dramatic Call to Arms as Fresh ISIS Massacre Looms - Latest News Briefs - Arutz Sheva

 

[blue_ladybug]

We quickly want to aid the Syrian rebels but why not the Kurds who have a history of being a willing support?

Kurds Issue Dramatic Call to Arms as Fresh ISIS Massacre Looms - Latest News Briefs - Arutz Sheva

Maybe because the USA (Ohbummer) wants to alienate any peaceful allies we have left who could help us against ISIS. just sayin'... JMO :/

 

[biscuit]

Because of politics!!! and not to offend the Sunnis who represent 85-90% of the Muslims in the region or Middle East. Even though Syria is primarily Sunni, the arms to rebels are to fight ISIS in Syria.

 

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Because of politics!!! and not to offend the Sunnis who represent 85-90% of the Muslims in the region or Middle East. Even though Syria is primarily Sunni, the arms to rebels are to fight ISIS in Syria.

I thought Syria is essentially Shia and allies with Iran who also is Shiite.

 

[biscuit]

I thought Syria is essentially Shia and allies with Iran who also is Shiite.

Actually the Sunni is the larger religious group but the Shia/Alawites run the country.

64-74% Sunnis
13-21% Shias/Alawites
10-15% Christians

 

[biscuit]

crossnote: source reference from Wikipedia, updated August 2014

 

[biscuit]

[h=1]Religion in Syria[/h]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Membership of a religious community in Syria is ordinarily determined by birth. Based on statistical analyses from 2006, Muslims were estimated as constituting 87% to 90% (depending on whether Druze were included or not)[SUP][1][/SUP] of the total population, although their proportion was possibly greater and was certainly growing. The Muslim birthrate reportedly was higher than that of the minorities, and proportionately fewer Muslims were emigrates. Of the Syrian population, 74 to 64%[SUP][1][/SUP] were Sunnis (including Sufis[SUP][2][/SUP]), whereas 13 to 21% were Shias, either Alawites (18.0%) from which about 2% are called Mershdis and they are the followers of Sulayman al-Murshid, Twelvers (3%), or Ismailis (0.1%).[SUP][1][/SUP] 5% wereDruze,[SUP][1][/SUP] while the remaining 10-15% were Christians.[SUP][1][/SUP] Not all the Sunnis are Arabs. Most of the Kurds, who make up 9% of the population[SUP][3][/SUP] are officially Sunni, as are theTurkmens who encompass 1%.

 

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If I add up the lower stats of the above figures the Christians may be 1% not ten.

 

[biscuit]

If I add up the lower stats of the above figures the Christians may be 1% not ten.

Wikipedia isn't exactly the best source but somewhat reliable. Below is an abbreviated source from the BBC. In my research from the various sources, 10% for Christians in Syrian is consistent.

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[h=1]Syria's beleaguered Christians[/h]

Christians make up about 10% of Syria's 22 million people
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Syria's Christian community is one of the oldest in the world, going back two millennia.
The apostle Paul is said to have been converted on the road to Damascus, while some Christians from the town of Maaloula can still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus.
Near the northern city of Aleppo is the Church of St Simeon Stylites, who spent decades on top of a stone pillar to demonstrate his faith, while in the mountains west of Homs is the castle of Krak des Chevaliers, which was a fortress for the Knights Hospitaller during the Crusades.
Christians are believed to have constituted about 30% of the Syrian population as recently as the 1920s. Today, they make up about 10% of Syria's 22 million people.