Syria: Al-Qaeda seizes Christian village, smashes Mary statue, threatens villagers to convert to Islam

The latest antics of the people we will be aiding militarily in Syria. "Syria crisis: al-Qaeda seizes village that still speaks the ancient language of Christ," by Ruth Sherlock and Magdy Samaan in the Telegraph, September 5 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

A branch of al-Qaeda fighting in the Syrian civil war has seized one of the few remaining villages where the original language of Christ is still spoken, residents say. Fighting raged through the picturesque mountain village of Maaloula, near Damascus, on Thursday, as the regime launched a counter-attack against the rebels.

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