most people don't care about either Muslims or Christians in Syria or something

[piichinu]

Why does it feel like nobody cares about the Christians
People act like they don't exist and it's a Muslim only country

Like on tumblr people will say things like "help Muslim Syrians" and just totally neglect the fact that Christians exist and have been persecuted by them long before the war and ISIS only made their situation worse

And this is how I answered my own question but I'd like to know what other people think.

It just really bugs me probably more than most people because as someone from a Christian family in Syria people will say things like...in school for example they'll try to guilt us about the situation there (Catholic school amirite) and tell us we should care for the Muslims in Syria and then add on the extra explanation on how it's a religion of peace which I've heard about a million times and I get it

Then they totally ignore all the orthodox, Maronite Catholics (that me), and any other Christian sect when they are teaching us about the W A R in Syria in R E L I G I O N class and to me it just feels like they don't care. They don't care about the Christians OR the Muslims in Syria. What they DO care about is telling everyone that they think Islam is a good religion and preserving an image of "acceptance" for themselves. christians are just ignored BC it's natural for everyone here to love them. why wouldn't they educate us on EVERY group in Syria that's being murdered if we're discussing the issues of the country in its entirety? Instead of just one?

I don't think it's very fair how the existence of Christians is ignored just because of people's selfish motives. I've had people go up to me and say I can't be Catholic because Syrian Catholics don't exist. Or ask me if I'm Muslim because I'm Syrian. And I think this ignorance is a direct result of what I just explained before. I mean yeah I know some people actually do care, but when it's information like that being spread to a lot of people (a school) it definitely feels like their intentions are something else.

Sry I like was reading articles about various landmarks that have been destroyed that I've been to and loved a lot so I'm just a little bitter rn.

Anyway tl;dr

Erasure of Christian persecution in Syria and emphasis on teaching that Islam is a religion of peace = I don't care about anyone there I just want to look good and moral.

I have no idea if this makes sense but it's just how I feel as someone viewing this as a third party kinda.

 

[moonford]

Is this a bait thread? Feels like it is...

I honestly can't read this correctly.

 

[Antonio]

most people don't care about either Muslims or Christians in Syria or something

wow ok

 

[piichinu]

i didnt know what to title it.......

 

[Red Cat]

If you ask people in the western part of the world which is a bigger problem between radical Islam and Islamophobia, most of them will probably say Islamophobia because discrimination against Muslims is common and widespread while terrorist attacks are relatively rare and isolated. If you ask people in the Middle East which is worse, most of them will probably say radical Islam since terrorist attacks are much more frequent and discrimination against Muslims isn't as much of a factor when the majority of the population is Muslim. That's why I feel like people who are more concerned about fighting a war on Islamophobia on the internet than about the threat of radical Islam are really misguided. Yeah, in the West defacing mosques and calling Muslims slurs isn't cool, but in the Middle East, religious discrimination takes much more brutal forms as ISIS clearly shows. I don't like Christianity, but at least its extremists are treated as such in countries where most of the population is Christian. Majority Muslim countries seem to tolerate and even glorify their extremists and thus Christians living in those areas have to fear for their lives. Not all religious discrimination is equal, so I am more sympathetic to Christians living the Middle East than Muslims. I understand that many Muslims are victims of radical Islamic violence, but it's harder to feel sorry for them when it's their own religion which is the root of the violence against them.