Genocide in Syria wipes out the last surviving heirs of European civilisation

As the West postures as the global guardian of human rights and democracy, it turns a blind eye – or worse, lends direct support – to the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Christians, Alawites, and Druze in Syria.

The recent Western-endorsed “political transition” has effectively handed over power to radical jihadists, who are now purging the very communities that have lived in the Levant for millennia. What we are witnessing is nothing short of a genocide, a methodical destruction of entire peoples whose only crime is existing outside the rigid framework of Sunni fundamentalism.

For over a decade, Western policymakers, intoxicated by their obsession with regime change, have destabilised Syria under the pretext of “democracy promotion”. The outcome? A shattered country where radical Islamist factions, backed by Turkey, Qatar, and Western intelligence networks, now hold power.

Of course, the so-called “moderate rebels” have revealed their true nature, cut from the same ideological cloth as ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Yet, instead of condemning this jihadist resurgence, Western governments and media have celebrated it as a victory for freedom.

In reality, this transition has opened the floodgates for mass persecution. In areas now controlled by these Islamist factions, Christians, Alawites, and Druze face execution, forced conversions, and the destruction of their churches and shrines.

Towns that were once bastions of coexistence – like Maaloula, Saidnaya, and Suqaylabiyah – are now targets for extermination. The very people who refused to bend the knee to Salafist terror are now being hunted down with Western complicity.

However, this genocide is not just a Middle Eastern tragedy. It is a European one too. The Christians of Syria and the Levant have, for centuries, identified as Rum (meaning “Roman”) and Antiochian Greeks – heirs to Byzantium, Hellenistic culture, and European civilisation.

These are not foreigners to us; they are our kin, a living extension of European identity in the Near East. They are descendants of a heritage that stretches back to Constantinople, the beating heart of European civilisation before it was choked by Ottoman blades.

They call themselves “Rum” not because they hail from Italy but because they embody the Eastern Roman legacy, the Orthodox soul of a Europe that once spanned the Mediterranean. Their churches dot the Levant, their liturgy hums in Greek and Aramaic, their traditions are a living thread to our own cultural tapestry.

Yet here they are, butchered by fanatics who see their crosses as targets, while Europe sips espresso and debates sanctions on Russia only. Do we realise that the destruction of these communities is not merely an attack on religious minorities, but a deliberate erasure of Europe’s cultural and spiritual footprint in the region?

Where is the European Union? Where are the Christian leaders of the West? Silent. Or to be honest, worse than silent: they are endorsing the very forces responsible. Brussels, London, and Washington shed crocodile tears over “human rights” while backing the jihadists who desecrate the ancient churches of Syria, that have stood for over a thousand years.

At the heart of this carnage is Turkey, the ever-ambitious heir to the Ottoman Empire, whose hands are stained with the blood of Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians from past genocides.

Ankara has long harboured plans to reshape northern Syria, flooding it with loyalist Islamist mercenaries while driving out native Christians, Alawites, and Kurds. Erdogan’s expansionist vision is no secret. He envisions a Sunni caliphate stretching from Anatolia into the Arab world, one where non-Muslims and heterodox Muslims have no place.

And yet the EU continues to appease Erdogan, funnelling billions into his war machine under the guise of “refugee agreements”. The West, instead of sanctioning Turkey for its complicity in jihadist expansionism, rewards it with strategic concessions. It is a grotesque betrayal, not just of Syria’s minorities, but of Europe’s own geopolitical and historical interests.

This is not just another war in the Middle East. It is a civilisational struggle, one where the survival of the last European Christians in the Near East is at stake. Europe must awaken from its slumber and recognise that this is our fight too.

If we continue to allow jihadi-sympathisers and Sunni imperialists to dictate Syria’s fate, we will soon find that the last Rum Christians of the East have vanished, their churches reduced to rubble, their heritage erased.

History will not forgive those who stand idle while a jihadist regime, propped up by the very governments that claim to uphold democracy, commits ethnic cleansing under our watch. If the West truly stands for human rights, let it prove it now. Not with empty words, but with action. The time for silence is over.