Shocking Images: Hezbollah and Christian Artifacts

Hezbollah (the organization whose legitimate resistance to Israeli imperialism has earned it classification as a "terrorist organization") has been fighting, alongside the Syrian Army, against ISIS in Syria.

The images below chronicle their shocking treatment of Christian artifacts that they discovered in churches and Christian homes ruined by the war in Syria.

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In the interests of being fair and balanced, I really wanted to include some images of what ISIS does to Christians in Syria and Iraq.

But posting a picture of a six year old boy lying in a pool of blood with his head separated from his body would probably have been against the terms of service.

Muslims revere Jesus as a prophet.. I have heard ISIS soldiers say things like "praise be to him" after uttering his name. It is strange that ISIS destroys Christian artifacts, considering that Islam, Judiasm, and Christianity ultimately all believe in the same god.

It's a terrorist organization with Christian members.

I think Hezbollah also has some Christian members...

Anyways the guy in the first photo doesn't look Lebanese to me at all.

They have to pay their respects to Comandante Jesus.

How Libanese are supposed to look like ?

There´s a big bunch of "arabs" down here where I live, most are Libanese or from very close Libanese ascent and they don´t look "arab" to me, hell, half of them are blond.

Exactly. They're supposed to look Turkish-like. But the guy in the first pic looks like a Hazara. Then again might be one of those zealot Shias from Afghanistan who has joined Hezbollah.

How Turkish are supposed to look like ? or how are Pakistanis are supposed to look like ?

Why do you dislike Hezbollah, GazaAli? Hasn't the organization been invaluable to the Palestinian cause?

Hezbollah has Christian members, that's news to me. I new the PLO did but I think the PLO was Arab-nationalist in their ideology and Hezbollah is Islamist, though maybe some Christians join the group because they think it's a Lebanese patriotic group and I think all the Christian militias (and all the other militias except Hezbollah) disarmed after the civil war in Lebanon so they don't have many options.

Hezbollah is apparently more humane than ISIS, but that really ain't saying much.

Dumb idiots think that Muslims hate all things Christian and whatever Christians relate to.

Muslims follow all of that Christian stuff too because Islam is not a new separate religion, its the continuation of Christianity which is the continuation of Judaism.

Of course just like Jews think all that Jesus stuff that came about is nonsense, Christians believe all that Mohammed stuff is nonsense.

But to a Mulism, Islam is from the very beginning (Judaism), continues on with Jesus (Christianity), and keeps going with Mohammed.

Doesn't ISIS destroy Muslim artifacts too? They also take the artifacts and sell them at high class auctions all around the world.

@Aljosa23: I wouldn't be surprised if they did. I agree that Hezbollah should be considered a terrorist group, but they aren't as savage as ISIS.

Generally speaking Turkish and Iranian people are supposed to have whiter skin, lighter brown hair and different face structure compared to Arabs. In fact old Arabs had much browner skin tone. Hazaras have tinier eyes not exactly Chinese or Japanese tiny, but like Tajik tiny.

Actually no, it hasn't. Every now and then it likes to capitalize on the sensationalism that surrounds the cause by talking about the emancipation of Jerusalem and the annihilation of Israel. That's mostly it. Even when it does provide tangible support, it usually goes to insurgent movements like Hamas for political reasons. What it comes down to is that Hezbollah hurts the Palestinian cause on the rare occasion that it gets palpably involved.

But my animosity towards Hezbollah stems from the fact that it continues to hold the Lebanese state as a hostage, subject to the whims of the mullahs in Tehran. Furthermore, Hezbollah has no right being in Syria where it buttresses a brutal regime and consolidates Iranian influence. The same goes for it's presence in Iraq.

The crux of it is that I don't fall into the myopic mistake of unconditionally befriending the enemy of my enemy. You're pro-Russia so it's understandable that you'd support its allies, like Hezbollah and the Syrian regime. However, don't fall into the same trap for which we constantly rebuke American propagandists in this forum and imagine a moral high-ground that doesn't exist.

ahhh... I think they're Christians.

It's weird that they are saluting to religious icons.

Thank you for your explaining your stance, GazaAli. It does make a whole lot of sense. But it also makes the long-running Middle East conflict look even more intractably complicated than I previously thought. :-(