Talk:Christianity in Syria
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This page is very clearly biased. Whilst some of the comments about discrimination may be true the leading and subjective comments, espcially in the closing paragraph, undermine any authority the article may have. Furthermore it calls the 'facts' (population figures) into question
Agreed! This article should be completely re-written. The last paragraph is of a special bias.
I would like to mention that the statement: "Recently there has been no threat on the decreasing population of Christians, but the percentage of Christians is dropping due to Islam being the main source of legislation." is completely inaccurate. Islam is the second source of legislation and it is only applied on Moslims. Christians have their own courts and things like marriage, divorce and all civil cases are looked at there. The article doesn't mention that a lot of representatives, ministers and local administrators are Christians. The article doesn't mention the special places Christians have. For instances, schools in Christian dominated areas have the weekend on Saturday and Sunday (weekend in Syria is on Friday and Saturday), christian government employee have the right of not coming to work until 12 on Sunday morning so they can have the chance to go to church. Christmas, Easter etc are all official holidays. The article doesn't also mention Christian sects: Roman Catholics, Roman Orthodox, Assyrian catholics, Assyrian Orthodox, Aremnian Catholics, Armenian Orthodox, Maronites, Latins and Protestants. Many provinces are Christian dominated, e.g., Damascus, Swaida, Hasakeh, Tartous and Homs.
[edit] Christians dominate?
When you say Christians "dominate" Damascus, Swaida, Hasakeh, Tartous and Homs, what do you mean? Do they form a numerical majority (I do not believe this is the case)?
I understand that there are regions where Christians are preponderant in the population (e.g. around Ma`loula) - perhaps some more detail on this could be given? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.143.244.34 (talk) 16:17, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
