Syrian Christians fear Islamist rule if Assad goes

15/5/2012 Damascus: Christians living in conflict-torn Syria are afraid their community would fall victim of religious extremism if President Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapses and Islamists come to power. “I am afraid that we will suffer bad times,” a member of Damascus’s Christian community, who identified himself as Jorge, told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency. A full-fledged civil war will break out in Syria if Assad’s enemies and their western supporters continue efforts to topple the President, he said.