{"id":5108,"date":"2013-01-17T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T22:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2013-01-17T21:43:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:43:58","slug":"yana-dropped-off-first-vanishing-pagans-of-egypt-and-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5108","title":{"rendered":"“Yana Dropped Off First”: Vanishing Pagans of Egypt and Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

To begin with, there were just a handful of them. And some are going silent, as Cara Schulz writes for the Pagan Newswire Collective: <\/a><\/p>\n

The situation in Syria appears to be more grave, according to the last messages I received from the five Pagans I chat with regularly. \u00a0They spoke of the fighting and how places looked like\u00a0Beirut, \u00a0buildings just shells of themselves, rubble blocking the streets. \u00a0They detailed neighbors going missing. \u00a0Islamic\u00a0fundamentalist\u00a0patrols that monitor behavior and took violent action against people who violated rules and customs. They debated fleeing, worried about being outed as a Pagan, and started destroying or burying altars. \u00a0Three began attending local mosques to show\u00a0their\u00a0devotion to Islam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would bet that in a generation, even the Egyptian Christians will be gone<\/a>, off to North America or somewhere else. I have even met a few in my area \u2014 and we see very few Middle Easterners. In this case, it was the family coming to visit their daughter who had married an American and then moved with him to this area \u2014 and then I heard that they were still in the United States. Trying for political asylum?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To begin with, there were just a handful of them. And some are going silent, as Cara Schulz writes for the Pagan Newswire Collective: The situation in Syria appears to be more grave, according to the last messages I received from the five Pagans I chat with regularly. \u00a0They spoke of the fighting and how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,116,15,5,199],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christianity","tag-egypt","tag-islam","tag-paganism","tag-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1ko","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":257,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=257","url_meta":{"origin":5108,"position":0},"title":"Pagans invented the wheel Well,\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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