CRANMER: Christians may be bombed, for that is convention. Muslims may not be gassed, for that is taboo. “The more we ‘intervene’, the more Christians are marginalised. In Syria, they are happier living under the the Shia Alawite dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad than under those we call the ‘rebels’ or ‘opposition forces’, who are, in fact, disparate groups of Al Qaeda-affiliated, Wahhabi-Islamist jihadists.”