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Catholics Get Slaughtered in Syria

July 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Syria, what can be said more, a nation crushed and destroyed by the Sunnni-Shi’a struggle that grips that whole Arab world, a conflict that was ignited by the split in the Muslim world brings with it blood and violence to all other religions in the area, including Christians.

Anyone expecting the “Syrian rebels” to be a uniformed body of people with a common culture, goal and moral system is not living in the reality, the fact is that these rebels are made of multiple nationals with just as many motives for inflicting violence on the land, and most of those are as happy to murder Jews and Christians as they are finding Shi’a believers to kill.

News today speak of Father François Murad, who was beheaded, and video-taped in the Al Queda style execution reserved for infidels. The Vatican confirmed the bloody killing, and added all the relevant disgust and anger over this violent act. Only atheists can ask themselves why the hell did the Vatican (or any religious body of any kind) keep any type of representation in Syria, while it is so painfully clear that the risk of extreme consequences is so high.

From Egypt to Syria any Muslim with a Koran knows that killing an innocent non-Muslim, or a Muslim of the opposed belief system carries no real condemnation, no punishment and no real problem, the show of words when these things do happen is an shameful spectacle of “ta-quia” in which Muslims try and come up with reasons for the killing (Jews are spying for the opposition, Christians are working with the other side and providing support etc.), lets hope that the people who send these religious clerics to do ”

Another clear sacrificial lamb of god
Another clear sacrificial lamb of godtheir

duty” in conflict zones study current events better than the bible.

 

Filed Under: Syria Tagged With: Christians killed in Syria, François Murad beheaded, Syria violence François Murad

The George Galloway Show

September 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment

This is one hell of a video right there. George Galloway, a British MP imploring an arab audience (of which nationality is unclear, but this is not about nationality but about religion) and teasing them to start what he calls a “revolution” in Saudi Arabia, when it seems much more like he is simply calling Arabs to start inflicting a Syrian like human suffering in Saudi Arabia.

Whenever the argument goes into a narrower path, he dangles the Americans and the Jews to the audience – because if the Americans and Jews are happy Arabs can not be, and if they are happy at the same time, well it means something is very wrong – according to Galloway.

It had only been a question of time when Galloway will go back to his  questionable support and love of the Syrian regime, he had been a true supporter in the past, only to have to twist and turn at the beginning of the Syrian violence (more than a year ago). Now it seems that he is back in full force, and with the ultimate weapon, the Palestinians. But the Palestinian argument is slowly fading away, even from Arab crowds. In the whole Israeli Palestinian conflict there was never a day-by-day bloodletting festival of violence as has been demonstrated in Syria. While generations of Syrians have been oppressed by a tribal and religious minority children in Gaza grow up without even once seeing an Israeli soldier.

So if we were to make a short summary of this video, and answer a simple question – “what does George Galloway, who is a British (and had never publicly claimed to be a Muslim) want from his Arab-Muslim audience?”, the answer should be clear, this man wants the same level of violence we are seeing in Syria to happen in Saudi Arabia. “Why would he want that?”, well your guess is as good as mine, but it seems that by the way he glorifies the Iranian regime and shows complete hate to the Saudi one that it must have something to do with Shi’a V Sunni Islam.

Why would they not make things more simple for us?, why wouldn’t George Galloway show up on stage, open up by saying that he is a Shi’a Muslim, that he comes to the stage not as a British national or MP, but as a bloodthirsty religious crazed individual who just wants to see Saudi blood in the streets for glory of his (and his friends) version of Islam. That would just make it easier to ignore the noise coming from his direction.

Filed Under: Saudi Arabia, Syria, UK Tagged With: George Galloway, George Galloway Iran Shi'a, george galloway syria, Sunni v Shi'a Islam

Human Suffering in Syria 2012

August 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

This video is short, violent and raw, it is probably the best description of what Syria has been reduced to – after months of interior riots and fighting, this is the face of religious tribal war in the Muslim world, it has been going on for centuries and it does not look like it plans to stop now.

Whatever these people have done, to see them marched to death and paraded as the blood crazed mob chants “alla ho akbar” – the pagan cry of believers dedicating a murder to their always blood thirsty god, this is no way for Syrians to rebuild their country, this is no way to step out of Assad’s tyranny into democracy, this is only about the religon tearing apart yet another part of the world.

 

Filed Under: Syria Tagged With: Syria Muslim on Muslim violence, Syria riots 2012, Syria violence

Houla Syria Is the Boy Cry “the King Is Naked”

May 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment

The People living Next Door Came at Night to Cut Throats

About two months ago it seemed that the situation in Syria can not get worst, but since that time the question “is Syria a third world country?” has been replaced with an almost clear understanding that it is actually a middle age country.

The slaughter in Syria is tribal based religious war, the causes for this Syrian civil war are based on the Arab Sonni-Shia conflict and nothing else. On the side of the Sonni majority you have the claims for years of oppressive regime and brutal dictatorship that kept that part of the population in poverty and under chains, on the Shia side of things you will hear claims of impending massacre if they do not put on a fight now.

The last, horrific, massacre to be known to the West is the Houla massacre, in which dozens were savagely murdered in their homes, while asleep. These poor victims were not killed in an army action, they were not torn to pieces by relentless shelling (as many others were, and still are) but were stabbed and shot – point blank, by their Alawait neighbors, who simply did the math and realized that if they do not clear the near area of the “other” tribe their own days are numbered.

Just like any other regional slaughter, which is almost always religion based, the fear of the other side taking arms is the prime motivation in unthinkable slaughter, the other group is perceived as so evil and terrible that people take arms and do not spare anyone – even 5 week old babies.

The West, it seems, simply has no idea about any of that, Assad takes the blame for many things that he might have inspired – but is probably not connected to at all (like these regional massacres), the lack of information and the persistence on avoiding the religious issues at hand makes most of the Western media and politicians ignorant of the topic, this is not a (relatively) simple king-gone-mad type of thing but a complicated tribal based war.

Saudi Arabia is deeply involved here, as the main protector of the Sonni Arab side it has to be, and the growing tensions between the two Muslim super powers, Iran and Saudi Arabia, mean that none of them is going to put less pressure on its fighting parties. The West has done nothing to try and untangle the religious issues, it has done nothing to solve the problem, it does not send a clear message to Iran who is backing Assad, and it is not stopping the Saudis from increasing the fire under Syria’s feet.

This last Houla massacre is simply the naive boy’s cry “the king is naked”, we are living in a world that has not changed much in the past 3,000 years, the only thing is that we learn about massacres like these a day or two later and can see clear images of the slaughtered, but no one moves a finger to stop this, UN planes fly in and out of the Syrian capitol airport, dinners and lunches are held, press conferences are issued, and all is watched by the slowly withering eyes of the soon to be killed population of Syria.

Filed Under: Syria Tagged With: Houla massacre, Houla Syria, Syria killing, Syria news, Syria riots 2011

Assad’s Catch 22

April 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Assad is unable to please the West, and is forced to survive with Iran

The Syrian uprising of 2011 and 2012 seems as simple as the Egyptian and Tunisian ones before it, however it is not just a battle for freedom and liberty as was the case in those countries, but of tribal and religious struggle as well. Syria is a country that has been ruled by a minority for a long time, like many other countries in the Arab world is constructed on the ancient method of divide and rule as was used by the British in their colonial days.

Assad is the son of the late Syrian president, who also was involved in bloody fight against the majority of Syrians who wanted to remove him from power, so it is not a big surprise that both father and son as mutually hated by most of their countrymen, however strange it might seem.

Assad belongs to the Alawite minority, who is well positioned in all the finest spots of Syrian society, military and civil authorities are made of mostly people who belong to that religious group, and like Saddam Hussain’s Iraq are expected to remain loyal to the regime whatever happens. Here we get to the first point that is critical to the understanding of the situation in Syria and, maybe, of its outcome.

For one to expect a peaceful transition of power from the Assad family to a democratic parliament or group of people is as unrealistic as to assume that the Iranians will separate state from religion. There can not be a peaceful transition because the minority Arab Sunni population holds so much grudge against (not only) the Assad family and the entire Alawite tribe that once power will move into new hands a bloodbath will instantly begin in the country.

Not only had Assad junior now ordered the mass killing of many Syrians, his father before him was responsible for the killing of tens of thousands, as well as the organized oppression of that entire Sunni population. One should realize that this is bad blood running for decades, if the Syrian Arab Sunnis could – they would massacre everyone who is Alawite and had any connection to power and money.

So Assad here plays a double rule, on the one hand he is called (by name only) the Syrian president, although he was not elected, is not popular and does not work for the good of the entire Syrian people, on the other hand Assad is expected and probably also intrinsically wired to protect his own clan and preserve the power his Alawite tribe needs in order to survive. It should be clear even to the most liberal of people that if Assad caves he might save his own family but the fate of his fellow Alawite clan members is dim.

To say it honestly, Assad can not leave power. Not for his own family’s sake, and not if he wants to physically survive.  He saw and learned the lesson from the dead Libyan ruler Gaddafi, who knew he had to fight for his life, only Gaddafi did not have Shia brothers in the form of the Iranians, who were actually happy to see Gaddafi removed.

This brings us to the last piece of the puzzle, Iran is deeply involved in Syria, and this only makes sense because both Alawites and Iran are Shia muslims and regard their power over the Sunni world essential for the success of their religious mission. Iran makes a normal and peaceful solution of the Syrian situation impossible because it is more radical and more tilted towards control and power in the Sunni world than Assad is about his own clan.

Filed Under: Syria Tagged With: Alawite Iran, Alawite Syria, Assad Alawite, Assad and Iran, Assad catch 22, Assad politics, Assad Syria, Bashar al Assad

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