I'm curious...was the university in Kenya "liberated" as well?
147 killed in Kenya school attack, officials say - CNN.com
147 killed in Kenya school attack, officials say - CNN.com
Upvote
0
God have mercy and deliver the people of Idlib and all of Syria.
LBAM, you know you're allowed to simultaneously hate both the Assad regime and the Islamists? You should - they both deserve it.
Or you could actually listen to people who know more about the situation than you do and realize that the area was under worse leadership before, rather than seeing what you want to see. Our ideal form of government (democracy and peaceful change of leadership) is not accessible to every society as of yet. You should be grateful that you don't have to think of this as a step in the right direction.A Muslim on a Christian board cheering for the fact that Al-Qaeda offshoots captured a town.
#religionofpeace
Or you could actually listen to people who know more about the situation than you do and realize that the area was under worse leadership before, rather than seeing what you want to see. Our ideal form of government (democracy and peaceful change of leadership) is not accessible to every society as of yet. You should be grateful that you don't have to think of this as a step in the right direction.
Idilib was not liberated, but taken over by Al-Qaeda.
I pray the Syrian government can restore peace and that the Syrian Arab Army will have victory over the Al-Qaeda terrorists.
Oh, so we're PRO Assad now?
OK. Sure. Why not. "We have always been at war with Eastasia".
I think Creech has always been pro Assad.Oh, so we're PRO Assad now?
OK. Sure. Why not. "We have always been at war with Eastasia".
LoveBeingMuslim
I am still trying to get more educated on this Syrian issue.
Oh, there are many factions and I couldn't even begin to name them. Fortunately, there is this wiki page. I wouldn't be surprised if there were even more groups. No group on that list is as bad as or worse than Assad's regime. Not even ISIS (though I don't consider them rebels anymore) simply because they have not left the carnage Assad has....not to that degree at least. But their actions show they are just as brutal.I gather that the Rebels are fighting the Syrian Government (Assad) but how many factions of the rebels are there? Which ones are much better than the Syrian Government and which ones are as bad or worse? What faction is winning?
Thank you for asking this question as it made me do some research so I could give a proper answer and, in doing so, I found a book published in 2007 that I look forward to reading. I'm a few dozen pages in and I think it might help you too:LBM, why is Assad so hated; what specifically did he do to his people?
LBM, why is Assad so hated; what specifically did he do to his people?
Posted by LBM
In 1963, the Baath party took power in Syria. They ignited trouble by slowly weeding out non-Baath factions of the army, including Sunnis, who made up the majority of the Syrian population. Hafiz Al-Assad of the Baath party gained the presidency in 1970. President Al-Assad further alienated the multitude of sects by putting together a government of Alawis, the religious sect he belonged to, and personal friends. This pushing aside of the Sunni majority and other factions who desired to have a voice in the governing of their country aroused feelings of anger and resentment that soon led to the desire to overthrow the government.
Posted by LBM
The government's wrath, executed largely by the Mukhabarat, the notorious secret service agents, spread terror throughout the country. Often, a friendly conversation or a mere cup of tea with an oppositionist landed people in jail. In addition, the Mukhabarat commonly took hostages in place of "wanted criminals
Posted by LBM
From March 2011:
"Military troops opened fire during protests in the southern part of Syria on Friday and killed peaceful demonstrators
Now Assad keeps using chemical weapons (in the past few weeks alone there have been numerous reports of various chemical attacks) and barrel bombs against the Sunnis, which has mainly killed non-combatants. So far, at least 220,000 Sunni Syrians have died.
LovebeingMuslim
Thank you for addressing each question with third party references!
Thank you again LBM for your responses. Since it is very hard for me to understand the situations in that region and that I am one that is sick of the USA getting involved in wars that do not involve us, I do not know if I am going to spend a lot more time going in depth on this issue. I will continue to read your posts as you seem to be very interested in this issue and are motivated to post references. I will also read all others that have references.
[/COLOR]
BY SC
After reading your post, I admire the fact that you're actively seeking to get information on the subject. As you rightly stated, the civil war in Syria is a mess of different factions and different interests.
While I, too, enjoy reading LBAMs refreshingly different opinions and concepts when it comes to Middle East politics, I implore you to read up on the situation from other, less partisan sources. Wikipedia, though discouraged in the academic field, is a powerful source to get a very basic and fundamental view of the conflict.
The reason that I'm saying this is because LBAM has outed herself as a supporter of Al-Qaeda associated factions before - and as such, I believe her credibility on the subject is more than tainted.
Al-Nusra, for example - that is the group she is praising in this thread - is the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda, the same terror group that has killed more than 3,000 Americans on 9/11 and basically kicked off the military invasions that you and I both criticise.
The group announced its formation on 23 January 2012, during the Syrian Civil War.[42] Since then, it has been described as both "the most aggressive and successful"[43] and "one of the most effective rebel forces" in Syria,[44] and has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations,[45] Australia,[46] Canada, New Zealand,[47] Russia,[48] the United Kingdom,[49] the United States,[50] and Turkey.
in a statement issued on 9 March 2015, the group reaffirmed its allegiance to al-Qaeda and denied plans to break away from it.[
The al-Nusra Front aims to overthrow the Assad government and replace it with a Sunni Islamic state. Although the group is affiliated with al-Qaeda, it does not emphasise Western targets or global jihad, focusing instead on the "near enemy" of the Syrian state.[
al-Nusra Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That's the real value this thread. Without realising it, LBAM does illustrate just how awful the situation is for the Syrian people. Because there is nobody to cheer. No hope for Syrians to not live under brutal oppression and bigotry.unfortunately I dont think this bodes well for Syria.
When AL queda is your better option, good luck.