Idlib liberated!

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

The battle to lift the siege on Aleppo again began last week. Only just getting to post about it:

American reporter from inside of besieged Aleppo (English):

https://www.facebook.com/

Jubilant civilians inside of besieged Aleppo because of the rebels launching a new offensive to free Aleppo

Those within Aleppo trying to help out in the battle in their own small ways as they did previously:

Homemade air defense system in #Aleppo, Because of lack in the black tiers


Another picture for the Reinforcement for the Air Defense brigade in #Aleppo on the Way to be delivered to the air Defense members

Small backup for the battle of #Aleppo by burning tiers in Attempt to unclear the sky for #Assad's jets

Demonstration in east #Aleppo support the offensive by #FSA and #army_Of_conquest to broke the siege on Aleppo

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

Not much happy news to report, but here is one thing that I thought added some sweetness to this deeply hurtful genocide (and it's about a girl I posted about in the other thread).

Bana Alabed is a 7-year-old girl in besieged East Aleppo who live tweets, with Fatemah, her mom, things like bombs, reactions, and their daily life. For some reason, she triggers a lot of regime supporters. There have been death, rape, and torture/imprisonment threats/hopes against her/mother. Anyway:

A few days ago, Fatema tweeted JK Rowling saying, "Hi @jk_rowling I watched Harry Potter movie, Bana would like to read the book.- Fatemah #Aleppo" and Ms. Rowling replied, "@AlabedBana Bana, I hope you do read the book, because I think you'd like it. Sending you lots and lots of love xxx". When Fatemah told her they don't have Harry Potter books where they are, and after some back-and-forth, they sent her an e-book because getting a hard copy to besieged Aleppo would be very hard.

[...] Thank you for the book [...]

Hello my friend @jk_rowling, I started reading your books now, my heart is for you. Thank you. - Bana #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo

My brothers want to read the Harry Potters too. - Bana #Aleppo

What are we doing? We are reading Harry Potters. - Bana #Aleppo

99% of the tweets ever since then have been devastating, but I won't show most of them except for this one:

Tonight we have no house, it's bombed & I got in rubble. I saw deaths & I almost died. - Bana #Aleppo

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

These protests belong on this thread:

A big crowd is chanting "Murderer Iran, do leave Syria" outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul

"Murderer Russia, do leave Syria" outside Russian embassy in Istanbul

People protesting the situation in Aleppo, chanting anti-Russia, anti-Assad and anti-Iran slogans. #Istanbul via @ValkryV

Killer Iran, Killer Hezbollah (Turkey)

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=679439502215648

Protest in Kuwait

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

https://www.facebook.com/

Residents of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, held a solidarity rally for civilians trapped in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo. The gathering was emotional for some who remembered that Sarajevo endured a bloody siege itself during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1208930815858790

#Sarajevo, #Bosnia_Herzegovina, 14-12-2016: Thousands of people from all backgrounds gathered this afternoon in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to protest in solidarity with Aleppo, with the city's mayor also present at the event to show solidarity with the people of Aleppo.

https://www.facebook.com/

Live in Paris where the lights of the Eiffel Tower have gone out in solidarity with the people of Aleppo.

Parade, fireworks and all celebrations scheduled for December 18 cancelled in solidarity with beleaguered citizens.
Qatar cancels national day gala after Aleppo onslaught

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

Demo in Sarajevo in solidarity with #Aleppo. The Bosnians know everything about genocide

Sarajevo in solidarity with the besieged, abused & abandoned people of Aleppo

"We know how it feels to be abandoned and forgotten. We remember how it is when there are no replies to the screams for help. So today, we stand united with Aleppo in Syria and all other towns where people suffer."
“We know how it feels to be abandoned and forgotten.” The people of Sarajevo stand in solidarity with the people of Aleppo.

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

Not much happy news to report, but here is one thing that I thought added some sweetness to this deeply hurtful genocide (and it's about a girl I posted about in the other thread).

Bana Alabed is a 7-year-old girl in besieged East Aleppo who live tweets, with Fatemah, her mom, things like bombs, reactions, and their daily life. For some reason, she triggers a lot of regime supporters. There have been death, rape, and torture/imprisonment threats/hopes against her/mother. Anyway:

A few days ago, Fatema tweeted JK Rowling saying, "Hi @jk_rowling I watched Harry Potter movie, Bana would like to read the book.- Fatemah #Aleppo" and Ms. Rowling replied, "@AlabedBana Bana, I hope you do read the book, because I think you'd like it. Sending you lots and lots of love xxx". When Fatemah told her they don't have Harry Potter books where they are, and after some back-and-forth, they sent her an e-book because getting a hard copy to besieged Aleppo would be very hard.

[...] Thank you for the book [...]

Hello my friend @jk_rowling, I started reading your books now, my heart is for you. Thank you. - Bana #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo

My brothers want to read the Harry Potters too. - Bana #Aleppo

What are we doing? We are reading Harry Potters. - Bana #Aleppo

99% of the tweets ever since then have been devastating, but I won't show most of them except for this one:

Tonight we have no house, it's bombed & I got in rubble. I saw deaths & I almost died. - Bana #Aleppo

Bana is among those who has been forcibly displaced from Aleppo to relative safety (for now), all praises belong to Him for her safe exit. On top of the dangers all Sunnis in Syria face, she was also getting death threats from some regime supporters. Others were refusing to believe she's real or that she knows what she's saying (they said she was being used and told what to say because she couldn't possibly know English that well). They try to discredit every opposition to Assad (White Helmets, the rebels, civilians, journalists, activists, etc.) Well:

https://www.facebook.com/

An Interview with the famous Syrian Little girl from Aleppo : Bana Alabed Made By: Hadi Abdullah

She's real! And she can speak English on her own. And in her native tongue, Arabic, she fluently says the same things she expressed in English on her twitter.

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

Very happy to meet with Mr Erdogan. - Bana #Aleppo

I was pleased to host @AlabedBana and her family at the Presidential Complex today. Turkey will always stand with the people of Syria.

بنتنا من حلب بانة العبد AlabedBana@ أسعدتنا كثيرا حين زارتنا في المجمع الرئاسي برفقة عائلتها. تركيا إلى جانب السوريين دائما.

Video of Bana speaking with President Erdogan

More footage

Besieged one day, out and meeting with a president the next. Thank God.

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

^That wonderful girl helped bring attention to the plight of the Aleppians and had a hand in saving the tens of thousands of people there from near-certain death at the hands of Assad's regime and its allies. The help of Allaah comes from unexpected places.

Another wonderful person:

Jim Estill put up $1.5 million to bring 58 families to Canada. He found them homes, gave them jobs and even bought one man a dollar store. How the mild-mannered CEO of an appliance company became the Oskar Schindler of Guelph

[...] As he watched the news, Estill got worked up. “I didn’t want to be 80 years old and know that I did nothing during the greatest humanitarian crisis of my time,” he says. Estill was disturbed by the wave of xenophobia that had emerged during the Harper administration. [...] “When we think of Italians or Irish, we don’t think of them as immigrants. They’re just people.”

The Man Who Saved 200 Syrian Refugees

People like him put me to shame. What an inspiration.

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

A reminder for myself that just because some governments are committing and/or supporting crimes, it is not necessarily reflective of the people:

Bolivian factory workers' moment of silence for Assad's victims in Aleppo.

Statement by Bolivian Factory Workers of La Paz on the Syrian Genocide with Translation. #AleppoIsBurning #Syria #Bolivia

I'm so impressed by them. They know what's going on across the world and oppose it adamantly. Stark contrast to those I've met who haven't a clue what's happening or even where.

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

Huge merger happened a few days ago. HTS (Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham) formed and many are joining it. God-willing, the first of a lot of good news after a distressful period.

OGN - Tahreer Sham: Who won in this merger?

"3. Syrians are Jubilant

In the city of Idlib, Syrians were jubilant last night upon hearing the news of the new merger as “Takbiraat” (saying of Allahu Akbar) was heard from speakers mounted on the city’s many mosques. After losing Aleppo it was the first time to see a look of optimism from average Syrians. To be fair, that optimism is guarded but it was clear that this was seen as a step in the right direction."
Who won in this merger?

Since we can no longer embed tweets on this site, here is the link to the video of the mosques calling out the takibraat because of the merger.

 

[Landon Caeli]

Huge merger happened a few days ago. HTS (Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham) formed and many are joining it. God-willing, the first of a lot of good news after a distressful period.

OGN - Tahreer Sham: Who won in this merger?

"3. Syrians are Jubilant

In the city of Idlib, Syrians were jubilant last night upon hearing the news of the new merger as “Takbiraat” (saying of Allahu Akbar) was heard from speakers mounted on the city’s many mosques. After losing Aleppo it was the first time to see a look of optimism from average Syrians. To be fair, that optimism is guarded but it was clear that this was seen as a step in the right direction."
Who won in this merger?

Since we can no longer embed tweets on this site, here is the link to the video of the mosques calling out the takibraat because of the merger.

Who are they going to fight now? LOL.

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

Who are they going to fight now? LOL.

What exactly is it that you find so funny? Their resistance even when the entire world has turned a blind eye towards the genocide and ethnic cleansing they're facing? And is that picture from Yemen? I don't see what Yemen has to do with Syria beyond Iran also trying to influence things there.

 

[Landon Caeli]

What exactly is it that you find so funny? Their resistance even when the entire world has turned a blind eye towards the genocide and ethnic cleansing they're facing? And is that picture from Yemen? I don't see what Yemen has to do with Syria beyond Iran also trying to influence things there.

Life is tough in Islam.

 

[Paul Yohannan]

The only genocide in Syria is of the Christians, Alawis, Mevlevis, and other religious minorities.
1,500 years ago, Syria was a majority-Christian country. Now, the few remaining Christians in Syria live in constant danger of religious or political violence.

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

The only genocide in Syria is of the Christians, Alawis, Mevlevis, and other religious minorities.

.....Yeah, so tell me how many of the (at least) 200k non-combatants dead in Syria are non-Sunnis.

1,500 years ago, Syria was a majority-Christian country.

1,500 years ago, Islaam was about to take the world by storm, spreading astonishingly rapidly (without forced conversion for the most part).

Now, the few remaining Christians in Syria live in constant danger of religious or political violence.

Like this Christian Syrian woman who was even harassed in Egypt by Assad's thugs after she fled to it (after being imprisoned and tortured in Syria)?

4th Geneva Summit: Hadeel Kouki, Syria

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

Bittersweet. This refugee from previously-besieged, bombed, and ethnically cleansed Aleppo has only known war and was never taught sign language. The joy he shows here is....well, just watch. Here is some backstory before I post the video:

"In 3 days packed with overwhelming emotion, this moment hit me hardest. 6yr old Hamza, a refugee from Aleppo, is congenitally deaf and has never been exposed to sign language. While waiting to see an audiologist, I showed him a few signs just for fun. I returned 30min later to play with him again and was shocked when he spontaneously used the signs I'd shown him! He spent the rest of his visit pointing to things and asking what they were called.

In this video, Hamza shows off his newfound language :')"

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10211341818318706

Refugee, deaf boy from Aleppo learns some sign language

 

[Orthodoxjay1]

.....Yeah, so tell me how many of the (at least) 200k non-combatants dead in Syria are non-Sunnis.



1,500 years ago, Islaam was about to take the world by storm, spreading astonishingly rapidly (without forced conversion for the most part).



Like this Christian Syrian woman who was even harassed in Egypt by Assad's thugs after she fled to it (after being imprisoned and tortured in Syria)?

4th Geneva Summit: Hadeel Kouki, Syria

Islam was about to take over the world by storm due to the Sword, and due to the violent doctrine of Jihad, and putting Christians, and other minorities in Dhimmi status.

 

[rambot]

The only genocide in Syria is of the Christians, Alawis, Mevlevis, and other religious minorities.
1,500 years ago, Syria was a majority-Christian country. Now, the few remaining Christians in Syria live in constant danger of religious or political violence.

Believe it or not but the geopolitics of 1500 years ago isn't really relevant to, anything ever.

Funny how easy it is to go back 1500 years to disparage Islam but don't you DARE consider going back 200 years to watch Christianity be used to justify slavery...

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

Finally, a siege lifted, all praises belong to Him! Besieged Qaboun seems to have finally connected with east Ghouta. God-willing it remains lifted so that the inhabitants are not forcibly displaced out of it in Assad's ongoing campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Rebels launched a surprise offensive and have seized 9 tanks and destroyed 6 so far. Dozens of regime fighters dead, lots captured, and many fled.

#Map show #Rebels advancing east of #Damascus and control of the area between Joubar and Qaboun

Most of the governments of the world largely turned a blind eye to Assad's crimes or even aided against the rebels/supported Assad but those against Assad still manage to gain major victories. With far inferior weapons than those targeting them from every direction, at that. There can only be freedom and justice for these people in the end, God-willing.

 

[LoveBeingAMuslimah]

^I believe that the liberated portions of al-Qaboun are a little less than what the map showed. It was more a strip of land that connected the two rebel-held areas. And I have not been able to find confirmation of that figure of tanks being seized.

In addition to the Damascus offensive, the rebels began an offensive on the Hama front as well yesterday and they are steadily making gains. In fact, it's going so fast that I can't keep up. This is what was needed. Multiple offensives concurrently to spread Assad/allies thinly. They also didn't announce their offensives beforehand or give too many real-time updates, thankfully. Learning from past mistakes.

Updated #Map: Syrian Opposition gained around 150 km² from Regime, in less than 24 hrs, in North #Hama offensive. http://goo.gl/Q0CStz pic.twitter.com/OXxbv4xHJz
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Rebels pushing fast and hard toward Hama airbase allegedly being evacuated. Assad defenses collapsing, circled positions allegedly captured.pic.twitter.com/rB6mDtdxtp
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For those unfamiliar with Syria, here is how far apart Hama and Damascus are (3 maps):