Syrian Allawi Regime Shelling Sunni Mosques in Syria

Aapa

Mirajmom
Assalaam walaikum,

I am not kidding. I hit many a site to keep up on the news. Several of the sites are clearing houses and I noticed the news is scanty.

The US is in a mess, too.
 

Abu Talib

Feeling low
NATO is bombing army units of Gaddafi why it isn't bombing Basher's army? He is no less then Gaddafi using his Army to kill civilians I guess NATO has a selective approach policy.
 

ShahnazZ

Striving2BeAStranger
Well it's always been a given that ANY Islamic country minus oil equals persona non grata to the Western world.

As history has shown.
 

Just a Guy

Reinventing Myself
Well it's always been a given that ANY Islamic country minus oil equals persona non grata to the Western world.

As history has shown.

You can expand that to include any third-world country, and not just the Islamic ones. Any time the West gets interested in a third-world country it's either because of some natural resource or Communists (Vietnam).
 

Salem9022

Junior Member
Iraqi Shia Leader Says the Arab Spring Benefits Israel


loooooooooooooooool, Now since these Rafidhees are gone scared about thier Kaffir cousins the Nusayries loosing power in Syria they are now bringing the "Zionist" card on the table.


BAGHDAD — While Western leaders including President Obama called on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria to step down, Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, warned Arab leaders in a speech on Thursday that Israel would benefit the most from the Arab Spring.

“There is no doubt that there is a country that is waiting for the Arab countries to be ripped and is waiting for internal corrosion,” he said in Baghdad. “Zionists and Israel are the first and biggest beneficiaries of this whole process.”

Mr. Maliki, the leader of Iraq’s Shiite government, rarely mentions Israel in speeches. But he warned that those Arab countries experiencing democratic revolutions should be wary of Israel’s taking advantage of the turmoil.

“We must take notice and be careful not to be the prey of the ambitions of this usurping country,” he said.

Mr. Maliki, who has maintained a far friendlier tone toward the Assad government than many Arab leaders, did not refer to Syria in the speech. He said that Arabs deserved to have more rights, but that they should gain them through the electoral process.

Since the uprising in Syria began, Mr. Maliki has invited many Syrian officials to Baghdad to discuss stronger economic ties between the two countries. He has also said far less about the Syrian government’s bloody crackdown on dissent than he did when there was similar unrest earlier in Bahrain, where a Sunni monarchy holds sway over a predominantly Shiite population.

Many analysts have said that Mr. Maliki’s stance on Syria reflects Iraq’s increasing tilt toward Iran, a Shiite theocracy and a strong supporter of Syria. In 2010, Mr. Maliki relied heavily on Iran’s political support to gain a second term as prime minister. Others have said that Mr. Maliki is concerned that unrest in Syria could spill over the border into Iraq and further destabilize the country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/world/middleeast/19iraq.html


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Where were the Zionist when these filthy Rafidhees were hugging their Hands in 2003 or were killing Palestinians in Iraq. This is the nature of these Shias. When ever they are about to loose power they will call it a Zionist Conspiracy.
 

Abu Talib

Feeling low
The Iranian regime is one of the few remaining allies of the embattled Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad. For years, the United States has tried to sever the ties between the two countries, but the current crisis has only pushed them closer together.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has made it clear that Tehran sees the uprising in Syria as a U.S. ploy: "In Syria, the hand of America and Israel is evident," he said on June 30. Meanwhile, he affirmed Iran's support for Assad, noting, "Wherever a movement is Islamic, populist, and anti-American, we support it."

Despite disagreements on other matters, the rest of the Iranian regime seems to concur with Khamenei about Syria. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have characterized the Syrian uprising as a foreign conspiracy. And the parliament, which in recent years has competed for power with the guards, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the supreme leader, is also in lockstep. On August 8, after a trip to Cairo, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the chairman of the Iranian parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, reiterated Khamenei's stand. "Having lost Egypt," he said, "the U.S. has targeted Syria."

For Iran, Assad's Syria is the front line of defense against the United States and Israel. Without his guaranteed loyalty, the second line of defense -- Hezbollah and Hamas -- would crumble. According to U.S. estimates, Hezbollah receives $100 million in supplies and weaponry per year from Tehran, which is transported through Syria. It would become all the more difficult to use Iran as a proxy against Israel if the Syrian borders were suddenly closed.
In addition to sharing weapons and surveillance tools credible reports from Syrian refugees indicate that Tehran sent its own forces to Syria to quash the protests.

Moreover, the Iranian regime is particularly sympathetic because it views the Syrian uprising as similar in kind to the waves of protest that swept Iran in 2009 and 2010. Those protests, they have claimed, were a U.S.-backed attempt at regime change. The Syrian ones, the thinking goes, are a U.S. maneuver to destroy the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah axis -- the bedrock of Iran's power in the region. Speaking this spring, Ahmad Mousavi, Iran's former ambassador in Damascus, made this explicit: "Current events in Syria are designed by the foreign enemies and mark the second version of the sedition which took place in 2009 in Iran," he said. "The enemy is targeting the security and safety of Syria ... [The protestors] are foreign mercenaries, who get their message from the enemy and the Zionists."

It should not be surprising, then, that Iran has taken significant measures to keep Assad in power. According to U.S. officials, as of April Iran was providing the Syrian security services with weapons, surveillance equipment, and training. Earlier this month, Ankara intercepted an arms shipment headed from Tehran to Damascus -- the second such shipment it caught this summer.

The Iranian regime has also provided Assad with technology to monitor e-mail, cell phones, and social media. Iran developed these capabilities in the wake of the 2009 protests and spent millions of dollars establishing a "cyber army" to track down dissidents online. Iran's monitoring technology is believed to be among the most sophisticated in the world -- second, perhaps, only to China. Shortly after Iran shared its know-how with Syria this summer, Assad lifted restrictions on social networking Web sties, presumably to lure dissents out into the open.

In addition to sharing weapons and surveillance tools credible reports from Syrian refugees indicate that Tehran sent its own forces to Syria to quash the protests. A number of revolutionary guards from the elite Quds Force are also reported to be there, presumably to train Syrian forces. On May 18, the U.S. Treasury Department mentioned the role of the Quds Force directly, asserting that Mohsen Chizari, the Quds Force's third-in-command, was training the security services to fight against the protestors.

So far only one major Iranian voice has dared to question the Iranian regime's support of Assad. Grand Ayatollah Dastgheib, a member of the Assembly of Experts and a spiritual guide for Shiite Muslims, questioned Tehran's strategy during his weekly Koran interpretation session at the Qoba mosque in Shiraz on June 23. He emphasized that Iran's resources should be saved for Iranians and asked, "Where should the public wealth that could make this country one of the best in the world be spent? Should it be sent to Syria, so they can oppress the people?"

Iran's other major regional allies -- Turkey and Hamas -- have also been hesitant to follow Iran's lead. Iran values the improvement in its ties with Turkey that came with Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rise to power and wants Ankara to serve as a buttress to Iran's regional strategy, and even as an interlocutor with the United States. But as Erdogan became more critical of Assad this summer, Tehran soured on the relationship. Iranian officials even openly blamed Erdogan for the unrest, and promised consequences should he not recant. Similarly, over the last two months, Hamas officials refused to hold rallies in the Gaza Strip in support of Assad. According to officials, Tehran has since cut off funding to Hamas.

Assad's chances of staying in power are greater than were those of Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. He may be forced to make some concessions to the protestors, but he still wields too much power to be removed from office completely. To date, there have been no significant defections within the Alawite-controlled military, which is key to his survival, and the Iranian-trained and supplied security forces have prevented the protests from reaching the levels of those in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. In Iran's view, much like the Tehran spring, the struggle for Syria is one of regime survival. Even if Assad should eventually fall, Iran will not stand idly by; Tehran will surely try to influence any successive government.
 

Astrugglingsoul

Junior Member
As-salamu alaykum brothers and sisters
first i want to say i am not an expert on the middle east and i am not from middle east either. but i can't resist myself from posting this reply, please correct me if i am wrong.
the problems in the middle east that we see actually rooted long long time ago by the british. when they dominated the countries like iraq and some others. but when they started to lose control of their empire they INTENTIONALLY placed leaders from the minority to rule the majority. they also created the palestine problem by promising the same piece of lands to both muslims and jews
let us do a statistics check
muslims in iraq-97%, among them sunni-32-37% and shia-60-65%
muslims in syria-87% among them sunni-74% and rest of them are shia and other sects
now follow the religion of the leaders
saddam hussein (sunni-minority)
bashar (shia-minority)
this culture is going on for years and years and their tortures over the majority are infamous and well known. now the west intervened in iraq because of oil. they intervened libya because of oil but they didn't intervene in egypt or syria? why cause they don't have oil? well it is one of the issues but the main issue is israel. all the western leaders are concerned about the situation in egypt after the departure of hosni mubarak. cause they are afraid the islamists gonna take over the country and ruin the relationship that was maintained with israel during the reign of hosni mubarak. same thing with bashar, they are saying to israel is this-if bashar leaves and someone else takes over it will be worse for israel. but the sad truth is israel has stronger military than the all the arab nations combined and they are now enjoying the show as the muslim brothers killing each others in the month of ramadan.
 

strive-may-i

Junior Member
Global Tirade on hidden agenda behind modern Global trade

Well it's always been a given that ANY Islamic country minus oil equals persona non grata to the Western world.

As history has shown.

Well is there not truth in the opinion - "Global trade" is but a vehicle, to get control over natural resources . A Global Tirade on global trade

East India Company, most agree, showed the way to the west ....
 

strive-may-i

Junior Member
Divide and rule

"Divide and rule" , the evils way, Iblees forte..,.. Was it not what Iblees did bring a division in opinion about the forbidden fruit?
 
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