Re: Hezbollah Leader Vows to Fight on Behalf of Syrian Regime
Despite all the denials there are two definite groups debating here.
Without any exception the Shia brothers and sisters here are firmly standing behind Assad/Hezbollah/Iran no matter what.
Following are the facts:
Syrian Demography Stats:
Sunnis 77% Shias 13% (10% Alawis and 3% Ithnā’ashariyyah) Christians (of several variations, including Orthodox and Maronite) 10%
Bashar Assad a Ba’athist (supposed to be non-sectarian) rules Syria with Iron fist with power and positions firmly in hands of his co-religionists –the Alawis
Sunnis even though are in overwhelming majority, they are oppressed people.
Iraq Demography Stats:
Shias 62% (overwhelming Ithnā’ashariyyah) Sunni around 35% and Christian Sects 3%
Saddam Hussein a Ba’athist (supposed to be non-sectarian) ruled Iraq with Iron fist with power and positions firmly in hands of his co-religionists –the Sunnis
Shias even though in majority, they were oppressed people.
When America/Europe/Zionists attacked Saddam’s Iraq our Shia brothers and Sisters on this very thread were surely cheering the invaders to ‘rescue’ their co-religionists
Double standards?
In similar vein Sadaam was not a sectarian person… He was a Secularist baaathist. His army constituted people of all background, not just Sunnis. So this was never a shia vs sunni thing for him. It was the Shias/Americans/Zionists/ types that took over and turned into a sectarian warfare…
Be Divided and get conquered. And shout freedom
In similar vein Americans and other Zionists have succeeded in strengthening the hands of rebels (against rule of Sadaam Hussein) looking for Western style democracy……
Syria’s Population is not a complex one – Sunnis are 77%
If this interests you Ithnā’ashariyyah are around 3% strong!
There are only 22 Jews in Syria – all in Damascus – majority had emigrated to greener pastures westwards.
Syrian Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hezbollah has committed a biggest blunder- It was seen as an Islamic force against Israel – It’s stand was admired by Sunnis Muslims all over the world – this move has the shown the true heart and hand of Hezbollah – It has proved to be a military arm of Shia Iran proxying for Iranian interests.
Take note the Palestinian groups will move away from alliance with Iran.
Propping up of Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad military Hezbollah has lost its Islamic credentials. It should have stayed out of this conflict to preserve its strength – In long run Bashar Assad is doomed – like it or not just like in Iraq the Majority will rule and the minority will suffer – unfortunately – brutality of the conflict will assure that.
Unfortunately Hezbollah will be isolated caught between a rock and a hard place
You should not really gloat about post-revolution Iran’s relationship with Syrian regimes.
The Hama massacre (Arabic: مجزرة حماة) occurred in February 1982, when the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies, under the orders of the country’s then-president, Hafez al-Assad, besieged the town of Hama for 27 days in order to quell an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against al-Assad’s government.[1][2] The massacre, carried out by the Syrian Army supposedly under commanding General Rifaat al-Assad, President Assad’s younger brother, effectively ended the campaign begun in 1976 by Sunni Islamic groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, against the government.
Initial diplomatic reports from western countries stated that 1,000 were killed.[3][4] Subsequent estimates vary, with the lower estimates claiming that at least 10,000 Syrian citizens were killed,[5] while others put the number at 20,000 (Robert Fisk),[1] or 40,000 (Syrian Human Rights Committee).[6][2] About 1,000 Syrian soldiers were killed during the operation and large parts of the old city were destroyed. Alongside such events as Black September in Jordan,[7] the attack has been described as one of “the single deadliest acts by any Arab government against its own people in the modern Middle East”.[8] The vast majority of the victims were civilians.[9]