Re: Is Syria forgotten !!!
It is not surprising that someone like bao bihari would play a sectarian card and lie about the nature of the conflict. This is the same narrative being used by sectarian dictators sitting in countries like Wahhabi Occupied Hejaz.
They constantly lie to make it look like no Sunnis support Assad.
The Syrian army they hate also consists mostly of Sunnis. Assad has no chance to succeed if Sunnis in army rebel against him. But obviously they know what is best for them than some Saudi Shaykh playing sectarian card, provoking people based on “holy” lies.
Sunnis fill rebel ranks, but also prop up Assad regime
** Many Sunnis are backing the dictatorship to preserve their livelihoods, or believe the uprising is doomed or ruthless.**
Sunni Muslims make up 70% of Syria’s 25 million people and it is they who fill the ranks of the rebellion against Assad’s minority Alawite regime, considered apostates by Sunni clerics. Yet one reason why Assad remains in power despite being outnumbered by a rival sect is that many Sunnis are on his side, and their support is aiding his survival, say analysts and rebels.
Some Sunnis say they are repulsed by the anti-regime revolutionaries, some of whom are imported al-Qaeda terrorists. Others occupy privileged positions in Syrian society and do not want to abandon their livelihoods. Some believe the uprising is doomed to fail and do not wish to go down with it.
The rebel Free Syrian Army, specifically the aligned Jabhet Al Nusra fighters, are “nothing more than lunatics who kill everyone who disagrees with them,” Tarabishi says, while noting that the Assad regime is a secular one that tolerates diversity.
“President Assad is surely better than the political vacuum, religious hegemony, brutal, sectarian domination which would occasion on his downfall,” she says. “I believe anybody who took the time to monitor, absorb, and analyze the situation, especially given the recent deterioration on the ground, would logically stick to and support the government.”