Re: Saudia seeks Pakistani help for Syria War
Well, I learned the kind of guy Altaf is very early. But I was kinda forced to stick to continue defending the party because I believe many people abuse Altaf and MQM due to ethnic prejudice. I know bad things related to MQM but it is unsettling to see people making Altaf or MQM equivalent to devils, calling them names, and abusing them on totally false senseless premises.
About Syria, Assad is a dictator just like any other M.E. dictator. What he did was nothing new. All of his neighbors did similar things to their population at some point of time. You can search this forum. You will see that I did not lend any support to Assad in the beginning of opposition protests for freedom. I was annoyed only when Saudis and other dictators jumped in to help against their fellow-dictator only because of his beliefs, and did not care that their financial support was going to the worst of the human-beings in the present world.
About Syria and Bahrain, Assad may be a brutal dictator in face of opposition agitating to throw him out of government, but in normal conditions he is a secular person for sure. There was no religious persecution in Syria against Sunnis or anyone else. This is unlike places like Bahrain or Saudis or Malaysia.
I do not call everyone in Syrian opposition as al Qaeda. As always, you are reading between the lines. But only an ignorant or a prejudiced bigot would say that khariji takfiris are not the most powerful and most effective group in opposition. I can quote several articles to prove this point. If Assad really is gone, it would be nothing but al Qaeda taking control of the country. It would be a nightmare for not just minorities in Syria but also for the Muslim world in general.
So my support to Assad is not for the love of him but out of fear of the devils in opposition.