With Syria’s Civil War taking on an ever growing sectarian angle, the nation’s various religious minorities, even the ones that weren’t directly involved in the fight in the first place, are starting to take up arms and form militias of their own.
What was initially a battle between Sunni rebels and an Alawite-dominated government now has new factions, with Druze and Christians setting up militias to police their own neighborhoods and keep the other sides out.
Neighborhoods setting up their own militias for defense is nothing new, and several blocs did the same thing in Cairo during the revolution there. The difference is that the Egyptian revolution was virtually over at this point, while the Syrian Civil War seems to still be escalating.
With more and more armed groups in close proximity, the war just gets that much more complicated, particularly with the al-Qaeda linked portions of the rebels likely to treat the new militias as even more serious enemies as the military.
Syrians to protect themselves and their property from US backed death squads,quelle surprise!. I wonder what Jason Ditz would do in a similar scenario, if someone was preventing the steady flow of his hot meals?
you see what he is doing – he paints us a picture of "an ever growing sectarian" Syria and even is censoring his own source which informs as that THE SECURITY FORCES DO HELP THE MILITIAS !
So it is a move of UNIFICATION of Government and people who get arms – against the terrorists.
However, also the Libyans and Iraqi got arms of their alleged "dictators" – this only helps against terrorists, but is not sufficient when NATO is carpet bombing the light armed people.
I guess to justify NATO bombing is the aim of Jason Ditz when he draws this bad Srian picture of secretarian militias that could kill each other mutually, without "HELP" of NATO::
Jason Ditz does a hard job and tries to fulfill it excellently, but convincing antiwar movement of NATO bombing is not easy. They count, that nobody reads the discussions and only are checking the main article and the beginning, without checking. I would not be surprised when they are financed by the republicans or their friends.
Thinking about the matter shows that Syria is not under the control of one sect or the others, it tells that Syria is consist of many nationality and culture and they been living side by side until these bandits and barbarians have arrived from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere destroying what is a cultural center which world needs to learn from.
What these barbarians have done shows the fact that after starting this mess and by US and EU Liberal fascism supporting these barbarians everyone needs to protect themselves by arming themselves.
In my view Jason Ditz tries in this article to manipulate a new step of chaos in Syria when he speaks about "an ever growing sectarian angle" . He says they "are starting to take up arms and form militias of their own", but does not answer the immediate rising questions from where do the arms come?!
They could come from USA, Saudis, Qataris, which would be totally different thing, as when they came from the Syrian Army of course.
But the source he refers to has the information he did left away:
"Residents say groups are backed by security forces"
I think this is a very good solution to arm the people. Armed people means people have the power.
The army can not be everywhere, but the US urban guerrila terrorists can. Otherwise the people are helpless victims and are just massacred as in HOULA or taken as human shields. Sometimes the US terrorists even used civilians as human bombs and did show extreme unbelievable gruelty in cutting of limbs, heads and burning their victims.
I THINK THIS CAN LED TO STABILIZATION and unity of Syrian people against the US terrorists – actually it already shows unity and trust between people and government and unity against the invaders.
There will come hard times for the US KILLERS – even a boy can shoot them in the back.
I wish them all the best !
This is getting old Jason…
Considering the fact that these "militias" did not exist before, they obviously have been formed NOW to protect themselves, with the help of and in conjunction with the Syrian Government security forces, against the "TERRORIST" 'rebel' scum…which even your source posted can't even deny…which is common sense…
This crap of making up your own reality (on top of the made up lame-stream reality) is only hurting your credibility…