The increasingly sectarian tone of the Syrian Civil War has seen Sunni militants flocking to the nation to join the rebel forces. They came en masse from Libya, from Egypt, recently a large influx came from Chechnya, but Great Britain?
Apparently so, as The Independent is reporting a wave of British jihadists flocking to Syria, with over 100 fighters now believed to be on the ground, fighting for assorted rebel factions, many of them al-Qaeda aligned.
The influx reflects Syria’s beginning to replace places like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia as the fashionable place for up-and-coming Islamist militants to be, fight a war endorsed not only by al-Qaeda’s leadership, but also by the British government.
Of course Britain isn’t encouraging its citizens to flock to Syria in such numbers to become fighters for a new Islamic Emirate, but it is actively working to change EU laws so they can ship them advanced weaponry to achieve their common goal. The long-term concern of what happens when these British citizens come home from war, or when their interest turns to a war the British government isn’t on the same side of, cannot be overstated.
The "sectarian tone" of the conflict in Syria is a media creation–and some here at AW.C lapped it up and went along with it since the very beginning…
Contrary to what has been repeated over and over by many idiot foreign policy pundits and the lame-stream media: there was no 'policy' (official or otherwise) by what's referred to as "the Assad regime" (meaning President Assad and his top leadership and family) to persecute and/or oppress the 'Sunnis' in Syria. This line/lie was invented and propagated mainly by Assad's (geo)political opposition, both domestically and abroad, for cynical reasons. In a sense, this is sort of a 'self-fulfilling prophecy. The "opposition" wanted this to be a "Sunni vs. Alawite" conflict because if it were, there would be no chance in hell Assad could win. I do not want to discount the idiots who genuinely believed this to be true (Assad persecuting the Sunnis and all) because they're just idiots and/or don't know what they're talking about, but make no mistake about it: this was a cynical ploy by people who knew better in an attempt to further their own agenda.
I don't think this angle will ultimately work in the end, and Assad is still very strong and fighting a very difficult and complicated international proxy war which is being waged against Syria by foreign state actors and their mercenary terrorist proxies…and Syria is doing extremely well all things considered.
But…this media hype/invention is even inspiring idiots from even Western societies to flock to Syria to fight what they think is some sort of romantic "holy-war"… obviously not a "civil war".
This line is based on hatred and plays on people's ignorance. It's similar to the NAZIs scapegoating the Jews in many ways…which definitely had practical political uses during Hitler's time. Instead of "the Jews" in NAZI Germany, the so-called "Syrian rebels" and loosely affiliated political figures decry "the Shabiha" and "the Alawites" in Syria…
I think this is a good example of how AW.C has failed here and played into the hands of the 'War Party'.
Agree.
I entirely agree with Ben-C in all that he has said.
However, for the Empire and its principal vassal states to claim (this is the major propaganda theme at the moment) that they are worried about the Covert Operation becoming more "sectarian" and Sunni Jihadists getting involved because of this is like the puppet master complaining about his string puppets getting out of hand in a puppet theatre.
The Jidahists were reactivated by the Empire BEFORE the Arab Winter Destabilisation and the launching of simultaneous Color Revolutions in 5 Arab counties as a geostrategic initiative to take control of the Arab world.
It was leaked 18 months ago in Britain.
pparantly hr Saudi advice was this was the only way it could possibly succeed.
This policy has also been described here as a policy of insanity, since they will not be able to control them.
I don't think it is the Assets around and in Syria who are responsible for this line, this is like Chuckie the ventriloquist's doll getting out of hand, it will be the official propaganda line from Washington and London.
It always happens, it happened over that place called Jugoslavia and with Afghanistan, those influenced by Jihadist thology flock from Britain to join in.
So Cameron, beaming with a smile in the photograph, is in trouble.
It was also said in The Times "once president Assad has deakt with his Jihadists in Syria we should invite him to Britain to deal with ours. He appears to have the only arguments they understand"
The Saudis investment in masques in Europe is enormous.., London belongs to Saudis king .., from Sweden to London to Italy and other part of Europe their religious investment is about demolishing the European democracy.., whatever is left of it. We did informed anti war.com few months back regarding this issue and suggested for anti war.com to arm Jason with a camera and send him to Berlin and or London and watch the flight from either city international airport to see the passengers bound for Istanbul-turkey. Look Jason.., the Syrian war has nothing to do with democracy nor liberty or any matter relating these social issues.., the Syrian war is an agreement between USA, Europe and Saudis to have their non democratic, a barbarians regimes established in Syria.., the other reason for this war is to demolish the unity between Iran, Iraq, Syria, Russia and china…, now get your camera and travel a little bit.., if nothing is good for you.., you will learn thing or two.
The good thing of all this is that these fighters will be combat seasoned and then they will return to Britain. And then how sweet justice!