As the ongoing Syrian Civil War continues to get bloodier and more religious in tone, foreign fighters, who have been a real part of the conflict for a long time, are flocking to the nation in droves for a war that is less and less about Syria, and more about the age-old Sunni-Shi’ite schism.
The rebellion has relied on foreign jihadists to do heavy lifting almost from the start, when al-Qaeda openly endorsed them, and with the Egyptian government giving its own imprimatur, Egyptian Salafists are now planning to head to Syria to join the war.
As the rebellion becomes more religious and more foreign, regional Shi’ites are taking notice too which large numbers planning to take up arms and head to Syria to defend the Assad government from the “savages.”
Syria is the pretext, and Syria is the battleground, but a religious dispute that dates back to 632 and the death of Mohammed, the founder of Islam, is front and center in the conflict. The fate of Syria is increasingly an afterthought.
"About Religious divided"…, where do you find such subject to even consider to be a subject of a subject for discussion Jason…., what is that.., what is the meaning of these words? look: these wars are religious wars.., is about the religious social politics, is about limiting democracy.., as in Turkey.., or demolishing the democracy all together as in Libya and Egypt. . Democracy is something from the past.., mankind facing the Neo Fascism and religion fanatics is part of the west politics to divide nations letting them to kill each other while they stealing the nation wealth.., look: if there was a democracy in Saudi Arabia do you think that there would be a war in Syria or Libya..? look at Iraq.., look at Libya.., go back 60 years look at Congo.., over 6million Congolese are killed and there is a on going wars between divided religious or not groups and they all are feed by the west and others., if there was a democracy, which there is in Middle East but the movement is not of a important and interests of the west foreign policy, do you think that Israel would be able to do what it dose.. Look: these elements are a created hinder for democracy to grow, not only in Middle East but as well as everywhere, these elements are used and they are the last resort for USA and EU to be considered the enemy of my enemy is my friend… Do you get it Jadon..?? Just wait you have seen nothing yet.., this is just the beginning I mean surveillance.
And what Ditz conveniently fail to mention is that this new turn of the Syrian war didn´t just materialized out of nothing but was of course instigated by the western fascist regimes and their spy agencies, with "israel" as always in these matters,lurking in the background with "advices" on how to fight their wars.
With BRICS Russia, China and the rest of the free world hell bent on not allowing another western "humanitarian" bloodbath as in Libya, CIA just coulnd´t have it another way than have their local puppets in the Muslim brotherhood regimes and the medieval Gulf monarchies pushing for their interpretation of Islam and to send their retarded Al-Qaeda apes. With tons of Am/"israeli" .weapons.
Turning the whole middle east into chaos and civil wars with millions of deaths just to save their bloody faces and have Al Assad gone is the worst heinous act so far even for USA and it´s Zionist masters.
If they think the Zionist abomination could ride this one out unaffected they better think again….
"Bloomberg plays hoax against Obama"
"On June 18, 2013, Jeffrey Goldberg of Bloomberg News wrote a story outlining what he purported to a White House meeting during which Secretary of State Kerry advocated the immediate bombing of Syria.
That story has now been exposed as a total hoax, fed to Bloomberg, not by a “White House leaker” but rather a “construct” by a foreign intelligence agency as part of a wide “psyop” meant to exploit tensions between the US and Russia. "
Completely off, Jason. Completely.
if the wahabis take over syria, it will become an arab taleban and they will exterminate all the shia and christians. THe shia are justified in defending themselves
On a person to person basis, there's been peace between Sunni and Shiite for hundreds of years. Yes, we all know about Saddam Hussein's repression of Shiite political activity before, during and after Gulf War I, but there were also many mixed marriages in Iraq. There were Shiites high within the Ba'ath Party, and Christians as well. The sectarian civil war there was instigated by the US government. The US funded Shiite "elite" death squad units to counterbalance the Sunni opposition to the US government. After Fallujah, US officials talked openly about the "El Salvador" option. Without US instigation, there would never have bee the sectarian strife in Iraq.
The same thing has happened in Syria. I just watched the Frontline documentary on Syria. They interviewed people on both sides. The one thing Syrians all agreed about was that there were many Sunni-Shia friendships before the start of the civil war. The sectarian character of the war there was instigated by Saudi Arabia and Qatar's interference and funding of Salafist jihadis.
I'm so sick of USans looking down their noses at Arabs and Muslims for being "tribal" or "sectarian." You think the US is immune? We never had a Catholic President until 1960. If there were a powerful foreign power with an organization like the CIA, they could easily ignite a race war here in the US, or even a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. All they'd need is to fund a few crazies to start shooting up Catholic or Protestant churches or blow up a few cathedrals. But there's no foreign power doing that here.