As Syria’s civil war continues on, it has taken on an increasingly sectarian nature, and the rebellion is now dominated by factions affiliated either directly or ideologically with al-Qaeda, including the assorted al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and Jabhat al-Nusra factions.
Though there are surely Syrian Islamists fighting in these groups, large numbers of the jihadist fighters are foreigners, and their motivations don’t begin or end at the Syrian border.
Far from seeing Syria as a special case, these rebels see Syria as the beginning of a region-wide religious war, with the goal of installing ultra-conservative theocracies across the Muslim world.
The imposition of Taliban-style Sharia law in parts of northern Syria has been a major culture shock for Syrians, who have for centuries had relatively secular governments.
Most of the non-Sunnis in those towns are simply fleeing, since the foreign fighters are eager to call any religious minorities, from Alawites to Christians, pro-Assad infiltrators. Those who are staying behind are seeing very awkward attempts by al-Qaeda to do “outreach” to sell the locals on their style of rule. Those towns in the Aleppo Province are now ground zero for a region-wide war.
There is no seats or bench or a bed room reserved in heaven for any one of these barbarians sent from Saudi Arabia and UAE, non of the killed ones have come back to prove the story about virgins and etc, in delusional terms they been promised by their masters and EU-USG is helping them to expend Saudis and UAE religious territory to create the only heaven they know. These people are as false as USG democracy is, promising this one day the other next day yet nothing happens.
Every government involved playing their roll accordingly, Turkish government get paid by NATO, Jordanian get paid by USG, Israelis have been paid for years but their demands changes by the day, Saudis and UAE started their religious cooperation with Balkan wars, now they are ordering the EU-USG what to do.
Syrian war is about expending the Saudis and UAE religious totalitarian regime in the region and beyond, that's what these people are saying, if you are not able to get it, then get out of the business writing about politics. Religious is not a ideology, is a delusional idea which "they" FORCING people to believe that religious is ideology, the only idea that able to stop the truth is the idea/s that's not proven to be true. The barbaric Religious systems is the only idea valued by some over and above the delusional thinking, it is a tool that can stop socialism, functioning democracy and democracy itself by enforcing such system on people, that's what the Syrian war is about and that what these barbarians are saying.
So the jihadists the Saudis sent want West Asia to be a Saudi colony in all but name? What a surprise. Who could ever have imagined it?
Well, everyone but the "Hollywood liberals" and the Western mass media, but then who cares about everyone anymore.
the saudis/gulf state may have unlimited funds to buy jihardists mercs and /or brainwash the weak/desperate into being cannon fodder, but they will not succeed in establishing anything like a wahabbi khalifa everywhere.. why, because the vast majority of ME people will not go along with this, they have more real immediate worries like earning a living and so forth[ like everyone else], the so called jihardists could not organise themselves out of a paper bag let alone run a complex state w/o outside strings being pulled…also i doubt that the saudis will have enough money in the long run to support anything which is forced onto an unwilling population….But they may succeed in causing further chaos and mayhem [overreach] …but i think this may be the plan b anyhow- rule over chaos for whose nbenefit? ISrael/us/EU take your pick as to who would benefit from a broken and divided ME….anything these evil bunch of diviisive narrowminded dreamers/traitors to their own people and the ME try to push onto to other will fail int he long run since they do not have any vision worthwhile following.
There are millions of Muslims in the Middle East; if they wanted shari'a law to be the law of the land and the basis for their various nation's governments, they would have made it so a long time ago.
Considering this hasn't happened despite centuries of Islam being the dominant religion in the region, this calls into question either the commitment of Muslims to this very basic part of Islam or it calls into question the validity of shari'a law itself as being a viable alternative in today's world. In any case, if shari'a laws were a welcome change to secular government, there would be no need to 'sell' it to the local Syrian population.
the reality is there are many factors at play when it comes to who rules and the form of govt in the ME- now and in the past..
there are many interpretations of islam and a variety of interpretations of how to implement sharia in the real world consider the ottomans with their parrallel civil codes…consider other empires on the ME and their solution to balance religious ideas and needs of the state/empire
compare with relatively unsophisticated tribal states of saudi and the gulf and their use of religion to keep people down[ not the intent of Islam where all believers are equal…and where there should be respect and toleration to non muslims as fellow human beings sharing this planet…