Shooting Intensively to Terrorize Citizens
The Arab League looks on with repugnant dismay, at what is occurring in Syria. They feel, however, indisposed to intervene. This they did in Libya, encouraging NATO to become involved, to help make a quicker end to the uprising. What has occurred there instead, as far as they are concerned, is a prolongation of the civil war, with more people dying than would perhaps have done if things played out on their own without outside intervention.Syrian protest groups have, like the Libyan rebels before them, sought the assistance of the West. Perhaps they sought assistance from the Arab League as well. Perhaps they now understand that there will be none forthcoming. Western powers, though, are utterly outraged at the lies issuing from the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, and most certainly so at the extent of the brutality unleashed by the Syrian military against civilians.
Syrian civilians' human rights are being violated, they fume. In fact, Syrians have no assurance of human rights under the al-Assad regime. That was abundantly clear before the uprising, and has become manifest during it, with government tanks attacking, firing heavy machine guns randomly within the rebel cities, killing as many protesters as possible. A reprise, as it were, of the Libyan regime's response to a similar uprising.
The Syrian state agency complacently assures its population and the world at large that its military entered Hama for a precise reason; to defeat armed militias "shooting intensively to terrorize citizens". It is not, as the outside world perceives to be the case, the Syrian military terrorizing its own citizens, but rather the military desperately attempting to protect its citizens from the depredations of militias spurred on by foreign interests.
Strange how the message becomes corrupted. Odd how the world stubbornly, obviously and inconveniently erroneously, refuses to believe Bashar al Assad; perplexing beyond words. In honour of Ramadan, the President of Syria would dearly love to clear up this little misunderstanding between himself and his disloyal citizens in Hama.
Ramadan, after all, is the holiest month of the Islamic calendar.
"Throughout history, Ramadan has been the month of revolutions and victory. I think it will inspire the youths of the Arab Spring to complete their struggles against injustice and tyranny", explains Abdullah al-Amadi. Which appears to be what President al-Assad seems to anticipate, that the nightly Ramadan prayers will spur the revolutionaries to view each day as a Friday, customary through tradition to incite to violence and mayhem.
Try that on for size: the holiest of months when the pious fast from sunup to sundown to cleanse their bodies and spirits from impurities, a process which leads traditionally to violence and mayhem. Obviously broadly and incorrectly interpreted. Much like considering Islam, as its practitioners aver, to be a religion of peace.
Labels: Conflict, Islam, Middle East, Political Realities
posted by Pieface @ Monday, August 01, 2011
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