Yeah. About as fascinating as China’s one-child-except-if-you-live-in-a-big-city-or-are-protected eugenics program.
Next thing you know they’ll be trying to claim asylum to the US so they can be extreme muzzies and intimidate other muzzies with the veil because Syria won’t let them
The Baathists, have always been a secular movement. They may, like their brethren, Saddam in Iraq, from time to time, use Islam when it’s to their advantage.
Interesting. Syria is like the Iraq of Saddam Hussein. It was an Islamist state, but only within limits; mostly it was a dictatorship based on “Islamic principles.” This indicates to me that the radical Islamists are picking up steam in Syria (probably thanks to the fact that we enshrined Islam in the Iraqi constitution).
No surprises there.
Syria is a secular totalitarian state. House Assad went to war against the Muslim Brotherhood in the early eighties and even bombarded to rubble and massacred an entire town that had rebelled.
The muzzie fanatics still hate the Assads. Bashar and his henchmen may funnel money and arms from Iran to the likes of Hezbollah and Hamas but their brand of islam is for EXPORT only. There is no power allowed in Syria but the all-encompassing state.
Just google “Hama”. Syria’s rulers have kept it just as it was ever since as a warning to others.
I’m surprised they don’t put dresses on the legs of pianos.
This is hugh and syria.
Syria is a dictatorship and there is an active domestic opposition to it, much of it Islamofascist in nature. The pragmatic dictator will do whatever is necessary to maintain his power; and if Islamism is the enemy, then Islamism must be confronted and controlled.
It's a clever move -- university graduates will go on to important positions in government and elsewhere, and that includes women. The women least likely to be affected by this ban are those who are least under the influence of Islamism ... and thus the concentration of potential allies is increased.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Racists!
Whoops! Thanks Pyro7480. This time for sure. [blush]