Posted on 04/26/2011 6:11:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
It took just two weeks for the International Criminal Court to begin investigating Gaddafi, his sons and commanders over allegations their security forces had attacked peaceful demonstrators.
More than six weeks into Syria's unrest, Assad's security forces are gunning down their own people in their hundreds and the west still has not moved beyond words of condemnation.
Last month the ICC prosecutor said he was examining claims 300 civilians had been killed in Tripoli, 257 in Benghazi and 124 in Zawiya. There are now reliable reports of around 400 civilians being killed by Syrian security forces.
And yet so far the Assad regime seems immune from any referral to the ICC. For that to happen the UN Security Council would need to act and thus far there seems little appetite for action against the Syrian regime...
The White House wants the Syrians to move on from slaughtering their own civilians with tanks and guns and towards 'serious reform', as if it is all on the same curve.
Barack Obama's spokesman also told reporters it is "up to the Syrian people to decide who their leader should be."
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Barack Obama's spokesman also told reporters it is "up to the Syrian people to decide who their leader should be."Zero needs Syria's military when he starts the war against Israel.
Exactly. Gadaffi had scaled back his terrorist activities and is no longer of much use to the far left, while Assad is continuing to actively murder as many innocent Jews and Christians as possible. The left wants to protect Assad so he can do the work that they celebrate privately, without liberals having to get their own hands bloody.
I didn’t know we had any standards when it came to these freaks.
And now they’re doubled.
Wish in one hand...**** in the other, I guess.
Assad murdering Christians? Source please.
Shouldn't the Secretary of State handle communications with press on International Affairs?
Marginalizing Hillary publicly again?
Thanks Pollster1.
She marginalized herself when she took the job, and simultaneously destroyed her “3 AM phone call” criticism of the inexperienced, ignorant, bigoted cipher who won the election.
/bingo
it is important for all us Americans to know the troubles facing Christians in the Middle East
In Syria, we may not like Bashir Assad, but he protects the Christians there.
When Saddam fell in 2003, there were 2 million Christians in Iraq, now there are 400,000 and dropping. These are Christians who have been there since Apostolic times, but their lives and churches and communities are being destroyed. Saddam was an evil dictator but the Christians were protected from the jihadis
Syria is 20% Christian - the Christians from Iraq are there. If Assad falls, Christians will be driven from Damascus etc. where they have lived since their ancestors were converted by the Apostles.
We must NOT support the rebels, the jihadis. Bashir is the lesser of two evils and unfortunately the evil that protects Christians from the greater evil, Islam.
Remember also that Bashir Assad is not a Moslem -- he and his father are Allawis, a sect that even Moslems condemn as non-Moslem because they merge a lot of Christianity with some Gnostic elements and use the superficialities of Islam. Theirs is a secretive religion to prevent persecution, but they are a separate community from both Shias and Sunnis, both of whom consider them non-Moslem
According to the State Department Country Reports on Terrorism, Syria actively supports multiple terrorist organizations: "The Syrian government continued to provide political and material support to Hizballah and political support to Palestinian terrorist groups. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), HAMAS, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), among others, base their external leadership in Damascus."
While this is not the same as the genocide we may face among Syrian Christians if Assad is deposed, he does support terrorism although apparently not Al Qaeda, and there have been specific attacks that killed Christians (including friends of mine) that received Syrian support or for which the Iranian support passed through Syria with Syrian government knowledge and tacit approval. Decent people have very few friends in that region, and Assad is definitely not one of our friends. Note: I understand and agree with you that his replacement may be even worse if he is deposed or when he eventually dies.
Also, they are a secretive religion, but what we do know is that they are supposed to be linked to the Shias, but Sunnis do not consider them Moslem and the Ulama consider that they are polytheists
They do not reveal their religion.
Sufis are different -- they are the mystical branch of Sunnis that arose after interaction with the devotional methods from India. Their beliefs are always strictly orthodox, though some of their practises are considered wrong by Wahabbis. This is unlike the Druze or Alawis whose very fundamental beliefs in the nature of God are not in line with the Sunni/Shia.
Sikhs would hate to be called Moslem (have a couple of Sikh friends) and their religion has a different Holy Book, the Guru Granth Sahib written by Guru Nanak. They may have some "ideas" from Islam like monotheism etc. but they do not have the same core beliefs
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