Posted on 10/11/2012 10:14:43 PM PDT by Milagros
Horror - Child left dead on Syrian sidewalk Catholic Online-Oct 4, 2012 The civil war which has wracked Syria has taken its toll on civilians with somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 casualties. Observers believe ...
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
I am not advocating to intervene... Just pointing out that Muslim on Muslim global violence s NOT because of US “policies.”
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Syrian army pushing rebels out of Damascus, activists say
TheNewsTribune.com-Oct 1, 2012
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The Syrian Network for Human Rights listed 483 women and children as among the dead across the country.
Violence had ebbed from an initial high in February and dropped in April and May after the announcement of a United Nations-backed peace plan. But violence escalated again in June as the plan fell apart and neither side showed a willingness to negotiate.
The Syrian government stopped publicizing casualties among the army and security forces earlier this year, though in June the Syrian government’s own reports indicated rebels were sometimes killing dozens of soldiers each day. The number of total dead in the conflict is now likely more than 35,000.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/10/01/2316702/syrian-army-pushing-rebels-out.html
By David Enders | McClatchy Newspapers
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/10/01/170248/syrian-army-pushing-rebels-out.html
soetoro approves most heartily....
Syria is the location of a proxy war between all groups in the middle east fighting for power. Syria will not be left alone, or decisively resolved, for probably meny years.
The video was very instructive as to what’s being happening for 18mos. People started the socalled Arab Spring and then left them...jihad has taken over...was it planned to happen that way...who knows. It reminds me of the genuine Iranian uprising when we did nothing.
Meekly Obama that never shuts his mouth, chose —all-of-a-sudden— to be silent, and not uttering a word of US’ moral support to the 2009-Iran protesters
Iran and Syria are Shi’ite countries. The Sunni Muslim Brotherhood are the chosen ones. Not sticking up for Assad but think he’s trying to get rid of terrorists infiltrating from the Sunni countries. I think Syria has been the most tolerant of Catholics and other religions out of all of them.
If you removed the apostrophe, you'd be right.
On one hand yes, on the other hand they -with Hezbollah and Palestinians- have inflicted crimes on the Christians in Lebanon, since, at least the Damour 1976 massacre...
Very sad to see children suffer the evil embraced by the ideologues and ignorant.
This is not the way of Christ. This is Islam.
The Christian Lebanese felt sorry and let thousands of muslim refugees in...that’s how Hezbollah arrived in the south and it;s been downhill from there for Lebanon. One can’t give any of them an inch.
And SOB! if I ever imagined that in my lifetime I'd be rooting for the survival of an Assad regime in Syria. How the world has changed....
lol
“But whom does Obama want to replace them with?”
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Great question. That’s why I say to him, hands off.
Why am I only seeing this story on Catholic.org?
(Not to put it down, I’m Catholic, but it should be on the national news channels!)
It beats me too.
The Religion of Piece.
A couple of weeks ago, I read that the muslim brotherhood has given Jordan an ultimatum that would kick in October 15th if they did not comply with their demands or else they will send 50,000 muslims into their country like they did Egypt. I can’t remember where I read it.
the arab SPRING has SPRUNG
As Syria War Roils, Unrest among sects hits Turkey
New York Times, August 4, 2012 Jeffrey Gettleman
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/world/middleeast/turkish-alawites-fear-spillover-of-violence-from-syria.html
These are my notes from the above article
The Alevis and Alawites don’t follow some Islamic traditions and in Turkey they are a persecuted minority.
Syria’s government troops are predominately Alawites while the majority of Syria is Sunni.
The Alevis are mostly ethnic Turks between 15 or 20 million strong.
The Alawites in Turkey is less than a million.
Turkey’s government and most Sunnis support Syrian rebels.
The Alevis and Alawites support Bashar al-Assad.
Turkey is becoming more Sunni influenced and has teamed up with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, both Sunni, to oust Assad.
Assad has made Syria one of the most secular countries in the Middle East.
In Eastern Turkey, the Alawite women sport tank tops and tight jeans.
That is one of the saddest pictures I’ve ever seen.
Thanks Milagros.
Michael Weaver posted this on Facebook:
- Obama: "I want to make sure we end before the call to prayer"
- Iran Deploys Troops, Ballistic Missiles To Eritrea [2008]
As most violence all around the globe today, it's either Islamic hatred against non-Muslims, or intra-Islamic-bigotry.
Great pic. Is it really up somewhere?
Thanks Milagros, link saved. Something just seems so wrong about Syria and both Obama and Romney backing the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood. Assad may be the bad guy, but isn’t the Muslim Brotherhood worse? Shouldn’t we be supporting the Alawites? I must be missing something.
I agree. I think we should at least adopt a ‘wait and see’ state.
Yup. It’s all about values.
Probably, and it is one of many. Not sure I really need to see it this evening.
I wonder how many dead women and children there would be if a large amount of US citizens decided to overthrow the government. How many were there during our civil, war which was quite a long time ago? I don’t like Assad, but doesn’t he have the right to protect his right to continue to rule his country? From what I have seen many that attempt to take these countries over are worse than the leaders they have taken over, all in the name of democracy, but actually more like for the Muslim Brotherhood=, which is suppose to be democratic but doesn’t look like they are once they get in. Do we, as a Country, really have the right to decide to help mobs overthrow the rulers of other countries? Is there a legal basis to helping the Muslim Brotherhood take overthrow the rulers of many countries? If we do, someone please tell me the legal and moral basis for this is.
We should stay out of it. There are no good guys there.
If we really cared about them, we’d do what Ann Colter
said over 11 years ago.
Ryan was right in saying that Obam's admin. erred in calling Assad a "reformer," the error was done when the Muslm Brotherhood was NOT the main force of the anti-Assad regime.
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