Posted on 06/21/2013 9:55:04 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
CAIRO — He was young and bright, with an education from Egypt’s premier school of Islamic studies and lucrative job offers in the Gulf.
But Bilal Farag chose a different path, friends say, one that led him to die on a distant Syrian battlefield while fighting Shiite Muslims he regarded as infidels.
“Everybody has their own goal in life,” said a close friend, Hosam Ali. “Bilal’s was to be a martyr.”
Waves of Egyptians are now preparing to follow, fired by the virulently sectarian rhetoric of Sunni preachers and encouraged by the newly permissive policies of Egypt’s Islamist government. In recent days, this city’s ancient mosques have crackled with calls for jihad, as hard-line Sunni Muslim leaders command the faithful to respond to recent escalations in Syria by the Shiite forces of Iran and Hezbollah.
The Sunni backlash has echoed far beyond Egypt, penetrating every corner of the region, where divisions between the rival Muslim sects are hardening fast. At the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, the top cleric broke down in tears on pan-Arab television last week as he pleaded with his fellow Muslims to help the Syrian rebels “by all means.”
Foreign militants have long played a critical role in the Syrian uprising, but the prospect of a fresh flow of radicalized fighters bent on waging sectarian war threatens to complicate the Obama administration’s recently announced strategy to arm the rebellion’s moderate factions. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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The Sunni and the Shiite Islamists are engaging in a power struggle that has the potential to keep both sides occupied for decades to come.
The smartest thing we could do is stay far away and let them sort it out.
Or, as Sarah Palin said, let Allah sort it out.
May they kill each other for the next thousand years.
It’s a muzzie ballroom blitz. Sweet. They can martyr one another and give the civilized world a break.
LET THE CHINESE AND EUROPEANS WORRY ABOUT THE OIL.
Why are you yelling, dirty?
Maybe the reason for the influx of militant foreigners is that we just BOUGHT them all a bunch of NEW , BRIGHT, and SHINY WEAPONS.
Well... China and Europe are really far away.
My eyes are still OK, while my hearing and teeth are so-so.
Recently I’ve had to rent a chewing-mouth dog.
The smartest thing we could do is start a travel service.
May they kill each other for the next thousand years.
Yep. The reality is that one of the two sides will win and they both hate the West - particularly the little satan and big satan.
Their focus will inevitably bring Jihad to the West after they sort out their own affairs.
So does this mean they are giving themselves their 42 virgins to eachother? Wow that is something =)
They are not civilized enough to sort out their differences. This goes all of the way back to who the legitimate successor of Mohammed was
We need to encourage their strife until they are burnt out as people and religion
The idea here is to keep all these happy “religious” folks at each other’s throats in perpetuity.
This can be done through judicious applications of arms and ammunition to whichever side appears to be losing at any given moment.
Pass the popcorn, please.
Got any beer?
Good. Let Allah sort them out....
“It seems that a giant container ship broke and sank and lost what is apparently a crap load of high end weapons to Al-Qaeda in Syria from the USA “ - Vlad
Have some vodka & laugh a bit here @ #5:
http://vladtepesblog.com/2013/06/21/links-and-news-for-june-21-2013-2/
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It's probably my imagination, but at the least the reporting of additional support for Assad has ramped up since BHO put his food down.
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