Originally posted by Vangelovski
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I do not deny that the Syrian government/army has done some brutal things. I do not deny that innocent people have been killed (on both sides). My main issues with this “rebellion” in Syria is the double standards, hypocrisy from the world powers, and also the fakeness of people saying that the “rebels” getting their way is “democracy” and that this is about human rights.
For example, it is reported that the large majority of Syrians support the government. At first I thought this might have been the Syrian government paying people to cheer for them, but these sources come from western news articles, and also there is lots of reports and footage of Syrians in Australia and Europe cheering for the Al-Assad government. So the question is, why should the government step down, when it has the support of the majority of the people, and it’s only a few small amounts of people that want a regime change. How is that democratic?
Secondly, we seem to be putting the crimes that the Syrian government has done to its civilians on a magnifying glass (and perhaps rightly so), but at the same time seem to be ignoring the crimes that the “rebels” have done to the government, and also citizens who are loyal to the government, and even citizens who are neutral to the whole thing. We have seen the “rebels” attack Christians or minorities like the kurds, basically people who are not towing the fanatical Whahabi fundamentalist line. We have seen the “rebels” being like suicide bombers, or carrying around weapons and firing on the police/army and even civilians. The “rebels” seem to get off scot free with the crimes they did, but I guess they can kill or force people to do what they want because the TV tells us that they are the good guys?
And on the crimes that have committed, I cant deny that the Syrian government has not done any, but at the same time, these rebels are pretty much putting a target on themselves by attacking civilians who are loyal to the government, and also the police and army.
Imagine if foreign influences started coming into Australia, armed and financed say a population in a small Australian town/city, and this population then started attacking the Australian police, then army, and later supporters of the Australian government(civilians). What would you expect the Australian government to do? I would imagine you would fight back to stop them killing more civilians.
I also think that a lot of the stories we here about what is happening in Syria are exaggerated. Remember the Human rights reports about the hundreds of thousands of dead shiptars in Kosovo? When in fact it was really just a few thousand. I don’t truest anything that I hear on the news these days. Its usually propaganda to stir up the masses and later we find out we have been lied to. And as the leaks of the arab report show, some of the stories have been exaggerated, and the “rebels” are not so innocent.
I also find it quite ironic that we have Saudi Arabia telling Syria to be “democratic” when in fact in Saudi Arabia woman are not allowed to drive, you cant build a church in that country, and females must were the hijab. Saudi Arabia is not a democracy as its ruled by the royal family. Syria is light years away when compared to freedom and living standards.
When I see a small minority attacking the government, police and later civilians so that they can have their way, It reminds me of what happened in Macedonia in 2001. It reminds me of the lies of Al-Jazeera TV made towards Macedonia.
When I see the Saudi’s fund and worm their way into desperate people so that they can persue their own fanatical interests it reminds me of how the bosniaks, torbeshi and Albanians have been transofmred into fanatics. My view is that fantical religion, especially islam is a huge problem, and that the best form of government is a secular and nationalist, the ones we have seen in Turkey, and to a lesser extent Syria.
And this may sound evil from me, but i have no sympathy of supporters of Al-Queda or extreme Whahabi islam. They deserve everything they get.
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