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Yorktown

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9. Absolutely not true

Reply to CJCRANE (Reply #8)

Mon Dec 21, 2015, 08:00 AM

Dec 2015

The world expert on Islamism, gilles Kepel, is on record saying Bachar invited the islamists to take over the Syrian rebellion to discredit it.

The Syrian uprising started as a movement of civil society, and grew militaristic under the FSA when Bachar started repressing demonstrations with artillery and torture.

That's when Bachar thought it clever to release the islamist leaders he had in the Syrian jails to create a "me or chaos" situation.

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Endangered Christians [View all] CJCRANE Dec 2015 OP

It happens to all religions HassleCat Dec 2015 #1

Except they were clinging on until we removed all the secular regimes. CJCRANE Dec 2015 #2

So... we should purge our own evangelical crusaders that caused the problem? AtheistCrusader Dec 2015 #16

True but ISIS/ Daesh are particularly vicious in their persecution of Christians, Yazidis and most LeftishBrit Dec 2015 #18

Because their governments help them. HassleCat Dec 2015 #21

The West in not in charge of managing religions worldwide Yorktown Dec 2015 #3

We removed the secular leader of Iraq,who accepted Christians. His second in command was a Christian CJCRANE Dec 2015 #4

The Iraq War was fantastically dumb. Supporting Morsi wasn't very wise. Yorktown Dec 2015 #5

So let the gulf sponsored islamist rebels slaughter all the christians, shias, yazidis CJCRANE Dec 2015 #6

Bachar and ISIS are equally horrible Yorktown Dec 2015 #7

The rebels were supported by islamists from the beginning. CJCRANE Dec 2015 #8

Absolutely not true Yorktown Dec 2015 #9

That's BS. Look up the leaked DIA memo from 2012 that said our regional allies supported an islamic CJCRANE Dec 2015 #10

The Islamists glommed on to the rebellion... LeftishBrit Dec 2015 #19

Many of us warned there would be unintended consequences for our military adventurism. AtheistCrusader Dec 2015 #17

The US supported elections in Egypt; they were lukewarm towards Morsi, despite him winning muriel_volestrangler Dec 2015 #11

The Egyptian military is the power in Egypt. CJCRANE Dec 2015 #14

That just adds to the lack of support the US showed for Morsi, though muriel_volestrangler Dec 2015 #15

Who 'supported' Morsi? LeftishBrit Dec 2015 #20

Linking edhopper Dec 2015 #12

The west is supporting the islamist rebels, 60% of whom share the same or similar ideology as Isis. CJCRANE Dec 2015 #13