He is Nusayri, Sidi. They are of the Zindeeqs who believe that 'Ali was Allah in human form on earth. I don't think that they consider themselves Muslims.
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He is Nusayri, Sidi. They are of the Zindeeqs who believe that 'Ali was Allah in human form on earth. I don't think that they consider themselves Muslims.
The United Nations human rights committee has passed a resolution condemning Syria's crackdown on opposition protests.
It also called on Damascus to implement an Arab League plan to end the violence.
The resolution, drafted by Britain, France and Germany, carries moral but not legal weight.
The move comes as Syrian activists said another 33 people, including six children, had been killed across Syria.
Earlier, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down to avoid further bloodshed.
The vote took place at the UN in New York. The three nations who drafted the resolution hope it will be a first step to bringing the issue back to the UN Security Council.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15834540
It also called on Damascus to implement an Arab League plan to end the violence.
The resolution, drafted by Britain, France and Germany, carries moral but not legal weight.
The move comes as Syrian activists said another 33 people, including six children, had been killed across Syria.
Earlier, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down to avoid further bloodshed.
The vote took place at the UN in New York. The three nations who drafted the resolution hope it will be a first step to bringing the issue back to the UN Security Council.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15834540
France has called for the creation of humanitarian corridors in Syria, as President Bashar al-Assad's forces reportedly gunned down at least four civilians in a new round of violence.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, who met exiled Syrian opposition leader Burhan Ghaliun in Paris, said he would take to Brussels the idea of escape routes for civilians fleeing Assad's forces.
"If there could be a humanitarian dimension to the zones, which could be secured to protect the population, that's a question that must be studied," Juppe said, adding that he considered Ghaliun's Syrian National Council (SNC) a "legitimate interlocutor".
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-new...l-four-ahead-of-new-talks-20111124-1nvlp.html
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, who met exiled Syrian opposition leader Burhan Ghaliun in Paris, said he would take to Brussels the idea of escape routes for civilians fleeing Assad's forces.
"If there could be a humanitarian dimension to the zones, which could be secured to protect the population, that's a question that must be studied," Juppe said, adding that he considered Ghaliun's Syrian National Council (SNC) a "legitimate interlocutor".
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-new...l-four-ahead-of-new-talks-20111124-1nvlp.html
For one (and most importantly), Syria is located in an area where instability in the country can cause severe and unwanted problems to the rest of the region (mostly Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel). Indeed, Assad is not bluffing when he threatens to shower thousands of missiles (some chemical) on Israel. This is one main reason why America has been slow to react to the uprising taking place in Syria.
I don't think that Israel gives a bottle of rat urine for Syria's missiles. Arab armies in general are a big joke.
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Syrian forces 'torture children as young as 13'
By Joseph Eid | AFP – Fri, Feb 3, 2012
Children as young as 13 are a particular target in the "rampant" use of torture by Syrian government forces battling opposition protests, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday.
The United Nations says hundreds of children have been killed in the crackdown over the past 10 months, and the rights group highlighted cases of children shot in their homes or on the street, or grabbed from schools.
It documented 12 cases of children tortured in detention centres and said many more may have suffered similar treatment.
"In many cases, security forces have targeted children just as they have targeted adults," said Lois Whitman, children’s rights director at the New York-based Human Rights Watch.
The group's report said more than 100 people who had been held by security forces "described rampant use of torture in detention centres against even the youngest detainees, even beyond the 12 cases specifically documented."
"Children, some as young as 13, reported to Human Rights Watch that officers kept them in solitary confinement, severely beat and electrocuted them, burned them with cigarettes, and left them to dangle from metal handcuffs for hours at a time, centimetres above the floor," the report said.
The parents of one 13-year-old boy from Latakia said he was detained for nine days in December after being accused of burning photos of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, inciting protests and vandalizing security forces’ cars.
Security officers burned the boy with cigarettes on his neck and hands and threw boiling water on him, the parents were quoted as saying.
Another 13-year-old told Human Rights Watch that security forces tortured him for three days at a military security branch after he was detained in May.
He said he fell unconscious after being electrocuted on the stomach.
"When they interrogated me the second time, they beat me and electrocuted me again. The third time they had some pliers, and they pulled out my toenail," the boy was quoted as saying.
Most Syrian schools are now closed because of the unrest, in which thousands have been killed since last March. Many of the schools have been turned into detention centres with snipers prowling the rooftops.
Parents told Human Rights Watch that it was too dangerous to let their children out onto the streets.
One man from Homs said he stopped letting his 10-year-old son go to school because of snipers targeting Brazil Street, the main road leading to the school in one of the cities that has borne the brunt of the deadly crackdown.
"We called it ‘the street of death’," he was quoted as saying.
Teenagers told Human Rights Watch how mass arrests were carried out.
One 17-year-old girl said that in May of last year, security forces entered her school in Latakia and arrested all the boys in her class, after questioning them about the anti-regime slogans painted on the school walls.
She did not know if they were ever released.
Human Rights Watch called on the UN Security Council to demand that the Syrian government end all human rights violations and cooperate with a UN Human Rights Council investigation and Arab League monitors.
The Security Council is negotiating a draft resolution condemning the bloody Syria crackdown. The proposed resolution has been softened by Western and Arab nations in a bid to overcome Russian-led opposition.
http://za.news.yahoo.com/syrian-forces-torture-children-young-13-102641277.html
Please remember our brothers and sisters in all war-stricken areas in your duaas.
May Allah give them strength, sabr and victory over their oppressors. Ameen.
Salaam
By Joseph Eid | AFP – Fri, Feb 3, 2012
Children as young as 13 are a particular target in the "rampant" use of torture by Syrian government forces battling opposition protests, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday.
The United Nations says hundreds of children have been killed in the crackdown over the past 10 months, and the rights group highlighted cases of children shot in their homes or on the street, or grabbed from schools.
It documented 12 cases of children tortured in detention centres and said many more may have suffered similar treatment.
"In many cases, security forces have targeted children just as they have targeted adults," said Lois Whitman, children’s rights director at the New York-based Human Rights Watch.
The group's report said more than 100 people who had been held by security forces "described rampant use of torture in detention centres against even the youngest detainees, even beyond the 12 cases specifically documented."
"Children, some as young as 13, reported to Human Rights Watch that officers kept them in solitary confinement, severely beat and electrocuted them, burned them with cigarettes, and left them to dangle from metal handcuffs for hours at a time, centimetres above the floor," the report said.
The parents of one 13-year-old boy from Latakia said he was detained for nine days in December after being accused of burning photos of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, inciting protests and vandalizing security forces’ cars.
Security officers burned the boy with cigarettes on his neck and hands and threw boiling water on him, the parents were quoted as saying.
Another 13-year-old told Human Rights Watch that security forces tortured him for three days at a military security branch after he was detained in May.
He said he fell unconscious after being electrocuted on the stomach.
"When they interrogated me the second time, they beat me and electrocuted me again. The third time they had some pliers, and they pulled out my toenail," the boy was quoted as saying.
Most Syrian schools are now closed because of the unrest, in which thousands have been killed since last March. Many of the schools have been turned into detention centres with snipers prowling the rooftops.
Parents told Human Rights Watch that it was too dangerous to let their children out onto the streets.
One man from Homs said he stopped letting his 10-year-old son go to school because of snipers targeting Brazil Street, the main road leading to the school in one of the cities that has borne the brunt of the deadly crackdown.
"We called it ‘the street of death’," he was quoted as saying.
Teenagers told Human Rights Watch how mass arrests were carried out.
One 17-year-old girl said that in May of last year, security forces entered her school in Latakia and arrested all the boys in her class, after questioning them about the anti-regime slogans painted on the school walls.
She did not know if they were ever released.
Human Rights Watch called on the UN Security Council to demand that the Syrian government end all human rights violations and cooperate with a UN Human Rights Council investigation and Arab League monitors.
The Security Council is negotiating a draft resolution condemning the bloody Syria crackdown. The proposed resolution has been softened by Western and Arab nations in a bid to overcome Russian-led opposition.
http://za.news.yahoo.com/syrian-forces-torture-children-young-13-102641277.html
Please remember our brothers and sisters in all war-stricken areas in your duaas.
May Allah give them strength, sabr and victory over their oppressors. Ameen.
Salaam
NATO got nothing to do with this. Im quite sure if suppose NATO/US intervenes in this conflict to overthrow Bashar Assad, there would an uprising in the arab world calling for Jihad against Europe. Sad but true. Russia and China is to blame, since they are the ones continuously opposing a UN resolution against Bashar al Assad.
"Syria has been a key Russian ally since Soviet times and Moscow has opposed any UN demands that could be interpreted as advocating military intervention or regime change.Ӭ
Iran also helps Syria because it is fighting to maintain its position in the region. What a mess!
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I guess Assad will be hanging around with Mubarak soon.
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"If you're more concerned about grown men kicking a ball in the net than children dying in several lands then something is definitely wrong with you."
-- Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick
Ya Allah, soften our hearts to the plight of OUR brothers and sisters.
And detach our hearts from the vanity of this dunya!
Ameen.
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NATO/USA won't intervene for one simple reason: Syria has no oil. Everyone knows that the only reason they became involved in Libya was because of Libya's rich oil reserves and the supposed riches of Gaddafi's treasury. They wanted to get their hands on all of that.
Syria doesn't have any resources like that, so the West doesn't really care. Sad but true.
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I disagree with you. You can philosophize all day long, but the fact remains Un council is actively working on a resolution to condemn B.Assad. Whether the US government is an oil sucking dracula or not, we can discuss about that when the Syrian regime is overthrown. Syria is not only strategically important for Iran and Russia but for Israel aswell. Iran without the Syrian regime is vulnerable, the only people that would benefit from this would be the Israeli's and the Saudis. I would say the strategic location of Syria is worth more then Gaddafi, in terms of regional security and energy transit routes.
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I disagree with you. You can philosophize all day long, but the fact remains Un council is actively working on a resolution to condemn B.Assad. Whether the US government is an oil sucking dracula or not, we can discuss about that when the Syrian regime is overthrown. Syria is not only strategically important for Iran and Russia but for Israel aswell. Iran without the Syrian regime is vulnerable, the only people that would benefit from this would be the Israeli's and the Saudis. I would say the strategic location of Syria is worth more then Gaddafi, in terms of regional security and energy transit routes.
While I do disagree, you do bring up an interesting point. Don't forget that Turkey would also benefit from the removal of Assad's regime. In fact, I daresay that Turkey is already one of the big winners of the "Arab Spring" movement in general.
We'll see what happens if and when Assad is overthrown...