Konflikten i Syrien

Syrians have never agreed on basic questions of identity and policy, and it is unlikely that they will decide these issues peacefully today.

Syria is a nation the size of Iraq whose population has outstripped its water and economic resources.

Syria produces little the world wants to buy. It hardly produces enough electricity for three hours of power a day. The school system is in a shambles.

1943 Syrian census

2013

Sunni Muslims: 1.971.053 Alawis: 325.311 Druzes: 87.184 Ismailis: 28.527 Twelver Shia: 12.742 Christians: 403.036 Jews: 29.770 Yazidis: 2.788 TOTAL: 2.860.411

Almost an entire battalion of Russian soldiers committed suicide last year, the country's chief military prosecutor has said.

they highlight the impact of demographic change on the composition of the military - an ever-increasing fraction of the country's 18 year olds is drawn from historically Muslim nationalities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has more than once put the number of Russia’s Muslims at 20 million.

The presence of Islam in Russian political life is growing to the extent that its role is now even more pronounced than it was in the 1990s.

Within most of our lifetimes the Russian Federation, assuming it stays within current borders, will be a Muslim country. That is it will have a Muslim majority and even before that the growing number of people of Muslim background in Russia will have a profound impact on Russian foreign policy.

I believe that much of Bashar’s predisposition for violence stems from his early childhood development and his family. Bashar al-Assad was the second son of Hafez and Anisa al-Assad. Hafez was the President of Syria for 3 decades and ruled severely and brutally. Throughout his life, Bashar’s father was emotionally absent from the family. In addition, Bashar’s brother Bassel treated his younger sibling with cruelty and bullying.

Another brother, Maher al-Assad, born 1968, is now commander of the Republican Guard and is known to be much more brutal than Bashar. He is described as moody, cruel and intellectually sharp (CNN, 2012). As the commander of the Republican Guard he has significant influence with his brother.

hence she holds sway over the son's thinking and emotional life. Thus the son never learns how to express his feelings in appropriate ways. Given the mother’s dominant temperament and the father’s emotional absence and sadistic nature, Bashar grew up in unhealthy environment.

He denies responsibility of the explosions that targeted Sunni Mosques in Iraq. Says the Rafidi(Iraqi) army is responsible for the attacks.

Support for the ISIS in Iraq is growing, even among the tribes.

He says the media is twisting facts. One example of this is the accusation that ISIS of staying in the liberated areas (this was an accusation repeated by Elizabeth O’Bagy and quoted in Kerry’s Senate hearing) and stabbing the FSA in the back to keep them away from the front, when the opposite is the truth:

Liwaa Ahfad al-Rassoul opened a front with ISIS in Raqqa and Deir ezZor to distract ISIS from pursuing its front in Latakia and the coast. When they were close to conquering Qirdaha, Bashar’s hometown.

Adnani said that the leader of Liwaa Ahfad al-Rassoul went to France and brought back money and a plan to face the ISIS, and Ahfad al-Rassoul members started instigating the fight by swearing at Allah in public and on the walki-talki. He says, “don’t get fooled, not all groups fighting are good, some are known to be shabiha,” an example is a group in Aleppo countryside called al-Nasir, which they caught planting ….. in their bases. He also calls Senator McCain an American pig.

Liwaa Asifat al-Shamal opened a front with ISIS in Azaz over a crusader spy, distracting them from the Hama front where ISIS is making amazing progress that is not being reported

Adnani blames the media for casting them in a bad light by spreading lies, not reporting on their successes, and attributing what successes they do report to other groups.

ISIS does not want to exclude anyone but a lot of groups want to exclude the ISIS. The ISIS welcomes anyone that extends a hand to them.
An example of this false attribution is the victorious capture of Menagh airbase, which was carried out mostly by ISIS with little help from other groups. All the same, the media reported this as an accomplishment of the FSA to the point that the Supreme Military Council leaders claimed responsibility for it.

Adnani is also annoyed that not enough attention was given to the ISIS operation on Dirii Hama.

He says ISIS does not think that most people are Kufar. They believe that the majority of the people in Iraq and Syria are Muslim. ISIS does not declare anybody an apostate without clear evidence. And when one of its members is found to be making such a generalization, that member is penalized and if he repeats his actions, he gets expelled from the group. And they’ve expelled a lot of Ansar and Muhajirin because of such statements.

Adnani insists that the media constantly plays up the few altercations that ISIS has had with other militias, while completely ignoring the frequent and on-going fights that set other groups against each other.

Adnani points out that many insisted that fighting between the ISIS and its defectors – here he is referring to Jabhat al-Nusra – would break out, but it did not. Not a single drop of blood was shed and no fighting took place, even though every reason for it existed. This upset the infidels and proved to everyone that ISIS is not out to attack those who disagree with their views. The ISIS has not fought anybody in Syria except the Nusayris, unless it was forced into a fight. ISIS believes it is stupid to fight on multiple fronts. He reminds the FSA that the goal of this campaign of distortion is to provoke internecine fighting between the two groups.