Thursday, November 17, 2011

`Ar`ur in Idlib

There was a rally by the opposition in Idlib the other day.  The speakers chanted in praise of the fanatic sectarian Shaykh Al-`Ar`ur.  His mention does not appear in any of the Western media coverage of Syria because they really want the readers to believe that Burhan Ghalyun is the real power behind the leadership of the opposition--how I wish that to be true.  But Western media did the same in Libya: they promoted the men in suit-and-tie and they feigned surprise when the fanatical religious nuts appeared in the leadership of the government after the collapse of the Qadhdhafi dictatorship.  You can't disturb their propaganda ploy: any references to the religious fanatics is dismissed by orders of the Ikhwan who are putting men (and a woman) in suit-and-tie in the forefront for deception purposes.  The rally in Idlib sent one salutation after another to the religious kook, `Ar`ur.  I only saw that on New TV, which is probably the only media (East and West) that covers different angles in Syria.  (This despite recent decline in the news seriousness of New TV and the trends of appeasement in Saudi Arabia.  The channel which had financial ties to Qadhdhafi (and Qatar), covered Libya as if it was critical of the the dictator all along.)