Thursday, November 03, 2011

Burhan Ghalyun on Syrian regime TV: insulting the Prophet

The dumb Syrian regime TV, especially Dunya, has been launching attacks on Burhan Ghalyun.  Yesterday, the discovered based on a Ba`thist-linked internet site--kid you not--that Mr. Ghalyun in 1966--when he was 21--once insulted the Prophet.  I kid you not.  So the Syrian regime is now descended to religious demagoguery.  They even linked by Danish cartoons against Muhammad and...Burhan Ghalyun.  But it was ironic that they mentioned that from 1966.  In fact, as is well-known, in April of 1967 the Syrian Ba`thist regime (of Salah Jadid) caused a firestorm when a magazine for the Syrian Army, Jaysh Ash-Sha`b, carried an article that contained a reference to God as an "embalmed toy in the museum of history".  The reaction against the rigidly (admirably) secular regime of Salah Jadid was so strong, that the government then arrested the writer of the article and blamed its publishing--you guessed it--on a Zionist conspiracy.