The democratic credentials of the lousy Syrian National Council was in full display in Cairo yesterday when goons of the Syrian National Council beat up members of the Syrian opposition who were in Cairo to meet with the lousy Secretary-general of the Arab League. I watched various videos of the event, and I was particularly incensed that they were chanting at every member of the Syrian opposition delegation the word "shabbihah" (goons which is used in Syria to refer to the armed goons of the Syrian mukhabarat). That was quite disgusting. This word has become at the mouths of the goons of the Syrian National Council what the word "counter-revolutionary" was in Stalinist Russia or what the word "communist" was in McCarthyite era in the USA, or what the word "enemy of the revolution" was in Khuayni's Iran, etc. I have warned about the Ikhwan-controlled (and US/Saudi Arabia/Qatar-sponsored) Syrian National Council before. They have quickly discredit itself before it reached power--very much like the NATO transitional council in Libya. They basically don't tolerate any criticisms: I have received complaints from many Syrians who oppose the regime about the intolerant tactics of this bunch even on the internet. Anybody who criticizes them or who voices disagreements with them is automatically labeled "shabbihah" or agent of Bashshar. Such intimidating tactics should be rejected and should be used to call for the dissolution of this most lousy opposition group which is destined to replicate Ba`thist repression if it gets to power. What really really upset me was to watch those goons of Syrian National Council attack one of the most brave dissident in the Arab world, the brave Haytham Al-Manna`. This is one of the most famous crusader for human rights in the Arab world, and his brother was killed by security forces in Syria during this uprising. Those goons of the Syrian National Council are in no position to hector or lecture or intimidate someone like Al-Manna`. One of the people attacked was Hasan `Abdul-`Adhim who recently met with the US ambassador. That should have spared him from attacks because the Ikhwan are mere tool of US/Israel/Saudi Arabia/Qatar. But he was attacked. And how come the US did not utter a word when those goons attacked the Syrian dissident were attacked with rocks, tomatoes, and eggs when those same attacks by supporters of the regime in Damascus against the US ambassador were considered a terrorist attack?? We should oppose the Syrian National Council every day, before meals and after, in the same breadth of our opposition to the lousy Syrian regime. Syrian people deserve much better: much better than the goons of the regime or the goons of the Syrian National Council. One is induced to vomit when one hears representatives of the Syrian National Council speak about democracy or secularism. Spare me. Go fly a kite in Qatar.
PS Ghalyun spoke against the thuggery of the goons of the Syrian National Council in Cairo. But poor Ghalyun: he runs the Council as much as I run the US government.
