Fooling Western reporters

Syrian rebels give Western reporters what they want to hear:  "Some say they want Islamic law, while others insist that civil law alone should rule."  Well, Ms. Barnard should know that "civil state" is now a phrase used by Muslim Brotherhood.  So the two are not as contradictory as they seem.  She then says this:  "the protesters he organizes in Saqba, a Damascus suburb, are “religious, secular, and people who drink wine and smoke opium”".  OK, let us say that there are those who drink wine and smoke opium, would not there be one--ONE only--battalion named after, say, Abu Nuwas or Timothy Leary?  Just one? Why are the names all Islamic and Islamist?