Don sent me this: "You have to read this to
believe it:
Another massacre, of which
nobody but the perpetrators and victims know the truth, but SPIEGEL Online
knows in one of its today’s main headlines: “Syrian’s Regime is
fomenting war on confessions”. Since Assad in his recent grotesque
interview on German TV painstakingly avoided to mention any word relating to any
confessional group, Spiegel Online finds the proof on You Tube:
“…in
February the Syrian army seems to launch a first
offensive against Tremseh. Videos show battered buildings. Even a minaret was bombed. This
is a deliberate religious
provocation. An activist shouts: "God is bigger than you, Bashar! It is not the
first time that Assad's
soldiers hurt Sunni sensibilities. Last year the beginning of a military offensive coincided with the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims. What is new is that the army - or
the remains of still not
deserted soldiers - openly side now with
the Alawites. Even during
the massacre in Houla in May, it was said that
the army and militias of the Alawite neighborhood made common cause.
"
But wait, now the YouTube experts on
confessional tensions of Spiegel Online really find the proofs for their
headline:
“Shocking is
a video of
28 March 2012. It is said to show the return of the Syrian
army straight from Tremseh [… ]Syrians are standing at the roadside
cheering the army. The
text to the YouTube video
says that these are Syrians from a neighboring village of Tremseh. Once a young woman appears with light hair and a
ponytail in the picture, another time a woman
with black hair and a ponytail . In the
rural areas of the country it is unusual
that Sunni women wear their hair uncovered. It suggests that
this neighboring village is not Sunni dominated, but that the
inhabitants are part of one of Syria's minority faiths -
probably the Alawites, two which Assad and most of the security apparatus belong to. Thus, the Syrian soldiers in the
video seem to act consciously confessional.”
What? How on earth can someone of the largest
news magazine in Europe write something like this?"
