Let me put it this way: at least Western media are no more peddling the line that two feminist progressive Syrians are leading the Syrian uprising

"It’s debatable how much support the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has within Syria – politically and militarily – given that since the 1980s it has been a capital offense to be a member of the party. There has been much talk that the MB has little influence on the ground, and that it will provide military and logistical support only in exchange for pledges of loyalty, part of its attempt to beef up its numbers. It’s a claim vigorously denied by Molham Aldrobi, an executive member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a founding member of the Syrian National Council (SNC), the exiled political group that tried torepresent the opposition early on. “This is absolutely not true. We do not discriminate based on loyalty to the MB,” he told TIME from his home in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. “The MB does exist in the ground, we work under the FSA umbrella,” he said, although he would not disclose the number of units, nor where within Syria the MB’s military groups were strongest. He did say, however, that there was at least one member of the MB in the Istanbul operations room.
Still, the Brotherhood is only one of the many Islamist groups operating in Syria. Some, like the Salafi group Ahrar al-Sham are not strictly part of the FSA, although in Idlib the group is part of the Military Council and therefore gets a smattering of support from the Istanbul control center as well. It’s a reflection of the fact that in most cases in Idlib at least, rebel offensives are joint operations betweengroups of Free Syrian Army fighters, Islamists, Salafists and even the extremist Jabhat al-Nusra group that some claim has ties to al-Qaeda. Still, the bulk of Ahrar al-Sham’s substantial funding reportedly comes from Kuwait." (thanks Rana)