A Syrina "revolutionary" at Cornell

From a reader:  "I am a student at Cornell University and avid reader. Last night, the Cornell Republicans brought Muna Jondy to talk at an event called 'Syrian Revolution: Dynamics of an International Crisis.' This woman was born in the US to a Syrian who fled the country in 1964. She is now deeply involved in the SNC. She told us she had been to Syria for the first time in 2007. Her talk was chock full of Orientalist tropes: Syrians want to have the same lives as Americans, if we help the rebels, Syrians (and the rest of the Middle East) will love the US, etc. She also said that Hezbollah is in control of a huge swath of Syria from the border with Lebanon to Hama and that the government's forces are only Alawites, Iranians, Hezbollah, and Russians with all other Syrians backing the rebels. Knowing just a sliver of truth from reading about events in Syria, I asked her in the Q&A about videos that show mob violence against Alawites for being 'shabbiha' and FSA kidnappings like that of the archbishops and I expressed by deep concern that the rebels are stoking sectarian tensions that could reignite Lebanon. She said that the archbishops had been captured by Russian mercenaries fighting for Assad. She also said that its the government that is stoking sectarian tensions because, she literally said this, "every general, every officer in the army is Alawi except the defense minister who is Christian and everyone knows his words mean nothing." She went on to say that the FSA doesn't deny when its troops commit atrocities because such things happen in war and that the sectarian violence will only get worse unless the US intervenes. She said that in a way that at least to me sounded more like a threat than concern about Syria. I don't know if the SNC is making some push to reach out to college campuses but I thought people should know that this happened. If reaching out to students was their objective, it was a mistake to co-sponsor with the Cornell Republicans; they are a tiny group and were only about half the audience of 15.  She also added how grateful she was to Israel intervening to destroy the arms convoy to Hezbollah.Here is a link to the event page:"