Wednesday, July 24, 2013

All is well in Syria, what you see with your own eyes notwithstanding

So secular people are holding hands and shooting at the same time:  "Other Christians and Alawites have joined the mainly Sunni-dominated political opposition; and a secular civil society is still actively engaged in Local Coordination Committees."  Also, she says: "Hizbollah is a Shi’a organization and the Alawites have been recognised by Ayatollah Khomeini as a branch of the Shi’as. Nasrallah’s intervention, however, was not prompted by religious affinity but by pressure from his Iranian allies."  Every part of the last sentence is untrue.