Things in Syria continue to deteriorate – the best source is Al Jazeera’s live-blog and of course following Andy Carvin on Twitter.
Leaning towards fake, but still investigating. RT @blakehounshell: What’s the consensus on this Syria buried alive video? Fake?
— Andy Carvin (@acarvin) April 26, 2012
#Syria civil war update: the main opposition group has formed a military council, and Kuwait joins the call to arm them.
Larison takes the contrary view, arguing that arming Syrian rebels won’t help make Syrians free, it will just ensure more Syrians get killed.
Shelling on the town of Baba Amr in #Syria – here’s video of the moment Alsaman Mosque minaret was hit.
The United Nations Security Council remains deadlocked over which countries are allowed to kill Arab civilians. Russia and China have vetoed a plan which would have stopped Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shelling the city of Homs, setting a dangerous precedent of allowing Arabic leaders to kill their own people and threatening Western domination of the Arab extermination market. Experts believe the veto signals a challenge to the long-held British and American monopoly of Arab slaughter and that the Chinese now plan to move aggressively into this lucrative field. A US State Department spokesman said: “Ten years ago it was the French trying to stop our invasion of Iraq, which has since proved to be an unprecedented, decade-long bloodbath of success. “Now we’re supposed to watch Arabs murdered in the streets by guns, mortars, and rockets at the hands of the Syrian Army when they could be humanely executed by remote control. And we’re not even sure they’re killing the right Arabs.” A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We’ve been killing Arabs since the 11th Century and all of a sudden we’re supposed to ask for permission? Are we supposed to ask for permission to go to the toilet as well?” The US spokesman added: “We have to fight constantly for Israel’s right to kill any Arabs that look at them funny, and now this. “Sometimes I wonder if the UN wants us to kill any Arabs at all.”
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4866&Itemid=89
wait, the plan would have “stopped” Assad from shelling his own people? I don’t think rhetoric, even golden words passed in stern resolutions at the UN, have that power.
Is the “Daily Mash” a parody, like the “Daily Onion?” I hope so…
Some facebook resources for the Damascene massacres in #Syria:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/تنسيقية-الثورة-السورية-في-مسرابا-ريف-دمشق/162632447157928
http://www.facebook.com/ShaamNews?ref=pb
http://www.facebook.com/SyrianRevolutionGeneralCommission?ref=pb
http://www.facebook.com/monasiqoon?ref=pb
Also, Andy Carvin (@acarvin is a must-follow.
Yesterday, Syrian forces massacred 140 people in #Hama – the #RamadanMassacre. Despite the crackdown, thousands are still rallying in the streets.
Andy Carvin (@acarvin) is probably the best aggregator of tweets and information on #Syria and #RamadanMassacre
also, the AJE live blog on #Syria is an essential resource:
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/syria
(kudos to @mohamed)
Dennis Kucinich seems to be in danger of doing in Syria what Cynthia McKinney has done with regard to Libya…completely blowing a long record of taking bold foreign policy stands which won the respect of many Muslims by appearing to cozy up to a dictator who is slaughtering his own people. At least when it comes to McKinney, it was part of a consistent pattern of opposing U.S. military adventures and was part of a more complicated relationship between Qaddafi and the Blackamerican left. It is still a little unclear what Kucinich is trying to do.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/58027.html
In terms of mainstream American politics these people are all relatively fringe players regardless of which side they took on such issues, but I do think the continuing dynamics of the relationship between the progressive/radical left and the Muslim community as the Arab spring continues and events progress in the Muslim world. When it has come to the antiwar positions backed by most American Muslims with regard to Afghanistan and Iraq and some of the human rights concerns here domestically, the far left has been about the only consistent ally the community has had.
This will never end.
To whomever it may concern:
Your site, and other like it, are, I am sorry to say, of little benefit to the Muslim as well as the non Muslim. You provide a platform for all and sundry to comment, argue, oppose and belittle whatever they see fit. Has anyone ever benefitted from sites like these? I know people are not won over insults, but does anyone ever see the right way to Islam from the pointless discourse that goes on here?
Instead of clarifying the truth and taking the Islamic approach, most posts here revolve around Esposito, Armstrong, Weiner or Spencer. Furthermore, the sheer ignorance of Islam and sunnah is troubling. Do you kust put up a site together and start scratching, or is there a more knowledge based approach to your post? And when I say knowledge, I mean Islamic knowledge. Not from books written by delusional atheists / secularists who themselves are confused about the nature of Tawheed (monotheism).
Sadly, all rhetoric and no substance.
Wassalam alaikum.
thank you for your criticism. I think it’s unfair, but you’re entitled to your own opinion. Certainly anyone who reads the site regularly will not draw the same conclusions as you do.
At any rate, no one is forcing you to read or visit the site.
Yes, what we really need right now are lectures on extremism and violence from people like you.
And some people expect us to take these criminals seriously and show them some ‘respect’:
Years of drought in the Fertile Crescent have left Syria with worries about instability, a displaced population of former farmers, importing wheat after years of independence and searching for help from Turkey with regards to its water supply.
thabet, 
aziz 6:40 am on April 26, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Russia is siding with Assad and France is siding with the opposition. Syria is becoming a Gordian Knot. All the more reason not to get too involved militarily yet.