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| New Muslim Brotherhood Leader of Syrian Opposition Stands Up for Al Qaeda |
| 2012-12-13 |
| In other news the UK is pressuring the US to act as the air force of the Free Syrian Army Al Qaeda. Sheikh Mouaz Alkhatib was supposed to be the face of the new “moderate” Syrian opposition, no longer associated with Islamists. The first hint that this wasn’t going to work out was that the entire conference was held in Doha under Qatari supervision. Even the Obama Administration has slowly admitted that Qatar was funneling weapons to Al Qaeda. So why give Qatar control over a conference meant to break the Syrian opposition from Al Qaeda? That question answers itself. When Sheikh Mouaz Alkhatib was chosen to head the newly legitimate and US recognized Syrian opposition, he was repeatedly hailed as a moderate. Being hailed as a moderate Islamist by the media usually means that you’re a violent bigot who wants to kill everyone who isn’t a Salafi and to no surprise, Sheikh Mouaz Alkhatib was that kind of moderate Islamist. Khatib’s website features numerous instances of anti-Semitic rhetoric. In one of his own articles, he writes that one of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s positive legacies was “terrifying the Jews.” He has also published others’ anti-Semitic observations on his site: In one article, written by Abdul Salam Basiouni, Jews are described as “gold worshipers.” Finally, in an obituary of a Gaza sheikh copied from IslamSyria, Jews are dubbed “the enemies of God.” While Khatib used his post-election speech to call for equal rights for “all parts of the harmonious Syrian people,” his previous rhetoric toward his country’s minorities has been nothing short of virulent. One of his articles describes Shiite using the slur rawafid, or “rejectionists”; he even goes further, criticizing Shiites’ ability to “establish lies and follow them.” Calling the Shiite rafawid is a fancy way of saying that they can be killed and their mosques can be burned. But according to every mainstream media outlet, Sheikh Mouaz Alkhatib is moderate. The BBC and the Guardian and the New York Times and the Washington Post say so. The troika of Obama, Cameron and Hollande have elevated Khatib as their Moderate-in-Chief of the Syrian opposition while listing the Al-Nusra Front, an outlet of Al Qaeda, which with Qatari and Turkish help appears to be winning the war, as a terrorist group. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 Because, it takes one to know one. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-12-13 12:25 |