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2023-05-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Turkey establishes a new settlement in Afrin region, NW Syria, with the support of Muslim Brotherhood-linked associations in Palestine

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Posted by Fred 2023-05-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [20 views ] Top
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#1 I call for a UN sponsored moratorium on Turkish settlements- yeah right.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-22 03:31|| 2023-05-22 03:31|| Front Page Top

#2 'The Syrian dictator was greeted like the returning prodigal son': After the sickening sight of Bashar al-Assad being brought back into the global fold MARK ALMOND asks, how long before Vladimir Putin is glad-handed again?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-22 06:13|| 2023-05-22 06:13|| Front Page Top

#3 When the Baath Party seized power in 1963, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) days were numbered. The Baath then included in their ranks Hafez Al-Assad. He was a minority Alawite, a sect the Ikhwan considered un-Islamic.
As Minister of Defense Assad launched a coup in 1970; after that, the Baath Party remained in power but under Assad's thumb. He put his brother Rifaat al-Asad, in his cabinet.
When Assad backed the Maronite Christians in the Lebanese civil war that began in July 1976, the Brotherhood declared a jihad against the Alawite leader. By 1979 the Syrian Ikhwan had at least 30,000 members. Assad then tried to get along with Brothers but the effort failed. In Jan 1980 the Ikhwan was charged with assassination attempt on Assad. Assad forced the Syrian parliamnent to declare membership in the Ikhwan a capital offense.
Rifaat in February 1982 used tanks to carry-out the destruction of Hama, an Ikhwan stronghold. Some 1,300 Ikhwan were imprisoned and in all as many as 30,000 were killed in the assault and in subsequent attacks. Brothers who could escape did, and the Syrian Ikhwan dispersed throughout the Middle East and into Europe.
They have yet to return in numbers. That Turkey is playing with fire is obvious, but it now serves as the home for the Intl. Ikhwan al-Muslimeen and the attempt to recreate the Ikhwan in Syria now seems underway.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-05-22 09:04|| 2023-05-22 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 So, the Assad clan was an enemy of the Muzzist Bruderbund, but still not my friend.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-22 09:06|| 2023-05-22 09:06|| Front Page Top

#5 “Arab Nation” Socialists — the Ba’ath Party was modelled on the Nazis before they lost their war. Saddam Hussein’s branch of the Ba’athists ditto. In many ways so was the Ikhwan — except for the atheism, of course. Both attempted to answer the failures of the traditional caliphates/sultates, particularly in Egypt, Iraq, Turkey

Posted by trailing wife 2023-05-22 18:31|| 2023-05-22 18:31|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ ... He was a minority Alawite, a sect the Ikhwan considered un-Islamic. That was enough for the 'ultra-Sunni' Muslim Brotherhood.

Posted by magpie 2023-05-22 18:31|| 2023-05-22 18:31|| Front Page Top

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