What does anyone suppose might happen if those same Mexicans (second largest Catholic country in the world after Brazil) illegally flooded into Syria? They wouldn’t be just sent back by al-Sharaa. There’s a valid reason why Christians and other minorities are fearful in Syria. From The Independent: Altounian, an Armenian Christian, expresses a concern shared […]
Syrian Army Enters Lebanon to Take On Hezbollah
A little history on intra-Arab and intra-Muslim conflicts in the recent past: The war in Yemen between the Royalists, backed by Saudi Arabia, and the Republicans, backed. by Egypt, took place between 1962 and 1970, with most of the fighting over by the mid-1960s. In this war, Egypt sent tens of thousands of troops to […]
New Syrian Textbooks are Designed to Produce More Jihadis
The new textbooks in Syria of course eliminate all praise, direct and indirect, of the Assad family, father and son, but when it comes to Israel and Jews, those textbooks remain unchanged: “New Syrian government issues textbooks filled with antisemitism and praise for terrorists,” by Jane Prinsley, Jewish Chronicle, February 7, 2025: Multiple maps in a […]
Syrian Schoolbooks, Newly Islamized, Give One Pause
The de facto ruler of Syria, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani (Ahmed al-Sharaa), has made some reassuring remarks about not wanting to start or join a conflict involving Israel. “Abu Muhammad al-Jolani’s Attitude Toward Israel,” by Yoni Ben Menachem, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 2, 2025: …To date, al-Jolani has refrained from military action against IDF […]
Syria’s new top dog denounces Iran, courts Turkey
NPR doesn’t say anything about it and almost certainly doesn’t know, but al-Sharaa is a Sunni jihadi, and so he doesn’t want ties with Shia Iran. He’d much rather deal with Sunni Turkey. “Syria’s new leader denounces Iran, calling its proxies a regional threat,” by Greg Myre and Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, February 4, 2025: DAMASCUS, […]
Saudi Arabia warmly welcomes Syria’s jihadist leader
The phrase “a leopard can’t change its spots” applies perfectly to the al-Qaeda linked jihadist Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, who changed his name to Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa as part of his efforts to convince the West that he has changed. What al-Sharaa is really after is the imposition of Sharia in Syria and Western aid that […]
The ‘Strong Horse’ — Ahmed al-Sharaa — Takes Over Syria
It didn’t take long for the democratic façade to fade in Syria. What we all knew would happen sooner or later happened on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. That day, the leader of the main rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Abu Mohammed al-Julani (real name Ahmed Al-Sharaa), had himself named president of Syria for an indefinite […]
Man Who Took Over Syria at Gunpoint Not Sure When He’ll Hold Elections
Sometimes democracy needs a little help. A point of evidence that we live in a political environment ruled by utterly corrupt narratives is that recently an Islamic terrorist group took over Syria at gunpoint to wide celebrations (mostly outside Syria) which was followed by the international community declaring that this was a very, very good […]
Syrian jihad leader replaced his jihadi attire with Western-style blazer, talked ‘revolution’ rather than ‘jihad’
This guy learned how to play the Western establishment media, and he learned how to do so very well. “How Syria’s rebel leader went from radical jihadist to a blazer-wearing ‘revolutionary,’” by Mostafa Salem, CNN, December 6, 2024: Ahmed Al Sharaa, an Islamist militant in his late 20s, moved back to Syria from Iraq in […]