The “moderates” are behaving a great deal like the “extremists.” No one who doesn’t buy the establishment line should be surprised, as the distinction between the two in Syria was always arbitrary. “Syrian Christians Face New Threat From Rebel Alliance,” by Alison Meuse and Deborah Amos, NPR, July 3, 2015: Syrian Christians face new threats […]
Syria: Jihadists murder man accused of insulting Muhammad
“The man had been accused of ‘insulting the Prophet Mohammad and his family,’ said the Britain-based monitoring group. That makes it likely that Mohammad al-Mir was a Shi’ite, as Muhammad’s child bride Aisha was an antagonist of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the Shi’ite standard bearer. Shi’ites thus sometimes denigrate Aisha — and Sunnis Ali. “Nusra […]