Commentaire sous un billet de Jadaliyya :
►http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/4445/the-real-me-and-the-hypothetical-syrian-revolution
I have to preface by saying that I’m vehemently against the regime (and I feel compelled to say that lest I’m accused of being one of Asad’s shabbiha), but what Amal is doing here is taking an extreme view not very different from the one she’s criticizing. In this article, as well as in some of the previous ones, she refuses to even acknowledge that there’s an armed element to the opposition that’s not only used to protect civilians. She refuses to acknowledge that there are salafi and sectarian elements in the opposition who among other things openly called for killing or even extermination of Alawis, and she neither criticizes those elements directly, nor does she fault opposition groups such as the SNC, or the FSA for not distancing themselves from such voices. She refuses to acknowledge that outside forces are playing a dirty role in what’s happening in Syria (are we really to believe that US/NATO/Qatar/Saudi care about democracy or human rights in Syria), and never talks about the huge influence they have over the SNC and FSA; whether we call this a conspiracy or not, doesn’t change the fact that it’s there. She refuses to acknowledge that there are many Syrians (rightly or wrongly) who are against the fall of the regime, not because they necessarily support it, but because they don’t want the state to fall, and she in essence labels anyone who doesn’t hold her views as a shabbih.