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2013-09-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Army Launches Offensive On Historic Christian Town
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Posted by trailing wife 2013-09-09 09:08|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
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#1 Is Sunni Islam more intolerant than Shia Islam?
Posted by Thert Untervehr5084 2013-09-09 11:41||   2013-09-09 11:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Is Sunni Islam more intolerant than Shia Islam?

It depends on the day, Thert Untervehr5084.
Posted by trailing wife 2013-09-09 11:47||   2013-09-09 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Alawites =/= Shia, Thert Untervehr5084.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-09-09 13:46||   2013-09-09 13:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Hafez Assad paid got some big name mullah to call Alawites Shiites, back in the 1970's, but their core beliefs, (1) there is no God but Ali, (2) a pantheon of saints that includes Aristotle, Plato and the Virgin Mary, (3) the non-prohibition of alcohol consumption and (4) a belief in reincarnation, suggest that both Shiites and Sunnis on the street are right to consider them to be non-Muslims at best and apostates or pagans at worst. If Alawites are Muslims, then Bahais, Sikhs and Muslims are really Christians, because they all incorporate elements of Christianity, and all of the preceding are really Jews, because they all incorporate elements of Judaism.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2013-09-09 14:15||   2013-09-09 14:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Assad, the Shiites, Alawites and Christians are in an unholy alliance against Saudi Arabia.

Al Qaeda might be seen as the bad guys, but in this war (like most) they are on our side, and we can count on them to do our work against the Alawite/Christian alliance with brutal efficiency, I've seen these guys in Jordan and they are the best of the best, trained by our best of the best. These guys need our air cover however, without that they don't stand a chance against Assad's forces. Make sure your congressman knows how important this is - we need to ensure a Saudi victory in Syria if we're to destroy Iran.
Posted by FreedomFighter 2013-09-09 16:53||   2013-09-09 16:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Al Qaeda might be seen as the bad guys

There's something coming up in two days that rather confirms that supposition.
Posted by Pappy 2013-09-09 17:28||   2013-09-09 17:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Where is your /sarc tag, FreedomFighter?

Oh, you mean you're serious? LOL
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-09 17:46||   2013-09-09 17:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Freedom Fighter

I have read/heard that the US/Saudi use sunni extremists for geo political reasons but when it comes to killing Christians in the middle east I and millions in the UK/US say no!
Posted by Paul D 2013-09-09 19:11||   2013-09-09 19:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Part of what President Agent Provocateur's job is making as many of the old communist lies true as possible. US Using Al Qaeda.... CHECK!
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-09-09 19:49||   2013-09-09 19:49|| Front Page Top

#10 This poor son-of-a-bitch in this thread thinks he's the Big Swinging Dick, getting the US to support AQ in spite of 9/11 etc., when all he's doing is serving to discredit the US and an anti-Assad revolution on the way to his untimely demise.

Hey, Freedom Fighter, got a short history lesson for ya: Jawn Fucking Kerry sold out millions of people a WHOLE LOT FUCKING BETTER THAN YOU to servitude to Putin's predecessors, or to death. What makes you think you're going to end up any different?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-09-09 19:55||   2013-09-09 19:55|| Front Page Top

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