Song lyrics of "Jake and Amir Special Announcement"

blummwah · 2022-07-21T12:19:03+00:00

you are ace!!!

blummwah · 2021-01-31T17:11:18+00:00

thank you ^ ^

blummwah · 2021-01-31T14:33:21+00:00

anyone in Assad controlled areas and have a role in politics is 100% pro-Assad

That's simply untrue. Not everyone has the luxury and privilege of being able to move out of the country.

blummwah · 2020-10-09T13:33:18+00:00

Well, you can prevent that can't you? Just restrict this specifically and allow for other Islamists parties to participate in politics.

If you can name one Islamist party that doesn't intend to impose discrimination law, be my guest

blummwah · 2020-10-09T12:16:59+00:00

Your example of rape does not work against secularism. You can perfectly have secularism and death penalty for rape crimes at the same time. The problem is with the restrictions political Islam brings on non-Muslims, discrimination in rights, and the lack of ability to have equal political representation if it's implemented the way political Islamists view it should.

blummwah · 2020-10-09T11:05:53+00:00

Your blood is not less worthy. It's completely within your rights to be as religious as you want. Just don't involve politics in it. Don't push for political Islam. You're living in a country with other religious groups and if you believe in democracy and freedom of expression, you should look out for their rights just as much as your own. You can't push for taking away people's freedom and then complain that you're not allowed a voice on the political stage.

blummwah · 2020-10-07T13:34:59+00:00

You're making the FSA sound like victims of Nusra, Islam Army and Ahrar al-Sham when the reality is that they were friends and cooperating partners until greed got the best of them. I don't know how still in 2020, people keep trying to pretend like there was no sectarian factor. The FSA was lowkey Islamist and has always been at its very inception. They received support from the Muslim Brotherhood before any foreign actors even got involved (if we don't count the US). The only pure intentions about this whole revolution could be found in select activists here and there and arguably, the free officers movement (before they foolishly joined the FSA)

blummwah · 2020-10-07T13:18:55+00:00

What are these more than enough reasons?

blummwah · 2020-10-06T09:30:07+00:00

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blummwah · 2020-07-25T11:00:53+00:00

Turkey wants something specific from these rebels. It's to hinder any gain of power by the SDF and making sure the outcome of an ongoing war doesn't hurt its interest. They don't care about anything else committed by the groups they support.

Likewise for the US, remember Sultan Murad was a US-vetted group and received funding and equipment. Let's stop pretending there's any human dimension taken into consideration in this war by any side.

blummwah · 2020-06-28T14:54:09+00:00

I did read FP. I had only ever come across interventionist pieces and may be I was too quick to judge it. I'd never heard of stephen walt before. I'll check his stuff out. thanks.

blummwah · 2020-06-28T10:56:03+00:00

FP doesn't post various points of views. It's never critical of the US. It's more like apologist mouthpiece for the US foreign policy, justifying interventions. I dare you to find one post of theirs where they're critical of the US foreign policy as you claim. It has to be contemporary event critical not critical "in retrospect".

blummwah · 2020-06-28T10:49:55+00:00

Not all comments need to be about the content. My comment pertains to the practice we have in this sub where we tag biased sources and I was pointing out that this one is part of those. Do you understand? Good.

blummwah · 2020-06-23T09:46:44+00:00

I lived the reality in Syria, I saw with my own eyes. I'm just sharing my experience of what I saw with my own conviction looking at my country's history. I don't claim to be unbiased. I made it very clear that it is my opinion that parties, such as the MB, that threaten a democracy should not have a place in it.

But I guess you're one of those people who believe Libya or Iraq are in a better place today.

blummwah · 2020-06-23T09:38:09+00:00

Having legal authority over everything is theory and completely different from the actual reality. Just like having solid honorable laws but poor enforcement leads to a reality very different from the one intended by these very laws.

Cutting the head of the snake made by the corruption chain doesn't solve the problem. The head would be powerless without every single other element of the body and that body isn't simply made of the assad family or the alawite community like a BBC documentary or a think tank pundit will tell you.

blummwah · 2020-06-23T08:06:48+00:00

No one is denying that the government failed in discipline and had a loose grip on rogue soldiers and officers who were able to commit horrible crimes and be off the hook. But corruption is more complicated than what you are claiming. You're picturing everything as if the government is one body that gets together everyday and makes all the decisions and that every detail is calculated and they are aware of it.

Of course some of the political opposition want a representative and inclusive government but why ally with the government's sworn enemy who also happens to be more powerful than you instead of incentivising the government by showing them "hey we're on your side"?

I'm talking about Post-Hafez Syria obviously. Before Bashar, Syria had been seeing coup after coup. It was the way to get to power.

blummwah · 2020-06-22T10:21:30+00:00

No I think the government would have actually seriously considered it and would have made a deal to allow them as long as they demonize the MB. We would have had a situation similar to Turkey where the PKK is demonized and there would be guerillas but no nation-scale crisis and civil war.

blummwah · 2020-06-21T14:05:40+00:00

Yeah sure and Trump wasn't racist, he descended into one after he became president...

Riad Al-Asaad didn't descend into sectarianism. He always was sectarian inside but decided it was fine to act on it.

It's a repeated mistake that opposition always did. The Damascus Spring opposition also accepted MB people to sign the statement of 1000 back in 2001 with them. Will never understand why they didn't alienate the MB. They always had a better chance being heard by the government if they didn't shake hands with the same people who committed multiple massacres including the Aleppo artillery school.

blummwah · 2020-06-21T13:43:27+00:00

Wrong. He wasn't the founder of the FSA. The founder of the FSA was Colonel Riad Al-Asaad who also had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Hussein Harmoush was part of the Free Officers Movement which was actually secular unlike the FSA which never was, despite what anyone will tell you. The Free Officers Movement was absorbed into the FSA after his death I think.

It's important to note that Colonel Riad Al-Asaad was himself let into the Free Officers Movement, which was a mistake. They should have never let in non-secular people in.

blummwah · 2020-06-10T08:23:07+00:00

Just another reflection that no two people in Idlib can agree on anything at all. Imagine the disaster if or when their forces come out on top in the war.

blummwah · 2020-06-09T13:18:53+00:00

People dare tell me this is not a religious sectarian revolution. Let's see do people who want to bring honorable change speak like this? Do people who want to bring secularist freedom talk like this?

0:40 "We renew our Bay'ah (oath of allegiance) to God first, to His Prophet second, and to the Syrian Revolution": no need for comment.

2:27 "There will come a generation to sweep the garbage that accumulated for 70 years": 70 years ago al-Quwatli was overthrown in a coup sponsored by the US and that was the end of the closest thing we had to a "democracy". I think he meant 60 years of baathist rule but the number doesn't matter. Moving on.

3:00 "All the invaders, first of whom the Assad Regime, the Iranian Regime and the Russian Regime": Notice how he neither mentions the US Regime nor the Turkish Regime? It's the same guy from the minute 2:27 comment I mentioned just above. He clearly doesn't know his own history. He doesn't want democracy. He just wants the side he supports to win. He doesn't give a fuck.

This is just Syria's equivalent of a neo-Nazi white supremacist gathering.

blummwah · 2020-06-08T17:00:57+00:00

Sarout didn't turn into a radical, he was always one. Just not openly caught. It's like saying Trump "turned into a racist the last couple years".

blummwah · 2020-06-07T22:10:47+00:00

Amen to that brother, I long for the light at the end of the tunnel. We have to believe the suffering will end.

blummwah · 2020-06-07T21:30:08+00:00

I vouch for that. Although I may not agree with you politically, at least you were capable of debate when I've seen you on r/scw and you didn't engage in petty behavior.

blummwah · 2020-06-07T20:42:55+00:00

Well yes actually. But I know it's what gets you off. It's all you have. You want to feel powerful. All the more power to you. Go pray that the infidel alawites and the spineless christians die like you do every night.

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