I’ve definitely seen leftists claim that the Assad governments were “genocidal” against Sunnis because of the high amount if Sunni casualties during the Civil War and Hafez’ crackdowns. They also point to the majority Alawite leadership within the military.
This ignores the fact that:
A) The majority of Syrians are Sunni, and therefore a Civil War would obviously represent that in its casualties.
B) The Sunni ideology that was being suppressed was foreign to Syria, being Wahabbi influenced imported by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab states.
C) The point about the ethnic over represetation in the military high command could also be used against Kurds in the SDF (something they won’t bat an eye at). The reason for that Alawite dominance had more to do with the Assad family being overly represented, themselves being Alawites.
Obviously the nepotism was a problem, but the alternative was a literal headchopping fundamentalist. Western leftists love to ignore Al-Jazeera’s Arabic coverage of the civil war. Qatar explicitly platformed Wahabbi fundamentalists that were calling for the eradication of Shias and Alawites from Syria.
These people were not just speaking about the nepotism and corruption of the Assad family. They held Alawites, and their Shia allies, collectively responsible as a group, and called for the exact slaughter that we’re seeing against minorities in Syria today.
It’s like western leftists brains turn off for thus topic I swear. When you tell them, “if you want to know how Israel really thinks, check the Hebrew sources” they’ll understand immediately. However when you use that same logic for Syria, and tell them to look into what the prominent Arabic media is saying, they’ll just blank face you and say that the Assads were genocidal.
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I’ve definitely seen leftists claim that the Assad governments were “genocidal” against Sunnis because of the high amount if Sunni casualties during the Civil War and Hafez’ crackdowns. They also point to the majority Alawite leadership within the military.
This ignores the fact that:
A) The majority of Syrians are Sunni, and therefore a Civil War would obviously represent that in its casualties.
B) The Sunni ideology that was being suppressed was foreign to Syria, being Wahabbi influenced imported by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab states.
C) The point about the ethnic over represetation in the military high command could also be used against Kurds in the SDF (something they won’t bat an eye at). The reason for that Alawite dominance had more to do with the Assad family being overly represented, themselves being Alawites.
Obviously the nepotism was a problem, but the alternative was a literal headchopping fundamentalist. Western leftists love to ignore Al-Jazeera’s Arabic coverage of the civil war. Qatar explicitly platformed Wahabbi fundamentalists that were calling for the eradication of Shias and Alawites from Syria.
These people were not just speaking about the nepotism and corruption of the Assad family. They held Alawites, and their Shia allies, collectively responsible as a group, and called for the exact slaughter that we’re seeing against minorities in Syria today.
It’s like western leftists brains turn off for thus topic I swear. When you tell them, “if you want to know how Israel really thinks, check the Hebrew sources” they’ll understand immediately. However when you use that same logic for Syria, and tell them to look into what the prominent Arabic media is saying, they’ll just blank face you and say that the Assads were genocidal.
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