These various factors — ranging from economic interests to political maneuvering — help explain the strange paradox of countries scrambling to whitewash al-Sharaa and curry favor with a regime that was considered a terrorist entity just months ago. It is a fitting spectacle for the state of global politics in this Trumpian era.
Al Sharaa words mean absolutely nothing. This guy is literally one of the reasons why ISIS exists and he was involved in actual terrorist attacks, and he’s still an islamist now. Taking his words at face value is like taking the Taliban talking about human rights before the US left Afghanistan seriously, it’s an idiotic take.
I don’t know what propaganda you’ve been snorting but trying to frame the Alawites which have always been marginalized group in Syria subject to constant discrimination and violence as the aggressors is just victim blaming. Trying to pretend that there’s some connection to Israel, doesn’t change the facts, it just means you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Until you answer “what more do you want” I’m assuming you want al-Julani to personally gather up the perpetratora and lead them all in singing Kumbayah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2025_Western_Syria_clashes
Alawites weren’t marginalized under Assad. That’s why there’s a strong pro-assad alawite faction doing things like ambushing government troops. In fact, Assad’s family was alawite and he put alawites in leadership positions in the government and military, in fact.
How much reading have you done outside of the OP article and maybe one or two others in the mainstream media? Did you even realize the regime was collapsing before it was over? I ask because I really think you’re worse informed than I am
I literally lived in Syria for. Some pretentious schmuck on Lemmy pretending they’re experts on a place they’ve never been to is rich.
The Alawites were marginalized under Assad. The government is not the one that does marginalization, it’s the general population. The majority of Syria is Sunni muslim and Arab, and anyone who isn’t that is seen as a kafur and not a real Syrian. This is why all the minorities (Druze, Kurds, Alawites, Assyrians, etc) took up arms and tried to get some level of autonomy. They knew that the moment Assad was gone, he’s going to replace by a government less secular yet just as ruthless and they’re going to pay the price… And guess what? That’s exactly what happened.
They got the literal Syrian branch of Al Qaeda as the new government and it’s leader as their new president. Al Sharaa is a well known terrorist, islamist, and he’s infamous for being one of the primary reasons why ISIS exists. The moment HTS took over, there dozens of reports of islamist fighters under the HTS, aka the Al Nusra front, who went on sprees massacring Alawites just for being Alawites. There are also reports of them them kidnapping and enslaving women, but that’s something you just want to conveniently ignore.
What did Al Sharaa do? Nothing! He did nothing. The islamists who committed these crimes are not being exiled or prosecuted and the victims are not being compensated, rescued, or given justice. There has no change in policy outside of Al Sharaa giving lip service to not piss of the west. In reality, he’s enabling these islamists which is why the violence against the Alawites and other minorities is still going on right now. Al Sharaa is literally using Sharia law to train new soldiers and police officers so he could have them enforce “morality”.
Idk why you’re dickriding for a terrorist like him so hard, but this is not the hill to die on. The marginalized minorities in the country are not the problem, that’s a fascistic way of thinking. The cold hard reality is that Al Sharaa is and always has been a jihadist, and this violence is just a part of his ideology.
Right, the alawites were oppressed when they had minority rule just like how the Afrikaners were oppressed in apartheid South Africa. We’ll have to wait and see. Good talking to you.
You’re talking out of your ass. The Alawites have literally never ruled Syria for as long as Syria has been a thing. Stop spreading misinformation.