Comments on: Outside/ Inside

By: unimportant

unimportant — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:11:14 +0000

– i hope you are well, it’s been a long time!

my only fear is that there are a lot of falacies going around now, many are spreading fears of lebanese-civil war style targetting minorities. You and I know too well that the Syrian society hasn’t wittnessed and won’t wittness such a thing – but many others don’t know.

By: أمنية

أمنية — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:45:34 +0000

i can never trust the brotherhood. i have no idea how they let them in the meeting of the opposition abroad, these same ppl whom shook hands with khadam.

By: Robin Yassin-Kassab

Robin Yassin-Kassab — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:05:08 +0000

I remember you, unimportant! And your lovely house. You are quite right in your comment. I was simplifying of course. Also – the opposition to the regime in the 70s and 80s included leftists too.

By: unimportant

unimportant — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:06:10 +0000

Thank you. i enjoyed the reading as well.
plz allow me to bring to your attention that the brotherhood in the 80s didn’t only kill alawis, they killed secular sunni intellectuals as well. furthermore, if here was an armed faction amongst the brothers, that did not apply to all, nor was it an integral elemnt in the movement’s ideological make-up (the brotherhood was politically active in in Syria since the 40s). There are, in all cases, too many divergent perpective on who did what in the 80s.

It was quite unfortunate that Nasser/Baath/Assad systematically exterminated/expelled/imprisoned the intellectual elite in the movement since the 50s. Equally unfortunate was the systematic alienation of the baath ideology from practice. Indeed, a healthy liberal enviroment could allow both parties to co-exist and gain popular support.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:26:35 +0000

Great piece…Very well written… Thank you