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Germany is forcing people displaced by the Syrian war to get documents and hand over money at Syrian consulates loyal to Bashar Assad. Refugee advocates say this is inhumane and supports the brutal Assad regime.
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Germany is forcing people displaced by the Syrian war to get documents and hand over money at Syrian consulates loyal to Bashar Assad. Refugee advocates say this is inhumane and supports the brutal Assad regime.
Bombardeo de EE.UU. mata a 100 combatientes sirios pro-Assad
Bombardeo de EE.UU. mata a 100 combatientes sirios pro-Assad
Siria — 08 Feb. (VoA) • La coalición que lidera Estados Unidos bombardeó el jueves a tropas respaldadas por el gobierno sirio en el norte de Siria cuando intentaron atacar a las fuerzas de la coalición estadounidense y a sus aliados, dijo un funcionario estadounidense, que informó de unos 100 muertos y docenas de heridos.
El elevado número de muertos destaca la envergadura del ataque contra la…
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Syrian Electronic Army claims it hacked army.mil website
The US Army website was hacked by the “official Syrian Electronic Army” on Monday. As soon as the breach was discovered, the Army took the site down. Army.mil site is a declassified public website, with no highly sensitive information in it. The SEA is a pro-Assad group, reportedly of Syrian youths.
“Today an element of the Army.mil service provider’s content was compromised. After this came to our attention, the Army took appropriate preventive measures to ensure there was no breach of Army data by taking down the website temporarily.” Army Brig. Gen. Malcolm Frost June 8, 2015
A few messages left in the army.mil website
The Syrian Electronic Army has a long history of hacking websites- with its most recent one at the Washington Post in May of 2015. Since the launch of their Twitter account in 2011, they have claimed responsibility for numerous hackings of news media websites. According to Forbes, in 2013, they hacked into the AP site and posted that the White House had been attacked, and Obama killed, which sent the Stock Market into a frenzy.
Though the SEA claims it got sensitive information from Army.mil, they didn’t. The website is back up today. They may have left political messages, but at lest they didn’t threaten to kill anyone like the CyberCaliphate usually does.
http://t.co/kZbrlPayv2 appears to be back online. A pro-Assad group claimed responsibility for hacking the site. http://t.co/OWlTgrqfu0
— Military Times (@MilitaryTimes) June 8, 2015
#Exclusive:Syrian Electronic Army Says, they obtained US Army data’s, & more than it http://t.co/KEoNdOTPSJ #news #tech #SEA @Official_SEA16
— Cyber Kendra™ (@cyberkendra) June 9, 2015
Syrian Electronic Army hacks and defaces U.S. Army Website http://t.co/Gnq0jkzMTP @Official_SEA16 pic.twitter.com/RiEszWdMwL — Techworm (@Techworm_in) June 9, 2015
#SEA pic.twitter.com/hl5PNa9tNn — SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) June 8, 2015
An archive link of the hacked US Army website: https://t.co/LZp59fip4I #SEA — SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) June 8, 2015
The #SEA hacks the official website of the US Army and leave several messages on it | http://t.co/Q93FQFg3cG pic.twitter.com/e8ZXp58oAY — SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) June 8, 2015
Syrian Electronyc Army’s website – hacked
Every action has its reaction and the Syrian Electronic Army found this out the hard way, when a rival group from Turkey hacked its way into the SEA’s website. TurkGuvenligi hacked the sea.sy website with the help of a breach opened at the hosting company level, which keeps the SEA’spage up and running on their […]
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Pro-Assad Supporters
People who support Bashar Al Assad and his regime are literally the stupidest people on the planet. How people like that be so out of touch with reality, so blind to the truth, I have absolutely no idea. There's no use arguing with people like that, trust me I've tried. They're lunatics.
Millions of Syrians <3 Why doesn't Al Khanazeera show this?!
hahahah they had to shut off the fountain because people couldn't fit. so lucky every friday they go out and make a rally
you dont know how badly i want to be with them <3 hayatiii souryieen
This article has a bit of a slant against Alawites. I am not trying to offend anyone, its just another perspective. It addresses a few uncomfortable issues with the Sunni-Shia dichotomy, but it shouldn't be ignored. It gives you a good feel for the 'ethnic' divisions of Syria, and how they play out politically in that country. Its a really long read so I didn't post it all, but its worth following the link to Al Jazeera and finishing.
As we left the central Syrian city of Homs, Abu Laith pulled a 9mm Llama pistol from under his shirt, loaded it and placed it in the gap between our seats. He was a sergeant in Syria's State Security and drove a small Chinese-made taxi to avoid the attention of armed men looking for members of the security forces. Heading north to his village of Rabia, in Hama, we passed shops covered in gashes from gunfire.
Prejudice in all its forms - racism, sexism, sectarianism - exist in all societies, but, in times of crisis, collective identity often comes to dominate social relations. Identity is complex and membership of ethno-religious sects is only one part of Syrian identity.
Social class, profession, nationalism, regional identities and other factors are all very important. But one is born into a sect and few but the wealthy elite transcend these classifications, typically revealed by one's name and place of birth. As in the Balkans, religious identities are often cultural identities and lead to ethnic-like divisions, even within same-language groups.
A history of persecution
In the Arab world, the Sunni exercise a hegemony which has often made minority sects feel insecure. Shia and heterodox sects - such as the Alawites - have been persecuted.
Little is known about the history of the Alawite faith - even among the Alawite community - as its beliefs and practices are available only to the initiated few. It bears little resemblance to mainstream doctrines of Islam and involves belief in transmigration of the soul, reincarnation, the divinity of Ali ibn Abi Talib - the fourth Caliph and a cousin of Prophet Muhamad - and a holy trinity comprising Ali, Muhamad and one of the prophet's companions, Salman al Farisi.
"A common theme to Alawite identity is a fear of Sunni hegemony."
A common theme to Alawite identity is a fear of Sunni hegemony, based on a history of persecution that only ended with the demise of the Ottoman empire. Sunni cultural hegemony, however, remains.
Beginning in the 1960s, the Syrian regime encouraged mainly Alawite peasants to migrate from the mountain regions to the plains, giving them ownership of lands that had belonged to a mainly Sunni elite.
But since the beginning of this year's uprising, some have sent their families back to rural areas for safety. Yahya al Ahmad, an Alawite doctor in Homs told me that his community were resented for migrating and finding work in the government and industry. "Sunnis say we took their jobs and should go back to the countryside," he said.
An Alawite friend told me he was outraged after seeing Sunni demonstrators in Latakia on television, chanting that they would send President Bashar "back to the farm". To him it meant that Sunnis wanted Alawites to go back to their villages.
"The lot of the 'Alawis was never enviable," wrote historian Hanna Batatu. "Under the Ottomans they were abused, reviled and ground down by exactions and, on occasions, their women and children led into captivity and disposed of by sale."
Empowerment and identity loss
The French mandate that replaced the Ottoman empire empowered minorities and weakened the older Sunni elite, while Alawites begged the French to grant them a separate state.
Minorities, especially Alawites, later saw the ruling Baath party and its pan-Arab ideology as a way to transcend narrow sectarian identities, while state employment and the military offered opportunities for social advancement and an escape from poverty.
In 1955, the majority of the military's non commissioned officers were Alawites, and early on, the party's Military Committee was also controlled by Alawites. They determined who went to the military academies, choosing people from social backgrounds they trusted - most often Alawites or rural Sunni, encouraging loyal allies into the more powerful praetorian units.
"In 1955, the majority of the military's non commissioned officers were Alawites ... in 1970 Hafez al-Assad ... seized power."
In 1970, Hafez al-Assad, the Alawite minister of defence and a former military officer, seized power. He empowered close friends and relatives, including many Alawites from his home region of Latakia - though he also promoted some Sunni War College colleagues.
With Alawites gravitating towards government employment, combined with Assad's nepotism, the sect became over-represented within state institutions.
The state - even "Assadism" - supplanted the Alawite religion as the focus of their identity.
While Alawites identify as Muslims they have historically been rejected by mainstream Islam. To be accepted as leader, Assad had to persuade Sunnis and Alawites alike that Alawites were, in fact, mainstream Muslims. While Alawites have a powerful communal identity and still visit mazars, or shrines, and will have an Alawite sheikh at funerals and weddings, they do not necessarily know what it all means.
Wiped from the text books
Joshua Landis, director of the University of Oklahoma's Center for Middle East Studies, revealed that Alawites do not receive education about their own religion. Syrian school books on religion contain no mention of the word "Alawite".
"Islamic education in Syrian schools is traditional, rigid, and Sunni," he wrote. "The Ministry of Education makes no attempt to inculcate notions of tolerance or respect for religious traditions other than Sunni Islam." Christianity, noted Landis, was an exception to this.
The regime denied any public space for Alawites to practice their religion. They did not recognise any Alawite council that could provide religious rulings. This could have been a tool to clarify the Alawite religion to other sects and religions and to reduce suspicions over what many Syrians perceive as a mysterious faith.
Alawites struck a bargain; they lost their independence and had to accept the myth that they were "good Muslims" so as to win Sunni acceptance. Assadism then filled the gap left by the negation of traditional Alawite identity. The loss of the traditional role of community leaders fragmented Alawites, preventing them from establishing unified positions and from engaging as a community with other Syrian sects - reinforcing sectarian fears and distrust.
Without a central authority to represent them, Alawites were unable to engage and develop their teachings. Of Syria's sects, Alawites boast the largest number of cross-denominational marriages, and are the most integrated with other sects, in both personal and business relationships.
It's hard to say what makes someone an Alawite, except for being born an Alawite. Alawites only socialise as Alawites in mazars, in the security services and within state institutions.
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