Arab Awakening veers sharply from being a project of reform and democracy towards a Gulf states-funded initiative to restore regional Sunni primacy, the strategy is becoming clear. Qatari and Saudi dollars will steer "stirrings" towards radical Salafism so their absolute monarchies can assert leadership of a new, wider Muslim polity. The cultural shift towards intolerance and hegemony is already causing uncertainty and desperation across the region.
Loooove it
Told you so .. told you so
America, West, wants to genuflect Arabs
Hans, you being fooled by West .. Qatar and Saudi Arabia are both Wahhabi Salafist states
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Many Syrians see the struggle now not so much as one of reform - though all Syrians want that - but now as a more primordial, elemental fight to preserve the notion of Syria itself, a deep-rooted self-identity amidst fears that touch on the most sensitive, inflamed nerves within the Islamic world.
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Syrian self-identity, as for many others in the region, was never a sectarian one, but was rooted in a belonging to one of the great nations of the region with a "model of society" which had "more religious freedom and tolerance … than in any other Arab country".
Syrians did not view themselves as primarily identified by sect. Wahhabi-style sectarian intolerance is foreign to the Levant, even to Levant Sunnism. We are already witnessing, in Egypt, for example, push-back against movements seen to be motivated primarily by considerations of sect - even from those who see themselves as Islamist. They seek not another type of strait-jacket. The question is being asked: has the Brotherhood switched from "patience" to "domination"? There is a sense now of something fundamentally lost: with this authoritarian re-culturization - where now is any real reforming, revolutionary zeal ?
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everybody relaaaax
not gonno work
Iranians will not let it happen
look, guys
this fight is for "wahhabi-Sallafi" Islam .. or .. Iranian-Rumi Islam
Fight is to reform Islam along the line of Wahhabi-Sallafi .. or .. along the line of Rumi (Molana), Khayam, Haafez, Saadi and Ferdosi
fight is between Ahriman (Wahhabi-Sallafi) Saudi and Qatari .. and .. Ahura Mazda
fight between night .. and .. day
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