As should be obvious from two of the speakers at last Saturday’s rally, there was zero sympathy for the violence that took place in the aftermath of the viral Youtube video “Innocence of Muslims”, nor was there for the killing of the American Ambassador in Benghazi that turned out to be unconnected.
Doomsday warnings about a Salafist takeover of the struggle against Bashar al-Assad must have escaped the attention of the Syrian-Americans for Democracy, the organizers of the rally who conveyed the spirit of the Arab Spring and not some threat about a Taliban-like tyranny imposed on a freedom-loving people. I suspect that there will be a Jihadist influence in Syria just as there was in Libya. And as was the case in Libya, the people know how to act in their own interest, as the uprising against extremist militias in Benghazi should have demonstrated, and as well the recent election in which Islamist parties fared poorly. full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/september-22nd-syria-rally-in-new-york/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
