This is an irritated response to a post that was entitled “The Assad Regime was Ghastly but the West’s Favourite Jihadists HTS May Be Even More Bloody”

The Assad government was not “ghastly”. And it is an insult to call it a ‘regime’. That is just Zionist/US/UK propaganda.

Sunnis are the majority in Syria, yes. But a coalition of Shia, Christian, Druze and Alawite minorities constituted a larger electoral group. This is how Syria managed to protect its minorities. And as for imprisoning Sunni Takfiri terrorists, for heaven’s sake! What was Assad expected to do? We imprison terrorists as well. The same problem confronted Ataturk and the last Shah of Iran. Nobody has ever wanted an extremist and violent religious majority to win an election and then clamp down on every other sect. If you really want to call a governing body a ‘regime’ and  ‘ghastly’ then look no further than the oligarch rulers of the Gulf, who invented Takfiri extremism in the late 19th century, in order to invent an external ‘scapegoat’ and deflect the populace from rising up against their own utterly corrupt elitist police states. It’s the same as when Europe sent its restive young men off to die in the Crusades. This coalition of minorities in Syria could not survive after Israel sponsored Al Qaeda, Daesh, HTS or whatever you care to call them, and America occupied the oil rich part of Syria via the CIA arming (in the name of a concocted ‘opposition’) brutal Takfiris while imposing sanctions. Not to mention the enduring sponsorship of these extremists by the ghastly opportunist Erdogan.

The result is the probable genocide of Christians, Druze, Alawites, atheists and Shia – and probably moderates of Sunni extraction as well.

What is happening is a tragedy, just as is Gaza, and it is caused by the USA, the UK, Israel, Turkey and the Gulf tyrants.