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Bashar al-Assad, Chemical warfare, Chemical weapon, Christianity and Islam, Civilisation, Counter-Jihad, Cultural Marxism, Damascus, Defend the modern world, Demographics of Europe, English Defence League, Middle East
Over recent weeks we’ve been treated to a horrid selection of photographs from conflicts in the Middle East. Hundreds of people have been killed, most recently over a thousand by the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Upon seeing such things, the natural human reaction is to say something like – “I don’t care what the situation is. There is no excuse for this.”
And I have some sympathy with that. Certainly the Assad chemical attack (and the sight of children killed by it) should depress us all. But despite this, we must keep in mind two essential facts:
1. In both Egypt and Syria, there are wars ongoing not between tyranny and freedom – but between secular government and Islamist terrorism.
And
2. Those who fight for the latter would butcher us all if they could.
These two facts must be preserved in our thoughts no matter how ugly the situation there becomes. When you see the bodies of innocent children killed by government retaliation – by all means cry for them, but never allow a moments sympathy for those who led them into harms way in the first place, and who prolong this conflict deliberately by acts of terror, and who would gladly bring the same conflict to where you live, exposing your loved ones to the same dangers.
The war between a strange and badly applied version of modernity (personified by the Assad government) and a force of 6th century barbarians hell-bent on Islamising the world should really be a no-brainer for anyone who values civilisation.
If Assad is now resorting to using Chemical weapons to repel the advance of the ‘rebels’, then perhaps the more rational countries of the West (as well as the famed ‘Moderate states’ of the Middle East) should provide him with more accurate non-Chemical weapons.
Assad is many things – a murderer, dictator, thief and anti-Semite – but his crumbling regime stands in the way of something unimaginably worse, not just for us, but for the people of Syria too.
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
It’s almost impossible to voice that opinion where I live unfortunately. Thanks for articulating exactly my position so much better than I could have.
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Nice of you to say. It’s hard to defend Assad to people who have been indoctrinated by the media. Assad is a monster, but he has an mp3-player and listens to pop music. His wife often has her head uncovered and wears skirts. I can live with Assad in charge. One has to also think of Israel. If the Islamists win, how long will it take for Syrian rockets to fall on Israel?
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What I cannot fathom is WHY Assad would be so stupid as to use chemical weapons. He knew it was the US declared “redline”. I could see him accurately reading Obama as a coward and blowhard, but whatever tactical advantage could have been offered is dwarfed by the downside of giving the West a legitimate pretext.
I consider myself a rational, skeptical guy. I’m almost ashamed to admit I’m contemplating the possibility of a false flag operation, an attack on Sunni civilians perpetrated by the Sunni combatants, designed to draw the West into the fray against Assad.
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This story was originally in Yahoo News back in January.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/us-backed-plan-launch-chemical-weapon-attack-syria-045648224.html
See also USA Today for the reality about the rebels –
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/11/syria-al-qaeda-connection/2075323/
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And there is a lot of evidence that the Rebels have already used Chemical weapons. The BBC reported the use of such weapons very loudly about a month ago, then, when the report suggested the Rebels and not Assad had used them, the story was buried.
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Typical BBC duplicity and complicity. Apparently the weapons WERE used. Now what? Syria is Afghanistan on steroids — It sits in the heart of the most volitile region on earth with hair trigger sensitivities waiting for ANY excuse to escalate the violence. Anyone can see this except the venal politicians and corrupt media mafia who think they can play at power. God help us all if this powder keg explodes. The finger pointing has begun but no one is owning up to this — which is strangely unlike the players in this game.
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I do not think Assad’s government used this Sarin. There is evidence that the canisters were hand-made, that the gas was procured by Al Qaeda. Don’t put it past them. They have much more to gain by provoking the West. They want every opportunity to kill Westerners.
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