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[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » News Round Up (15 May 2011): Open your eyes and your ears if there is not even one single example that this is going to be a working formula why do insest that Syrians should swallow it.the holly Quran ,the bible etc are all ways to organize your relationship with good they are ment to make us all better people.what is going to be your feeling if you walk up tomorrow and say you live in France and you learned that they have decided to apply the bible to the society .you will as Muslim have to show respect and fast in public 50 days before Easter in addition to your Ramadan days.you will also have to drink alcohol and eat pork.this is much modified copmarasion because we are not talking about cutting hands stonning or all the other stuff if you flip things around.but just to give you an idia in case you were enjoying a secular cultur not infected by a disease which you are trying to introduce to Syria.

[Bullfax.com - Market News & Analysis] Rights group blasts Syria for arbitrary detentions | www.bullfax.com: The embattled Syrian regime is pushing ahead with its campaign of repression against political and human rights activists, holding many of them incommunicado and going after their families and friends, Human Rights Watch said."Syria?s leaders talk about a war against terrorists, but what we see on the ground is a war against ordinary Syrians -- lawyers, human rights activists, and university students -- who are calling for democratic changes in their country," Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director of the New York-based organisation, said in a statement late Sunday.

[KurdNet News ekurd.net] Syrian Kurds 'waiting to take to the streets,' academic says: Largely concentrated along the borders with Turkey and Iraq in the northeast of the country, the Kurds have long been described as a repressed minority in Syria. Since the break-up of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, they have fought for an independent Kurdistan with fellow Kurds in Iran, Iraq and Turkey.

[Support Kurds in Syria] Citizens' videos capture Syrian turmoil : Support Kurds in Syria: The Syrian government has claimed there is an “armed resurrection” by Salafi groups in the country, but raw video footage reveals a very different story.

[The Jadaliyya Ezine] Syrian Petition for Political Change: A Dramatic Missed Opportunity: While Syrian Kurdish leaders may over the last few years have been at pains to emphasize that their intention is not to replicate maximalist Kurdish agendas in northern Iraq, the current petition in contrast has no eye for the subtleties such assurances ought to entail. All the petition does in this respect is to place Iraq -especially in Syria a byword for violence, sectarianism and chaos”” at the doorstep of the ”˜silent majority’ of support that the regime still claims to enjoy.

[Slinking Toward Retirement] Revolt and repression in Syria: Could the Assad regime fall apart ...: Whereas the United States and European governments have castigated the Syrian government for shooting protesters, virtually all Arab governments in the vicinity have been silent, fearing a sectarian spillover if the strife were to worsen and spread. Turkey, which shares a border of 900km (560 miles) with Syria and dreads an influx of refugees, especially Kurds, has been the odd neighbour out.

[Patrick Mac Manus's Blog] Kurds in Syria 'waiting to take to the streets' « Patrick Mac ...: After a week of anti-regime protests in Syria, it has become clear that the opposition there is divided along lines of ethnicity, religion, tribes and families. Presidential advisor Shaaban may have stated the government’s intention to avoid referring to Syrians based on their ‘religious, ethnic or sectarian identity”

[Al Jazeera Blogs | Al Jazeera blogs Feed] Syria Live Blog - May 6 | Al Jazeera Blogs: Journalists were taken on a guided government tour as tanks left Deraa yesterday and pictures were taken of residents cheering the army, including women showering soldiers with rose petals and rice. The government says troops were deployed in the city on April 25 after residents called for their help against armed groups. 

[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » Landis and Seale on Prosepects for a ...: Of course that’s too black&white, the Situation in Syria right now is all gray, Syria is governed by the security/army, the Syrian ministers hold no actual powers, the parliament is a joke, and the judicial system is non existent. The security personnel are above the law, so any meaningful reform will require reining in those corrupt and very powerful heads of security branches, I doubt Bashar has the power to strip those of their powers and influence (regardless of whether he wants to or not), you’re talking about national dialogue and finding common ground, what common grounds can the Syrian intellectuals find in their jail cells ?

[News: News blog | guardian.co.uk] Syria, Libya and Middle East unrest - Thursday 28 April 2011 ...: In summary our government has been doing things that have had nothing for the people here except cost, loss of lives and a reputation of being a menace. Instead of all these wars we need to concentrate on creating more suitable conditions in which our social movement can grow in order to defend our democratic rights and to abolish the dictatorship of the political and economic system.

[Syria Comment] “National Initiative for Change” Program of Syrian Opposition ...: Above all comes the granting of all political rights to Kurds, the removal of all forms of systemic discrimination practices against them and the prioritizing of eastern provinces in development and infrastructure projects. ...

[KBG Test Blog] Revolt and repression in Syria: Could the Assad regime fall apart ...: Whereas the United States and European governments have castigated the Syrian government for shooting protesters, virtually all Arab governments in the vicinity have been silent, fearing a sectarian spillover if the strife were to worsen and spread. Turkey, which shares a border of 900km (560 miles) with Syria and dreads an influx of refugees, especially Kurds, has been the odd neighbour out.

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