How Syria’s Uprising Blurred Moderate, Extremist Lines
by Dr. Halla Diyab, Al Arabiya, United Arab Emirates – The Syrian regime’s atrocities against civilians, and the help it is getting from Shiite militant group Hezbollah and Iran, has angered Sunnis worldwide. This has gradually changed the revolution from a mass Syrian uprising to a Sunni rebellion. Muslim Arab scholars have denounced regime atrocities, while some stay neutral and pray for an end to the conflict. Syrian Salafi preacher Adnan Mohammed al-Aroor issued a fatwa in 2012 calling for a Sunni jihad excluding non-Syrians.
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