'Murdering Kurds on the street': Syrian Druze warns of Islamist extremism

[Mosby]

The rebel factions that took over Aleppo do not accept other religions than Islam, a resident of the Druze city of Suwayda in southwestern Syria told Israeli state broadcaster KAN on Monday.

"The factions that took over Aleppo destroyed Christmas trees that were set up for the holiday. They are murdering Kurds in the streets," he noted, adding, "Their slogans are 'Jihad' and 'Allahu Akbar.'"

While he noted that the "current regime is dictatorial," the citizen of Suwayda added, "It allows freedom of religion and does not interfere in that domain, whereas the Islamists do not accept other religions in Syria. This is fundamentally different."

"The Syrians did not sacrifice what they sacrificed just to move from bad to worse. That is the source of concern," he told KAN. "We want the situation in Syria to improve, not deteriorate further."

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-831578

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

1. Shocking to anyone except the most naive

Post Assad Syria is likely going to be so much worse then it was under Assad. I don't give a shit about Assad, let him wind up like Mussolini for all I care, but let's not kid ourselves into believing whatever follows is going to be any sort of improvement for the majority of Syrians.

[nycbos]

4. Indeed

This is a war between two sets of evil. There are no good guys.

[Polybius]

2. May every one of those so-called "rebels" die in combat

Assad is actually quite tolerant of other religions (so long as you don't oppose him).

[nycbos]

3. Dobut you will see much outrage on college campuses about this.

I wonder what could be the reason?