Anahid Hojjati

Thanks Dear Vildemose for your comments

I hope you feel better very soon. I have not read Nassrallah's speech and I need to do more research about Syria. But you would think that Assad would say such a thing. No dictator worth its guns and tanks, prisons and hanging cranes will declare to the world that nothing major in the world will happen if they are gone.

 FRom comment section of

 FRom comment section of Juan Cole:

Bashar’s interview was pretty lousy and boring though, and it seems Hassan Nasrallah does a much better job of articulating a defence of Syria, although his words were clearly directed at a sympathetic Arab audience. (I do agree with Hamid Dabashi that Hizbullah’s hypocricy has been exposed here, but I use the word better to mean it will convince or solidify existing convictions of many, and presents itself as coherent). One thing I wish As’ad Abu Khalil dealt with in depth in his coverage of Nasrallah’s speech was the argument that the majority of the population still support the regime, regardless of how grotesque it is. This, in Nasrallah’s opinion, makes it a totally different picture from Libya, Yemen, Bahrain etc. where such support for the regime is not in place.

In any case, does this change of tack from the Syrian regime come from a position of strength or weakness? Will the threats threaten and the charming charm?

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Louis D. Brandeis

Excellent blog and should

Excellent blog and should be featured on the front page. I have a horrible head cold so I'm going to read your blog when I feel better and comment with a clear head...lol

 //www.juancole.com/2011/10/13764.html

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Louis D. Brandeis

Thanks hamsade ghadimi for your comment

Dear hamsade, you made good points in your comment which I can oly add to it that. In the past year, we have had so many countries in turmoil that along with trying to follow news of Iran and our adopted lands, it has been dififcult to learn all the news of developments in countries such as Libya, syria and many others. A year ago, we may have had a different image of Ghaddafi and Bashar Assad. Ghaddafi was that eccentric Arab leader who gave Western countries trouble, good for him, we might have said. Bashar was a dentist and educated in the wset, how bad could he be?

Some of us have not followed the news closely so we don't know of depth of hatred that these dictators are creating in their people. which is what you wrote about in your comment. thanks.

good blog anahid.  your

good blog anahid.  your point is well-taken.  somehow people think the war-hardened rebels of libya are going to march while whistling and according to their geneva convention handbook (that each one has a copy) to do the most humane treatment of their deposed leader ghadafi.  sadly, the facts are that many have seen their family members or friends killed, are afraid that the billionaire ghadafi can bribe his way out of any jail cell, believe in capital punishment, are vengeful, and are much more aware than the rest of the world of the atrocities that have happened in their land.  something you're trying to do here: get to know the countless victims before the perpetrator is dragged in the streets.

Esfand jan

Don't worry about Pope. We have enough problems worrying about the Islamic clergy that many of us simply don't have bandwidth for worrying about Pope.

Dictator, mictator!

Anahid jaan I am still trying to figure out if Pope is Catholic! 

Everything is sacred

Thanks Vildemose for the link

to the latimes article.

  Syria protesters

//www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-syria-protests-20111029,0,2950443.story

Info here about Syria, links in the blog about Syrian uprising

Thanks Souri for your comment.

For all readers:

I included some links to Syrian atrocities including firing into mourners in Kurdish area around October 9 and Siege of Latakia in August. This afternoon, I have been doing some reading about Syria and I found some simple facts that I did not know such as the following:

Syria was under Emergency Order from 1963 until earlier this year (2011)

Syrian rulling Alawite are only about 10% of population but Sunni population is 3/4 of the whole population.

After Bashar Assad came to power, there was a period that people engaged in discussions in their homes and there was some kind of Spring that was between 2000 and 2001 but it ended .

Uprising of 2011 started at the end of January 2011 and is going on with no end at sight. Any way, I don't know about you but I think that I knew not that much about uprsing in Syria until today. I still don't know a lot, just a bit more. There have been so many uprisings in 2011, that has been difficult to know about developments in all of them.

Your points are well taken.

Thanks Anahid. You might be right. Somehow. There is a reason for that, but it would be too long to explain. I will talk about that later.

Regards;

Thanks Souri jan for your input

As I wrote my blog and then I decided to insert some links to brutalities in Syria, I just found out that there were more killings, the worst in weeks in Syria. This was not reflected in any blog or news item in IC. I just posted it in news section but I bet you that when Dictators get killed, there is no missing of news of their killing an dmistreatment in any news media in anywhere in the world. If as you say, the snews of brutalities are covered in IC, we would have had already blogs and news posting about it, no we have news items about gathering of moferfereeha in a Tehran's park or water gathering in streets of Tehran. So that is not the case that news of killings by these dictators get that much publicity on IC.  I think that so far we have covered (by news posting, blogs and comments) Ghaddafi's death on IC more than opposition in Libya was ever covered on IC.

Nobody is crying for the dictators, I cry for the humanity

Your reaction is purely emotional, which is very beautiful and understandable. But I, as a person who talks about the brutality of the people, am more worried about the destiny of the humanity, where the sheeps become wolves.

We don't do a revolution, to get to there!

Talking about the brutilized people of Libya and Iran and Syria ....etc, is important. But i think that there are so many articles posted in IC and all over the medias, to which I can not add that much. Maybe i put my effort to help those people, in some other orgnization, what do you know? Maybe I choose to help the humanitarian cause in another way, than coming here and repeating the same news which have been talked here over and over, every day.

But when it comes to the brutality of a poor mislead mass, there's not much said here. All we read is : Good for him! He was a dictator!

If we let this trend going, without giving it an important dose of attention, the brutality and dictatorship will never leave this world. There will be always another dictatorship replacing the old one.

My two cents;