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Syria’s government appears to have fallen (www.politico.com)

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The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a lightning rebel offensive.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone describes the rebels as "Islamist", but since Assad's regime is/was islamic as well it's a very strange choice of labels.

You wouldn't call them that unless it was either a useful way to differentiate them, which it doesn't seem to be, or to manipulate the way people feel about either the rebels or Islam

[–] dragontamer -1 points 1 month ago

People need to start talking about this in terms of (at minimum) Shia vs Sunni.

The problem with that, is we have wars like Afghanistan (Taliban and ISIS-K are BOTH Sunni but still fight each other. No different than like, Lutherans getting pissed at Calvinists (both Protestant who hate Catholics but real world is more nuanced than the big divisions).