Sunday, July 31, 2011

The "liberated" Islamic emirates of Syria?

"...Maleh, who appeared at the Istanbul meeting to acclaim as a statesman... "The opposition abroad is raising funds to sustain the rebels and help in broadening the civil disobedience that has already made some cities like Hama and Homs liberated areas," said Maleh, as he lunching at the five-star hotel near the Bosphorus where the exiles were meeting...
Expatriate Syrians, who have run anti-Assad websites and supplied smuggled satellite phones to protest organizers in Syria, say they are also finding clandestine ways to finance disobedience campaigns in cities such as Hama and Homs, which they hope will accelerate the fall of the Assad family...
In another sign of political maturity, debates over the shape of post-Assad Syria have induced the Muslim Brotherhood openly to embrace democratic principles and accept a civil society with a pledge that Islamic law would not be imposed."The pluralistic democratic state is our goal..." said Ali Sadreddin Bayanouni, the former head of Syria's Muslim Brotherhood...Many exiles acknowledge they lack a united leadership, but say the Muslim Brotherhood and secular leftists can agree on two main goals -- Assad's overthrow and a democratic future..."

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