udrch wrote:jedino što se za Siriju zna jeste da je alawitski teror loš i to već 50 godina..
ostalo tek treba dokazati..
Valjda je to Asadovski teror kolega. Nisu svi Alawiti demonski nakot, pa ni vecina.
Inace malo oko Alawitske vlasti. Oni su na vlast postavljeni od strane Francuske kolonijalne uprave koja je iskoristila najbolji recept koji postoji jos od antickih vremena (usavrsen od Britanaca doduse) a to je da uzmes najslabije i najprezrenije pleme/narod/etnicku grupu/religiju i postavis ih na celo uprave (ispod kolonijalista samo). Posto su oni uvek bili na dnu uradice sve sto mogu da ostanu na vrhu.
Normalno to nervira vecinu koja je do jucer bila glavna i koja je naucila da manjina mora ljubit njihove noge i pocinje jos veca tenzija.
Kada dodamo da ljudi dole stvarno veruju u boga, dobijamo eksplozivnu situaciju gde nema izlaza i gde ce na kraju svako morati da se drzi svoga tora bez razlike dali se on slagao sa politikom istog ili ne.
Ili da citiram Gerija:
They call this “primitive war,” and you can hear the snobbery dripping in that name. They want everything to be Gettysburg, Waterloo or Stalingrad, but those were freak shows, oddities from a brief period of history. Most wars down the ages go just like Syria is going now, with the focus on ethnic cleansing and killing civilians, avoiding battle if possible.
The only unusual thing about Syria is that the fighting gets played out on every scale, from neighborhood to planetary. At ground level, this is a neighborhood war all the way. But the reactions come in from all over the planet. In fact, you can tell whose neighbors got killed by which part of the world reacts to the killing. Yesterday a mortar shell slammed into a school near Damascus and killed some kids.
The Alawites in Bashar Assad’s regime howled and so did their allies, the Russians. Which means, even though the press carefully avoided saying what religion the dead students were, you can bet they were Alawite. If they’d been Sunni, the people howling would be the Sunni and their backers: the Saudis, the Turks, and the Arab League. Every neighborhood firefight in Syria echoes around the world.
And the longer the war goes on, the more fractal it gets, because Syria has never been a one-on-one struggle of Alawites vs. Sunni. There are a lot of little ethno-religious enclaves in Syria, and sooner or later, whether they want to or not, every one of them is going to have to get involved.
Sometimes group identity is pretty straightforward, providing you with both identities: religious and ethnic. But not in Syria. It’s 90% Arab, ethnically, but those Arabs are divided into the Sunni majority in the north and east, the Alawites and Druze in the coastal hills and Damascus, and the Christians, mostly scattered along the coast. So the two biggest gangs in the country at the moment, Alawite and Sunni, both consider themselves Arabs; for them, it’s officially a “religious” war, not an ethnic fight.
But people get the wrong idea when you say it’s a religious war, as if two kids from the same house join up in different churches and start fighting. It doesn’t happen like that. You’re born into a religion—if that’s not what does it, the world sure is full of weird coincidences, because Sunni families have a lot of Sunni kids, Baptist families have a lot of Baptist kids
So your religious identity, especially in a place like Syria where the different religions each have their ghettos, is not just about church, it’s the neighborhood, the family, the songs you learn when you grow up, the massacres you’re trained to remember and resent, the grudges it’s a sin to forget, the whole landscape and history. What matters is where you split from the others, not the fact that you look alike or speak the same language as the heathen over the hill in the next village.
Identity like this gets real, real important when it’s a matter of extermination, which it is in Syria. If you live in a condo in Seattle, you can take your parents’ church or leave it at home with your old bike. But if you live in a Syrian neighborhood where the people a few miles away really do consider you kaffirs and really do want to wipe you out, that’s not an option. You either stick to the group or desert in the face of the enemy.
So right now, all kinds of Alawite Syrians who used to hate Assad, for clan reasons or just for being such a lunkhead fascist, are coming back into the fold like the lost sheep churchy people love to sing about, because it’s a matter of loyalty—and besides, it’s just not safe declaring yourself a Unitarian in an environment like that. If the Sunni win, they’re going to shoot Alawites, and it won’t do any good to tell them, “I’m one of the broadminded ones.” In fact, that sort of attitude gets you shot faster than anything in most war zones. It’s like prison: if you try to make a point by sitting at the wrong table—the white table if you’re black, the black table if you’re white, the nortenos if you’re sureno or vice versa--they’ll make a point of you in a way you won’t like.
And that’s not just because they’re bad people. This kind of war is about what military bureaucrats call “unit cohesion.” In a sectarian war, the whole group is a military unit. And if it don’t cohere, it may not be around very long.
But at the same time, there are all these levels of identity that don’t come into play, like the fact that both Alawite and Sunni officially consider themselves Arabs. In that case, religion beats ethnic identity as something to fight over. It’s not always that way, though — sometimes ethnic identity trumps religious identity. And that’s where the next big fault line is going to open up in Syria: The Kurds.
Kurds are about 10% of the population in Syria, and like every other group in the country they’ve got their own patch of turf — in two blobs along the northern border. The Syrian Kurds are regular Sunni Muslims, totally in agreement on all that stuff with the Sunni Arabs who are fighting Assad’s Alawite heretics.
But Kurds are not Arabs. Very, very not-Arabs. Kurds and Arabs have a long history, and though there are some bright spots (Saladin was a Kurd), it hasn’t been a very sweet little story of “harmony in diversity” or any of that crap. We’re talking about the Middle East here, and they see diversity the way we see fungal infections: you just can’t get rid of the damn thing, but you sure keep trying.
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