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French journalist Nicolas Henin – who spent 10 months in close contact with Daesh as a hostage – says the West bombing them is what they want:
“Why are we making so many mistakes? Why are people so misunderstanding their vision?”
He also says Daesh hated seeing Syrian refugees being welcomed by the West and that we should be providing no fly zones in some areas of Syria instead of bombing it.
The full interview:
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Reblogged this on campertess and commented:
Actually “Why are we making so many mistakes? Why are people so misunderstanding their vision?” The general public are not making mistakes or misunderstand anything , it’s the muppets that are supposedly running the country that are making the mistakes….
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You’re making the mistake of thinking that those who seek to retain or attain power are basing their decision on what’s best for ordinary people, whether in the UK or Syria.
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oh good another war ill make a fortune
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Fascinating video posted here by Tom, making some very interesting points. I think Henin is rather too optimistic about the Syrian democrats. I don’t think they were ever a majority popular movement, however much most Syrians wanted an end to the tyranny of the Assad family. The fear was that if we backed them, open elections would automatically lead to another Islamist government, as happened in Egypt when the Muslim Brotherhood took power under Morsi.
As for the coalition of 80 armies coming to fight an international army of Muslims, that seems very much based on Islamic apocalyptic belief. If fits with what a number of scholars of Islam wrote in the 1990s about the spread of millennialist – end of the world movements – in the Middle East.
I can also believe Henin’s statement about the dismay felt by ISIS when they see thousands, perhaps millions of Muslims fleeing their Islamic utopia for the West. Remember: under Islamic law and political theory, the world is divided into the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which means literally ‘the War Zone’. Shariah law states that Muslims may only immigrate to the Dar al-Harb either to trade, or to spread Islam. Hence, this is actually a real propaganda blow against ISIS. There’s a kind of confirmation of that mindset from one of the Islamophobic websites. One of them a few years ago reported that the Muslim governor of one of the Pakistani states was so shocked by the damage to Pakistan’s image as a benevolent Islamic regime that he ordered a family emigrating to India to sign a document stating they would return. ISIS in Iraq also tried the same tactic when the Western press reported how the Christian community in Mosul was leaving due to their persecution. Immediately they went into spin mode, and starting appealing for them to return, claiming that they were loved and respected etc. Middle eastern societies are honour-shame societies, and so respect, and loss of respect and self-image means much more to them than it does over here.
Also good to see Henin thinking about the numbers of Syrian ‘Jihadi John’ Emwazi killed as well as the six westerners. Most of the victims of ISIS aggression have been Muslims. Their lives are as important as ours.
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