I strongly question where you get your statistics on Syrian religious demographic because there hasn't been a census asking such a question since 1960.
30 countries observed and approved of the 2014 elections in which Assad won by 88%. At that time, the rebels not only voluntarily withheld their vote, but they also shelled the Syrian people after threatened the people not to vote, killing at least 50.
The US forbids independent monitoring of our elections. Syria embraced it. If you've got a problem with the results, you've got a bigger problem than Assad: Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, India, Iran, Iraq... The list goes on.
Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the UAE and the United States DID NOT ALLOW the elections to be held in the Syrian embassy.
In Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, China, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Mauritania, Malaysia, Nigeria, Lebanon, Oman, Indonesia, Sudan, Japan, Jordan, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, India, Iran, Iraq, South Africa, Spain, Serbia, Sweden, Ukraine, Venezuela and Yemen voting in the Syrian embassy was possible.
So tell me again who is preventing democracy from occurring in Syria? It seems to me like the West has their hands in it.
So, the question still remains- why would a Sunni majority country support a Shia government? Well maybe because they aren't sectarian bastards, and maybe because the Syrian government offers free education and free healthcare to everyone, not just the Shiites. At least that's what Cynthia McKinney says. And I'm liable to trust the only American politician brazen enough to try and impeach George Bush before she was chased out of her office and replaced with some dumbass who think Guam is an island capable of capsizing.
So yeh. You are absolutely fooled. Assad has the legitimate of 30 independent nations having monitored his elections. The fact that mercenaries funded by such horrid regimes as Turkey, Israel, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, and enabled by intelligence operatives from imperialist Western nations doesn't change the fact that Assad is president in the majority of Syria and he isn't mass murdering his people. He's defending them.
(Full disclosure, Syria is still a state so they're still wrong, and I support the democratic Confederalists of those egalitarian Kurds who've doing everything Syria could do only better and with less.)
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Dysnomia ago
If you have any integrity, watch this.
I strongly question where you get your statistics on Syrian religious demographic because there hasn't been a census asking such a question since 1960.
30 countries observed and approved of the 2014 elections in which Assad won by 88%. At that time, the rebels not only voluntarily withheld their vote, but they also shelled the Syrian people after threatened the people not to vote, killing at least 50.
The US forbids independent monitoring of our elections. Syria embraced it. If you've got a problem with the results, you've got a bigger problem than Assad: Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, India, Iran, Iraq... The list goes on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_presidential_election,_2014
So tell me again who is preventing democracy from occurring in Syria? It seems to me like the West has their hands in it.
So, the question still remains- why would a Sunni majority country support a Shia government? Well maybe because they aren't sectarian bastards, and maybe because the Syrian government offers free education and free healthcare to everyone, not just the Shiites. At least that's what Cynthia McKinney says. And I'm liable to trust the only American politician brazen enough to try and impeach George Bush before she was chased out of her office and replaced with some dumbass who think Guam is an island capable of capsizing.
So yeh. You are absolutely fooled. Assad has the legitimate of 30 independent nations having monitored his elections. The fact that mercenaries funded by such horrid regimes as Turkey, Israel, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, and enabled by intelligence operatives from imperialist Western nations doesn't change the fact that Assad is president in the majority of Syria and he isn't mass murdering his people. He's defending them.
(Full disclosure, Syria is still a state so they're still wrong, and I support the democratic Confederalists of those egalitarian Kurds who've doing everything Syria could do only better and with less.)