In the last few days more reports of new brutality continues to emerge which somehow the nations of America, the United Kingdom and France have signed up to. Of course, nobody expects anything from Saudi Arabia which naturally supports killing apostates, allowing old men to marry child minors and not allowing one single non-Muslim place of worship. However, you have no excuses when so-called democratic nations join forces with terrorist barbarity, Al-Qaeda, a plethora of different Islamist terrorist organizations and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) which is a proxy of Turkey. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf nations have sponsored the FSA and an array of Islamist terrorist organizations. Of course, the nations of America, France and the United Kingdom fully understand that these nations want nothing to do with democracy. Likewise, they know that even reading the Bible openly in Saudi Arabia leads to prison and that women suffer terrible injustice in this country. Indeed, these Western nations are fully aware that Syria is secular and that this nation is not only light years ahead of the Gulf nations, but that women have freedoms which could only be dreamt of in countries like Saudi Arabia. Despite this, major Western powers are on the side of sectarianism, cleansing minorities, terrorism and inciting sedition and hatred. This hatred is being witnessed daily and in the latest shocking videos to come out of Syria (often Youtube and other sources will close down these videos) it is clear that Islamist hatred and images of Pol Pot “Year Zero” can be seen within the FSA Islamist agenda. This applies to a small child being supported and taught how to behead a captured pro-government Syrian. Like usual, the Islamists chant to their Allah while killing fellow Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Therefore, “the light of Levant Islam” is now being threatened by Gulf Salafi Islam and massive indoctrination, whereby non-Muslims and minority Muslims are deemed to be infidels and worthy of being killed in bestial ways. One can only imagine the fear of the captured individuals who knew that they would be beheaded after enduring mass taunting and other forms of violence. FSA Islamists had to help the child to behead but this shows the mentality of the barbarity of various FSA Islamist organizations. Several swipes were needed while Islamists were chanting gleefully to Allah. Yet which is more barbaric, the actions of deprived individuals killing in the name of religion, or the actions of democratic nations and media agencies which know the reality on the ground but still continue to ply the anti-Syrian government agenda? Different elements within the band of terrorist and mercenary organizations have various objectives. The most militant of Islamists hate the Alawite Muslims, Christians, Shia Muslims and Druze communities. Other groups are following the agenda of Turkey because they are killing Kurds in order to appease the Erdogan government. However, the one binding angle is that terrorism is part and parcel of their form of combat alongside torture and killing in bestial ways. Indeed, their backers have tried to reign in the FSA and Islamist terrorist organizations from filming their barbarity – not based on noble reasons – but because they don’t want the truth to be witnessed. Recent images show radical Sunni Islamic jihadists destroying Shia mosques in Zarzour while celebrating. Of course, they will have burnt many Korans while doing this but it doesn’t meet the Islamist agenda when they burn their own holy books. Therefore, no mass demonstrations when Sunni Islamic jihadists destroy mosques and holy books. Yet if these Islamic jihadists hate fellow Muslims so much then one can only pity non-Muslims. In Homs and other places many Christian churches have been destroyed. Saudi Arabia which bans all non-Muslim places of worship will not be too disappointed but why are so-called secular and democratic nations joining these sectarian and evil forces? The vast majority of soldiers in the Syrian armed forces are Sunni Muslim and they are fighting alongside fellow soldiers from all the faith groups which make up Syria. These soldiers are fighting to preserve the independence of Syria and to protect the secular nature of society. This is also the same Syria which took in millions of Iraqi and Palestinian refugees irrespective of religion. However, today this nation faces sectarianism, sedition and daily terrorist attacks alongside a brutal economic blockade which is creating more poverty. Pierre Khalaf (http://www.voltairenet.org/article176869.html) comments that “…the actual fighting power on the ground is that of Al-Qaeda, its various factions and the military wing of the Muslim Brotherhood organization. As for the groups that are outside this gathering, they are scattered and merely constitute local organizations and gatherings which include criminals, thieves and bandits. According to the information, the operations room in Turkey, led by officers from the American intelligence services with the participation of Qatari, Saudi, Lebanese and Libyan security groups, is the one giving orders and providing the fighting groups inside Syrian with information and plans, but also organizing the arms, ammunition and explosives smuggling operations and giving orders to the sabotage cells throughout Syria to carry out explosions and assassinations.” Meanwhile, another terrorist car-bombing rips through Damascus near a school and kills many, including children. If this car bombing had happened in Ankara, London, Paris, New York and anywhere else throughout the world then international condemnation would have happened. However, in Syria the Western elites have “sold their soul” to Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the agenda of Qatar. Therefore, while Western states are focused on geopolitics and reducing the influence of the Russian Federation and Iran. The regional Middle Eastern powers in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar are thinking long-term and the need to destroy secularist forces in order to install a Sharia Islamic state dominated by militant Sunni Islam. This means that “the light of Levant Islam, the mosaic of Syria and secularism” is being allowed to be crushed by outside nations which care zilch about democracy and pluralism. After all, when did Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the CIA care about democracy and morality? leejay@moderntokyotimes.com http://moderntokyotimes.com