Waging Jihad To Impose Sharia Law

This is just one example of the ultimate goal of the Muslim Brotherhood...


Sharia law imposed in some rebel-controlled areas in Syria


The Syrian revolution has mutated from a spontaneous uprising against the authoritarian rule of the Assad family into a full-scale war, and is now changing yet again – into what appears to be a systematic, coordinated effort to impose strict Sharia Islamic law in those parts of Syria which have come under the control of the Jihadi elements in the anti-Assad coalition.

The Syrian anti-regime uprising began two years ago as part of the broader Arab Spring rebellion against authoritarian Arab regimes. In Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, the autocratic leaders decided to leave power without putting much of a fight.

In Libya, Col. Qaddafi fought back, but a NATO-led international coalition provided military support to the insurgents, and he was removed.

Syria is different from these cases in at least four respects:

•President Bashar Assad retains the support of about 20-25 percent of the population – Alawites, Druze, Kurds, Christians, and some middle class Sunnis. So far, most of the military and the security services have remained loyal to him.
•Assad also enjoys the support of outside forces – Iran, Iraq, Russia, and Hezbollah. These allies keep sending substantial military and economic support to shore up the regime, and Hezbollah has sent thousands of its fighters to help the Syrian military fight the rebels.
•There is no international coalition offering meaningful military support to the rebels.
•The Syrian war is more clearly a war of Sunni Arabs against a non-Sunni regime.
Most of the support for the rebels comes from two countries – Saudi Arabia and Qatar. As was the case in Libya, the Qataris direct their support almost exclusively to the most fundamentalist elements in the anti-regime coalition.

As a result, the Jihadist Jabhat al-Nusra, an group on the U.S. terrorist organization list, has emerged as the strongest militia among the different armies and militias fighting the regime.