Feeling especially emotional on the issue #SyrianRefugees at the moment.
Will we allow #fascism to grip the West? To treat #Arabs the way Jews were treated by Nazi Germany? Internment camps? Tough screening?
Anti-Arab sentiment a tradition of the West. Hollywood typecasting of #Arabs; orientalist oversimplification of otherwise rich Arab culture.
This should also be classified as anti-semitism, since the word includes all Semitic linguistic groups: Arab, Hebrew, Aramaic, etc.
As if the West didn’t help to create this problem. #Syria
The solution is America butting out. #Syria
#America has carried on #England‘s torch of #imperialism. By butting out of the Middle East, reform and stability could be possible. #Syria
Neither reform nor stability will envelope the Middle East because that is against US interests.
Democracy or reform, will not be brought by the Americans to the Arab world and it never has been. #Syria
As soon as #America butts out, the #MiddleEast can enjoy its #sovereignty and an environment conducive to #reform; what form it may take.
Note America’s overthrow of democratically elected leaders in #Chile and #Iran. Stop the ignorance and propaganda.
Daesh should thus be called Wahhabi State of Saudi Arabia, given SA has support of Levant & Iraq combined.
The mere existence of the entity of the “Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” like the “State of Israel” is an imprint of a colonial past. #Syria
The guilt of the US is in knowing its negligence and greed essentially enabled Wahhabism. Mainly the policies of the @GOP. #Syria
Hollywood liberalism and mega church conservatism have suppressed the moderate center in US politics.
Arabs are constantly viewed through the spectrum of #Saudi culture & #Bedouin tribal lifestyle. This is orientalist, & prejudiced in nature.
If America was actually secular, it would have sided with Palestine long ago. But Christian ultranationalism has pushed it closer to Israel.
Secularism promotes religious tolerance & diversity whereas US ultraconservatives & Israeli politicians promote ethnocentrism and theocracy.
The sensitivities of religion have been exploited for the sake of resources and preservation of global imbalance via democratic-crusaderdom.
All in all, the more power the indigenous populations of Syria and elsewhere in the world are able to wield using the natural resources, geopolitical positioning, and collective unity as leverage, the better chance the country has at mitigating foreign exploitation. This would in turn provide greater political stability to Syria, and could essentially induce a more stable future. It could possibly usher more accountability in governance that could more appropriately address all aspects of Syrian livelihood; whatever “form” that mechanism for accountability may take. And it won’t be on the time watch or the standards of the West, or the East, which means its overall composition may be unique in form, democratic or not.