Not Islamists, Islamist extremist. Are there terrorists other than Islamic extremists in the Syrian revolution?
Now, if you want to discuss the company's numbers, 30% moderates. You don't think there are people (not someone) who could be in a position of power in Syria? This naming of a specific Good Leader is rather backwards. The question is not what person but what people. I'm with the moderates. The dictator who killed ~50k civilians and used chems to hold the capital city needs to go. I'll take my chances with a UN supported, sanction free, with human rights, fledgling democracy that could take a generation or two before appearing liberal and Western government.
Yes.....the MB would be one even though they state they are against the use of violence. Then I would go with what most are pointing too. Like from this in post 12.
Islamist Rebels Create Dilemma on Syria Policy
In Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, rebels aligned with Al Qaeda control the power plant, run the bakeries and head a court that applies Islamic law. Elsewhere, they have seized government oil fields, put employees back to work and now profit from the crude they produce.
Across Syria, rebel-held areas are dotted with Islamic courts staffed by lawyers and clerics, and by fighting brigades led by extremists.
Even the Supreme Military Council, the umbrella rebel organization whose formation the West had hoped would sideline radical groups,
is stocked with commanders who want to infuse Islamic law into a future Syrian government.
Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of.
More than two years of violence have radicalized the armed opposition fighting the government of President Bashar al-Assad, leaving few groups that both share the political vision of the United States and have the military might to push it forward.
Among the most extreme groups is the notorious Al Nusra Front, the Qaeda-aligned force declared a terrorist organization by the United States,
but other groups share aspects of its Islamist ideology in varying degrees.
The Islamist character of the opposition reflects the main constituency of the rebellion, which has been led since its start by Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority, mostly in conservative, marginalized areas. The descent into brutal civil war has hardened sectarian differences, and the failure of more mainstream rebel groups to secure regular arms supplies has allowed Islamists to fill the void and win supporters.
The religious agenda of the combatants sets them apart from many civilian activists, protesters and aid workers who had hoped the uprising would create a civil, democratic Syria.
When the armed rebellion began, defectors from the government’s staunchly secular army formed the vanguard.
The rebel movement has since grown to include fighters with a wide range of views, including Qaeda-aligned jihadis seeking to establish an Islamic emirate, political Islamists inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood and others who want an Islamic-influenced legal code like that found in many Arab states.
Another prominent group,
Ahrar al-Sham, shares much of Nusra’s extremist ideology but is made up mostly of Syrians.....snip~
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/wo...anted=all&_r=0
Also, we have another source that says even the FSA and SNC backers follow a puritanical form of Islam. Which there are several that make up more of an accurate perception.
Even with that figure of 30k they say are Moderate. They are stating that they themselves are still going with an Islamist bent.
Yeah.....I am sure the UN would like to see every country in the World with UN, Sanctioned Free with human rights, fledgling Democracy. Doesn't mean that such will ever take place. Most would like to see Syria turn out that way. But then.....there just doesn't to be a real path to that endeavor. At this time and with these players.
