How and why did Wahhabism catch on?

How and why did Wahhabism catch on?

Is it too late to reverse it?

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Yeah if we stop feeding the animals.

Kill the people who support it aka the Royal Saudi family, the kikes, and the American government

Yep. We should cut all ties with Saudi arabia. Or just invade them .

And implement renewable energy no matter how memey it may be.
If they attack us we should react just like the Israelis do and level a few blocks and kill key individuals with targeted airstrikes.

Ottomans looked down on wahhabists.

That sect was small and unknown for the most part till the Saudi family spread it. It didn't really catch on as it's a minority but it did make salafism. I'm pretty sure the only country that propagates wahabism is Saudi Arabia

I think qatar does it too.

Yeah but who knows if they've done it successfully enough that there are agents outside of Saudi Arabia that successfully propagate it

If your religion is so unstable and based on so violent/insane precepts as to allow such a toxic ideology to spread almost the whole length and breadth of the Islamic world, it's a problem with Islam, not just Wahhabism. Besides, stopping the Wahhabi boogeyman isn't going to put a halt to Muslim fuckery, as evidenced by Iran.

Because Islam and it's Arab followers are ass backwards and have been since the Industrial Revolution.

You guys realize that if you cut ties with the Sauds, they will just go straight to Moscow or Beijing right?

They will be more than happy to ditch those petty westerners who constantly whine about muh human rights.

The House of Saud + Turkish Empirialism Collapsing + GP interventionism

What does Iran have to do with fucking Wahabism? They aren't even the ones who are funding Islamic extremist groups that go after Western nations like the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, etc...?

>evidenced by Iran
Protip: Wahabism and Salafism are a Sunni thing. Iran is Shiite.

>Wahhabi boogeyman isn't going to put a halt to Muslim fuckery, as evidenced by Iran.
Iran is fighting Wahhabism and Salafism, idiot.

The Saudis are the ones who financed ISIS and Al Queda, funded 9/11 hijackers, spread Wahhabism around the Middle East to destabilize it, and so forth. Iranians have not caused nearly 1/10th the damage the Saudi have, who're allies with the West.

ISIS, Boko Haram, Al-queda and other groups embrace Wahabism and Salafaism, mate. Why do you think ISIS has Iran and Iraq on their hit list as much as Israel, EU, and the US? On top of that, other allies of "ours" like Pakistan are no different then Saudi Arabia. Pakistan funded, supported, trained, and aided the Taliban in Afghanistan, they even have their own fucking Taliban sister organization in Pakistan, the same group that goes around killing school girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan for daring to go to school or dousing women's faces with acid.

Iran is being attacked by terror groups sponsored by the Pakistanis and Saudis who are Salafists/Wahabists.

In my post I was giving an example of a non-Wahhabi organization of Muslims equally as tyrannical and shit as the Wahhabi, except for the fact that they're the opposite. It's supposed to be an example that the shittiness that Wahhabi is is easily replicatable all over the Muslim world, even in completely opposite Islamic ideologies, like Shia. Iran has the same religious oppression, women-oppression, and bloodlust as IS and Al-Qaeda.
>tfw you literally genocide Zoroastrians and actively destroy Zoroastrian culture/people/temples and America gives you several billion dollars

This. Saudi oil $$$ and the prestige they get from controlling Mecca and Medina are the main sustaining factor. There's some evidence that US/Israel/etc. value it as a way to keep the Middle East divided (because they're so focused on attacking other Muslims), but this probably isn't the main factor.

Wahabists and Salafists are the ones that are specifically going after the West though, retard.

>women oppression in Iran
Is that why 2/3rds of university graduates in Iranian colleges and universities are women? And they dominate engineering, architecture, and natural science departments, JIDF?

>are the ones that are specifically going after the West though, retard.

prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-district-court-rules-iran-behind-911-attacks-136148008.html

>tfw he can't actually give a rebuttal to his original claim and instead strawmans like a mother fucker

>fake news

>source: Iran911case.com
lol

cbsnews.com/news/judge-iran-taliban-al-qaeda-liable-for-9-11/

>mfw I started a /q/ thread a couple years ago with that picture and my first response was from moot

>federal judge
Not proving anything. Also the actual federal commission detailed to investigate, report, and summarized the events of 9/11 on the World Trade Center attacks and Pentagon attack ruled that Iran had no involvement whatsoever with Al queda at all after several years of fact finding.

The commission that had a bunch of pages that they refused to release to the public, that happened 7 years before the more recent court case?

The commission which instituted the official report to the US Congress and public has stated Iran had nothing to do with the hijackers involved in the 9/11 attack other then them passing through their country from Afghanistan where Bin Laden had based his operations since the late 80s.

There is no statement from the commission that Iran aided, abetted, supported, or involved itself with al Queda. Especially on top of the fact al Queda is anti-Iranian, anti-Shia, and was allied with the Taliban who repeatedly with and without the support of Pakistan's extremist Sunni military, committed attacks on Iranian borders and diplomats throughout the early to late 90s.

Anyone arguing Iran was helping Osama attack the US is a retard.

>The commission that had a bunch of pages that they refused to release to the public
Which means nothing. The US is anti-Iranian as it stands before 9/11. There is no reason for them to withhold information that would give them the impetus to target Iran for military retribution or further economic and trade sanctions, the US gains nothing from it. So I severely fucking doubt there's shit unreleased in those documents that would implicate Iran at all.

>There is no reason for them to withhold information that would give them the impetus to target Iran for military retribution or further economic and trade sanctions
>what is "not wanting to go to war with Iran"

No shit they're going to downplay something which almost certainly drags them into an even more destructive, hopeless, unpopular war than the one in Iraq.

And frankly, I'd actually trust a federal civil case more than a congressional investigation.

The civil case has established rules for discovery, documentation, and fact finding. If any of these rules are broken, you can take it to an appellate court and get the decision reversed.

And it's not an isolated incident.

>theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/28/qassem-suleimani-iran-iraq-influence
>Iranian proxies thought to be responsible for 1100 US deaths in Iraq

>cnn.com/2013/06/13/world/meast/beirut-marine-barracks-bombing-fast-facts/index.html
>US judge finds Iran responsible for Beirut barracks bombing

And, you know, they started out their government by taking US hostages. It's almost like they don't like us.

>let's use slightly different shades of green

That's why the Russians and Chinese would be exterminated beforehand, doofus.

All you listed was a single federal judge who was overruled by the White House and Congress and are giving me crackpot conspiracy theory bullshit. Especially when your ultimately trying to link a NOTED ANTI-IRANIAN, ANTI-SHIA Pro-Sunni/Salafist/Wahabist backed organization with 9/11 incidents.

Not buying it.

>I trust a federal civil case more than a congressional investigation
There is zero point in debating you on this then. You are crazy. The rest of your links are again:

>singular cases that are seen as outliers by the US government itself and no heavy proof was ever documented or linked with Iran

Not buying it.

>who was overruled by the White House and Congress

That isn't how this works.

The legislature can't "overrule" the judicial branch.

In the US legal system, a court is the legally binding fact finder. What they rule is legally true. That's why they have the constitutional authority to take people's money and throw people in jail, and the other two branches don't.

A ruling conducted by the judicial branch is constitutionally required to be free of bias and based on the evidence, and the discovery process and appeals system are specifically designed to maintain that standard.

>singular cases that are seen as outliers by the US government itself and no heavy proof was ever documented or linked with Iran

>US government has explicitly, repeatedly stated that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism
>Iran is on the official State Department list of governments that sponsor terrorism
>the US has sanctioned Iran for terrorism on multiple occasions
>Hezbollah shares a large amount of its senior leadership with Quds Force

Are you the same fag posting Persia threads? If this is what they mean by "cyber-warfare" I hope they don't piss off anyone who matters any time soon.

Where is the statement from the US government indicating Iran had any involvement with al Queda, you moron? From that actual federal government's branches, not a single court case that got thrown out. Stop giving hypotheticals and actually prove and provide evidence of Iran's involvement other then "THEIR COVERING IT UP GUYS!"

>Are you the same fag posting Persia threads?
I have nothing to do with Persia threads, can you not poison the well any harder then you are already doing, JIDF? Are you really this stupid?

>US government has explicitly, repeatedly, stated that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.
Yes. Still irrelevant to the tangent though.
>Iran is on the official State Department list of governments that sponsor terrorism
Yes. Still irrelevant to the tangent though.
>The US has sanctioned Iran for terrorism on multiple occasions
Yes. Still irrelevant to the tangent though.
>Hezbollah shares a large amount of its senor leadership with Quds Force
Possibly. Still irrelevant to the tangent though. Not that user but you need to seriously pony up with the evidence that Iran would ever affliate with al Queda; a terrorist organization that like he and others have said are:

- radical Sunni
- follow Salafist/Wahabist beliefs
- anti-Shia
- anti-Iranian
- anti-Kurdish
- have supported organizations like the Balouchi separtists and coordinated with Pakistan's Taliban and the Afghani Taliban groups to attack Iran and its citizenry
- Bin Laden making repeated threats to Iran since the 70s
- Current leadership of ISIS still anti-Iranian even before the US-Iraq War or Afghan War

So again to recap: why would Shia Iranians who hate al Queda and ISIS operate or coordinate with people who work with other people who hate them and have committed terorism against them in the last several decades and want them dead? Also, the 9/11 Commission has cleared Iran of any involvement and that includes vetting senior military, intelligence, and government personal at the highest levels to declassify documents, information, and data to investigate the case since it was the first major attack on US soil by a foreign group or nation in over a century.

You sound silly.

>that actual federal government's branches, not a single court case that got thrown out

I don't know if you know this, but a federal court is a part of the federal government.

Seriously, am I going to have to teach you high school civics?

The legislature creates laws, the executive conducts investigations of people who break the laws, and the judiciary weighs the arguments provided to them by the plaintiff against the arguments of the defense, and decides whether somebody broke the law.

The judiciary has the final say in any matter that involves incarceration, execution, or loss of property.

Under US law, you can sue foreign governments in US courts for damages. Of course, since they are not in the US, you can't get those damages unless either the foreign government agrees to pay out, or the US freedoms their punk asses.

Nonetheless, a US Court is the only branch of the government that can determine the facts of a case. Congress can gather evidence in especially important situation, due to their power of subpoena, and the executive branch is responsible for conducting criminal investigations, but the judicial branch is the only one whose word is legally binding in a matter of fact.

>JIDF
>Are you really this stupid?
>can you not poison the well any harder then you are already doing

I don't think you realize, but there is profound irony in these three statements. Well done.

>why would Shia Iranians who hate al Queda and ISIS operate or coordinate with people who work with other people who hate them and have committed terorism against them in the last several decades and want them dead?
>dodging the actual evidence that this is the case

washingtonpost.com/opinions/iran-responsible-for-1998-us-embassy-bombings/2011/12/08/gIQAuEAAfO_story.html?utm_term=.aab0a37b6aa1

Gee, it's another US court ruling that Iran collaborated with Al Qaeda, in a different attack

dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Feb-07/246688-us-targets-key-iran-based-al-qaeda-facilitator.ashx

Gee, it's the US Treasury Department stating that Iran supports Al Qaeda in Syria.

>blogs.wsj.com/corruption-currents/2012/10/18/treasury-places-sanctions-on-al-qaeda-operative-in-iran/

Gee, it's the Treasury Department naming an Al Qaeda operative that Iran is sheltering.

>washingtonpost.com/local/crime/judge-orders-sudan-iran-to-pay-75-million-to-family-of-uss-cole-victim/2015/03/31/a2105dd8-d7b8-11e4-ba28-f2a685dc7f89_story.html

Gee, it's yet another federal court ruling that Iran helped Al Qaeda with yet another terrorist attack.

dailycaller.com/2011/12/16/federal-judge-iran-shares-responsibility-for-911-terror-attacks/#ixzz26yuUm99b

Gee, it's a judge explicitly listing all of the evidence, including the flight simulators that Iran bought for Al Qaeda, and the internal memorandums from the Iranian government itself showing their cooperation.

Enjoy your AIDS.

>Iran and shias are good boys meme
Tell that to Argentina.

t. Diego Austerlitz

>current statement by the 9/11 Federal Commission and Investigation Committee: Iran has been cleared of any charges or involvement with the 9/11 attacks

Keep moving the goal posts, mr. strawman.

I did some looking into that too.

>The 9/11 Commission Report stated that 8 to 10 of the hijackers on 9/11 previously passed through Iran and their travel was facilitated by Iranian border guards.[46][54] The report also found "circumstantial evidence that senior Hezbollah operatives were closely tracking the travel of some of these future muscle hijackers into Iran in November 2000."[54] After the commission called for "further investigation" into a possible Iranian role in the attacks, President George W. Bush demanded that Iran sever its ties with al-Qaeda, while saying that in his view, "There was no direct connection between Iran and the attacks of September 11."[55]

It's almost like I can't trust you to be honest intellectually.

Its like you can't read, JIDF:
>"There was no direct connection between Iran and the attack on September 11th"

Hurr durr:

>"By contrast, the 9/11 Commission "found no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah was aware of the planning for later became the 9/11 attack. At the time of their travel through Iran, the al Qaeda operatives themselves were probably not aware of the specific details of their future operation." In addition, both bin al-Shibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed denied "any relationship between the hijackers and Hezbollah" and "any other reason for the hijackers' travel to Iran" besides "taking advantage of the Iranian practice of not stamping Saudi passports.""
>"besides taking advantage of the Iranian practice of not stamping Saudi passports"

>On June 20, 1994 explosion of a bomb in a prayer hall of Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad that killed at least 25 people. The Iranian government officially blamed Mujahedin-e-Khalq for the incident to avoid sectarian conflict between Shias and Sunnis.However, the Pakistani daily The News International reported on March 27, 1995, "Pakistani investigators have identified a 24-year-old religious fanatic Abdul Shakoor residing in Lyari in Karachi, as an important Pakistani associate of Ramzi Yousef. Abdul Shakoor had intimate contacts with Ramzi Ahmed Yousef and was responsible for the June 20, 1994, massive bomb explosion at the shrine Imam Ali Reza in Mashhad."According to the Jamestown Foundation Terrorism Monitor, "a report produced by the [Iranian] Ministry of Intelligence in October 1994 identified the culprits as operatives of Pakistan's "Lashkare Jhangvi"-the sister organization of Sepahe Sahaba."
>On August 8, 1998 the Taliban assisted by Al-Qaeda, attacked the Afghan city of Mazari Sharif killing 11 Iranian diplomats and journalists along with thousands of Afghan civilians, in what was considered an attack motivated by takfir against Shia.
>The Taliban were also thought to have "secretly" backed anti-regime Iranian groups, such as the Iranian Sunni militant group Ahl-e-Sunna Wal Jamaat from Khorasan and Sistan provinces. The group received weapons and support from the Taliban and "Iranians were convinced that the Pakistanis were also sponsoring them." The group sought to overthrow the Shia Iranian government, despite the fact that Iran was overwhelmingly Shia
>Jundallah, a Sunni Islamist Baloch insurgent organization based in Balochistan, claims to be fighting for the rights of Sunni in Iran.[23] It is believed to have 1,000 fighters and claims to have killed 400 Iranian soldiers. The group has been identified as a terrorist organization by Iran and Pakistan and many believe it is linked to Al-Qaeda.

>"circumstantial evidence that senior Hezbollah operatives were closely tracking the travel of some of these future muscle hijackers into Iran in November 2000.
>recommended further investigation
>further investigation found that the suspicions were valid
>JIDF

I don't think there's any group on the internet with the raw impotent rage of the Muslim.

You've got all the sexual frustration of a robot, with all of the inferiority complex of a regular third worlder, and they've lost more wars than a Serb.

Really, after a literal federal case, most people would just change the subject.

>circumstantial evidence
You really can't read.
>Muslim
Not one, but please keep claiming I am one as well for disagreeing with your retarded narrative that's literally not accepted by the US government either.

Really, you should kill yourself, Shekelstein.

>that's literally not accepted by the US government either

>circumstantial evidence
>Circumstantial evidence is evidence that relies on an inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact—like a fingerprint at the scene of a crime. By contrast, direct evidence supports the truth of an assertion directly—i.e., without need for any additional evidence or inference.
Yeah no wonder why the US government even under both the Bush and Obama administrations from two wildly different political parties don't indicate Shia Iran having anything to do with a Sunni terrorist organization.

>Muslim
>Third worlder
>inferiority complex

Keep up with the weak ad naseum personal attacks, attempts at poisoning the well, and everything else, its not saving you any face here dude.

:^)

>the US government don't indicate Shia Iran having anything to do with a Sunni terrorist organization.

>"By contrast, the 9/11 Commission "found no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah was aware of the planning for later became the 9/11 attack. At the time of their travel through Iran, the al Qaeda operatives themselves were probably not aware of the specific details of their future operation." In addition, both bin al-Shibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed denied "any relationship between the hijackers and Hezbollah" and "any other reason for the hijackers' travel to Iran" besides "taking advantage of the Iranian practice of not stamping Saudi passports.""

>a federal court case isn't evidence

The British installed the Saudi Tribe as leaders of the region, usurping the protection of Mecca and Medina from the Hashimite tribe, who were literally banished from the region by the Saudis, who were hating on the Hashimite tribe for like, a billion years.

The Saudis, being usurpers, were not accepted by literally anyone, even as they tried to claim Caliphate. Everyone lol'd at them and a religious movement, based on tribal norms and laws, gained popularity and moved against the Saudis.

The Saudis, being cowards and thieves, became submissive to Wahhabi and his followers.

You end it by sanctioning Saudi Arabia and not giving them weapons and treating them like how the US has been treating Iran.

My family calls it "Saudi occupied Arabia". No joke

>but it did make salafism

wrong you idiot. Salafism is one of the 4 major schools of thought in Islam. all 4 appeared in basically before 1000 AD if I recall correctly. If later, still very early in Islamic history.

either way, Salafi and Hanbali are relatively the same. both are literalist interpretations of Islam and the Quran, but Salafi are more hardline in the social aspect of it. I forgot the major differences.

Either way, Malaki has been the most popular and dominant for most of Islamic history by rulers. Malaki school of thought basically says everything is a metaphor. This made Islam more as a limiter of political power, instead of imposer of one. The elite actually hated Malaki because it limited their power. That's why they either clinged to Hanbali or Malaki, or outlawed all political parties that are even sorta religious (thus making religious people lash out due to repression).

>where nothing happened

please don't believe that propaganda. Why in the FUCK would a small militia in a country smaller than all but 2 US states that basically only protected the southern border give a shit about argentina.

dance to the music, little puppet.

>have chance to kill Jews
>kill Jews

I'm not sure how this is complicated stuff.

Salafi is close to Hanbali in terms of jurisprudence, but they're almost completely distinct in application of Islamic principles. The Hanbali creed is what Salafis claim to follow which makes their school seem authentic.

The propaganda machine tried to hide the Iranian involvement with bribery.
A prosecutor got murdered last year, its not just a 90s thing, Iran is still killing people to cover their tracks.
There is no such thing as a good muslim.

They don't give a shit about Jews.

They give a shit about the white people who happen to be Jews stealing and occupying and bombing their land.

It's so easy to disregard them and say it's about racism, because white people are so fervently racist that they'd believe a group of people causing war for decades over race is believable. Jews lived with no issues in Iran and Lebanon/Syria for over a thousand years before white people stole the region of Palestine.

Hezbollah has done nothing but fight Israeli occupation and expansion. Nothing else.

>"By contrast, the 9/11 Commission "found no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah was aware of the planning for later became the 9/11 attack. At the time of their travel through Iran, the al Qaeda operatives themselves were probably not aware of the specific details of their future operation." In addition, both bin al-Shibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed denied "any relationship between the hijackers and Hezbollah" and "any other reason for the hijackers' travel to Iran" besides "taking advantage of the Iranian practice of not stamping Saudi passports."
>The official sanctioned committee that went on for several years who handpicked top level investigators don't mean anything!

where's your family from?

>white people
>saying there is no good in any other faciton

Europeans have literally destroyed everything on earth, even Europe. You don't have a place to speak.

Iran is a government. Of course it's going to lie through its' teeth and hide shit. but a random bombing on the otherside of the world provided absolutely no benefit to anyone in the middle east. Sorry, that's now how things work.

Hezbollah TV literally shows Jews giving everybody AIDS for the lulz.

>Circumstantial evidence is evidence that relies on an inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact—like a fingerprint at the scene of a crime. By contrast, direct evidence supports the truth of an assertion directly—i.e., without need for any additional evidence or inference/

>white people
What part of me being Argentinian did you not get?
> but a random bombing on the otherside of the world provided absolutely no benefit to anyone in the middle east.
Nothing religious people do benefits them in this life they do it for the promise of rewards in another life.

The House of Saud made a deal with the devil when they allied themselves with Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. Saudi shits ended up ruling over Arabia instead of based Hashemites.

that's comedy and rhetoric.

That also doesn't prove anything. An Israeli got only 6 months in jail for burning a bunch of houses and burning a baby alive.

Israel's catchphrase is litearlly "The jewish State." Which is either theocratic, or racial. Who would've thought a bunch of Europeans with 19th century European philosophies would be racist occupiers and cause racism by those they are repressing and bombing in response?

>What part of me being Argentinian did you not get?

The part where you didn't say that. dont argentinians wish they were white? that's even worse.

>Nothing religious people do benefits them in this life they do it for the promise of rewards in another life.

So they fervently bomb everyone? Shut up, you retard. Hezbollah's entire goal was to remove Israeli soldiers from Lebanon and Lebanese territory and resist their expansion. Argentina had fuck all to do with that except Reagan saying Hezbollah did it and your puppet government sucking his dick in agreement.

>Hezbollah's entire goal was to remove Israeli soldiers from Lebanon and Lebanese territory and resist their expansion
>implying their goal isn't to protect Shiite interests in the region to the expense of all else
>implying Syria didn't invade Lebanon before Israel did

>Hezbollah
What? some random Iranian terrorists are behind it not some lebbo cunts and you are not making me feel sympathy for the palestinian cause since my continent was built on the colonization of primitive savages.

It'd be more accurate to say that your continent was built on fucking primitive savages while a small landed gentry controls an overwhelming majority of all economic activity.

(You)

>Iran offers to help the US fight Taliban/Al Qaeda after 9/11 (before Bush's axis of evil speech)
>Iran was in on it the entire time
Pick one.

And are you really implying that American politicians wouldn't want war with Iran? The US gave Saddam chemical weapons, among other things, to kill Iranian troops. The US shot down a civilian airliner from Iran. The US launched Operation Praying Mantis against the Iranian Navy. Let's not forget the multiple embargoes and countless "IRAN IS GONNA NUKE US ALL!!" propaganda commercials. Furthermore, Libya and Syria, both allies of Iran, have effectively been destroyed by the West.

And, you know, they started out by overthrowing the democratically-elected government of Mohammed Mossadeq because he wouldn't bend the knee. It's almost like the US doesn't like them.

As for Iraq, Iran is supporting Shia militias in their fights against groups like ISIS and AQ.

>Iran supports Al Qaeda in Syria.
Yeah because Iran would put millions of dollars, along with weapons and soldiers, to back Assad then turn around and fund his enemies.

You don't know anything about the situation in the Middle East. Stop posting.

>US courts
>not biased towards a country that revolted against their puppet dictator
Pick one.

>ecause Iran would put millions of dollars, along with weapons and soldiers, to back Assad then turn around and fund his enemies
>implying this isn't par for the course in Middle Eastern politics
>implying funding opposition that is unpalatable to the west and fighting opposition that isn't isn't a great way to get the west to stop backing the opposition

>my continent was built on the colonization of primitive savages.
And then those primitive savages stole all the works of their benevolent colonizers.

Grasping at straws.

Iran certainly isn't in a position to play both sides, nor would they want to be.

Broseph, everyone in the Middle East is playing both sides, all of the time.

If you can't get this, you're really going to have problems understanding the region.

>have the entirety of the West ready to jump on any excuse to bomb the fuck out of your country
>willing to play both sides

Iran has no reason to do this. In fact, it'd be against their own interests. Hezbollah, Iraq, and Syria are useful proxies. Iran would not risk losing their help to fund wahhabis who make a name of murdering Shias and are publicly anti-Iran. Doing so would cost the loyalty of the proxies, and thus Iran's influence in an extremely important area of the world.

It's simple.

The narrative, from the beginning of the war has been "the Syrian opposition are terrorists, Assad is the only solution"

No shit Syria and Iran want that to be the case, and have taken every possible step to turn it into a reality. That makes their lives infinitely easier.

>implying the opposition aren't terrorists

They weren't in 2011.

It was mostly army defectors and Sunni civilians.

Now, you'd be correct, because Assad isn't stupid.

Sunni civilians rebelled because the government never took the shit from Wahhabis. Those demonstrations allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to reenter Syria, which all those "protestors" really wished for. Now, those "protestors" are living lavishly in Australia and UK while their countrymen are being slaughtered by the Wahhabi entities they let enter Syria.

(You) are literally retarded holy shit.

Note that only four countries that had revolutions during the Arab Spring.

One of these is a functioning democracy, one of these reverted to military rule, and one of these is winding down their civil war under a coalition government.

Only in Syria did these protests escalate into a fascist vs. fascist bloodbath.

This is because Syria was by far the most repressive government in the Middle East, with the most heavy handed response to dissent.

When Lebanon is taking millions of refugees from your country, there is a problem.

>inb4 CIA did it

Prove it.