Hello TypeXXIII,
apart from what i saw in the news i have some friends that studied in Goettingen, Germany in the eighties. I still have contact to them, as well i've been in Syria recently.
I guess you have no idea what it is like there - the dictatorship controls everything and everywhere. You cannot discuss anything freely, the common people have no idea what it is like to live in a "free country" (e.g. in Denmark). They are frustrated because they have no influence of the "state" at all, this is no democracy, not even a kingdom.
The dictatorship and the security police use every argument against the west that they will be able to find, it does not need any evidence. Main thing is it distracts the people from inner problems like killing the Kurds, restrictive politics, bad economics, poverty etc..
The imams are only jumping the bandwagon and canalize the reservoir of anger and frustration towards their goals. They certainly lay the roots for forthcoming years of hate in the children, and that is why i will not believe an imam speaking of tolerance and the like - simple as that.
If the danish prime minister says he will not go to control the news media because he simply is not able to do this in a free society, no one in Syria believes him. If a member of Syria's government told a newspaper to hold back information or whatever this newspaper will obey - or the editor and boss will be thrown out and executed.
What i want to point out is the control of the state is just as tight or tense that it will not allow any "free" action like spontaneous burning of embassies.
If you think of "spontaneous" burning of books, terrorizing jews and the ability of freee speech under the Nazi regime you will get a glimpse of what it is like.
Greetings,
Catfish
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