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		<title>Syria, Russia and China: Outrageously Inhuman!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Syrian regime has turned against its own people. Killing, massacres, disfiguring and toruring prisoners, raping women, slaying children, nothing more atrocious, nothing more brutal and ugly. How far would human nature plunge into bloodshed and offer humans on the altar of a mad president and his entourage? Russia and China are not new to oppression and massacre of their own people. They all meet in cruelty and barbarism!]]></description>
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<strong>To the Editor: </strong>
<p>The Syrian regime has turned against its own people. Killing, ,assacres, disfiguring and toruring prisoners, raping women, slaying children, nothing more atrocious, nothing more brutal and ugly. How far would human nature plunge into bloodshed and offer humans on the altar of a mad president and his entourage?</p>
<p>Nowhere in the history of Syria has been such atrocious crimes since the times of Holaco the leader murderer of the Mogols. But this surpasses all cruelty and all barabaric crimes. Crimes against humanity is a gentle expression used by the useless UN and its worth for nothing SC.</p>
<p>Nothing more disgusting and nausea vomitting sense than to see the Syrian people being murdered, women, men and children in their homes. Too easy to aim tank guns and mortars and heavy guns over the civil and peaceful districts of Homs, Hamah, Idleb and Daraa. Nothing more easy than to kill civilians by the thouands. No crime is more horrible than to kill ones own people. No cowardly act can be justified when mahine guns target children and bring the roofs of their houses on their heads.</p>
<p>As if this is not enough! Russians descendants of the cruel and savage Vikings, being well trained to savagery under the repression of the Tsars and then being well aducated by the Marxist atheist ideology, generations of the KGB, are backing up the Syrian onslaughter and heinous massacre committed by the Assad regime. Of course Russian children, women and old men are not targeted by the Syrian guns. They lose nothing by seeing the Syrians being murdered in the strretes of towns and cities of Syria.</p>
<p>After all the Russian bear is as cold as the Siberian snow and as ugly as the Godless regime of Moscow. The Kremlin is not new to atrocious crimes against humanity. But the Russians have forgotten the Russian revolution in October 1917 and how much bloodshed was spelt in the streets.</p>
<p>Their interest is not to save lives and human beings but count how much money they get for selling their arms to the Syrian regime to slaughter its people. Russia is now dominated by a dictator, another Tsar and few trillionaires feeding on the blood of the Russian people who live in appaling state of deprivation and poverty while life and survival are getting harder and harder and the Russian mafia rule the economy.</p>
<p>China, has backed up the slaughter and massacre of the Syrian civilians for calling for freedom and human dignity, but they have no hearts to feel, being descendants of the ruthless emperors of the tang and Ming dynasties of hundreds of emperors. They are very well trained by the Atheist Moa Tsi Tong after his godfather Karl Marx in rutheless and brutal massacre of their own people. Forty millions of respectable and honest intellectuals were masscared by the red army at the command of Mao, being accused of calling for freedom and dignity.</p>
<p>The Chinese regime cushed brutally and by tanks the peaceful uprising of students in the streets of Beijing. Hundreds of lives were sacrificed for the communist cause and there is nothing communist about it. It represents an authoratarian dictatorship for the ruling elite in China while the rest of the people suffer, poverty and deprivation. One billion and half of robot chinese live under the totalitarian oppression of the Chinese rulers, descendants of Mao and the ruthless emperors.</p>
<p>Thus, Russia and China as regimes of diciatorships have a lot in common with the Alaite regime in Syria. They are all atheist regimes, in form and essence, and this is why they have no conscience and no heart, human or otherwise. They all repress their people, They all justify their crimes against humans by proclaiming order and just cause.</p>
<p>Whenever God is exchanged by man and whenever religious moral codes are exchanged by ideological cheap morality serving egoist persons of the rulers, people  suffer the most.</p>
<p><strong>Sincerely,</strong><br />
<strong><a title="mardini" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/mardini/493292">mardini</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Democracy in the Middle East &#8211; Why This is a Frightening Prospect For Its Rulers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's no secret that today the Middle East lacks the democratic political past, high literacy rates and high standards of living to claim democracy as its main political system. The political and economic reforms that occurred in Central and Eastern Europe or in East Asia and stimulated democratic change cannot be compared to the authoritarian Arab leaders in the majority of the Arab countries.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>To The Editor:</strong><br />
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It&#8217;s no secret that today the Middle East lacks the democratic political past, high literacy rates and high standards of living to claim democracy as its main political system. The political and economic reforms that occurred in Central and Eastern Europe or in East Asia and stimulated democratic change cannot be compared to the authoritarian Arab leaders in the majority of the Arab countries. Besides, the Arab nations have been persistently resistant to economic modernization and democratization, a concept that has been known as &#8216;Arab exceptionalism&#8217;. Also, by being fundamentally religious rather than secular states, Arab nations believe in individual choice as promoted by Islamic fundamentalism.</p>
<p>Many Arabs in the Middle East are dissatisfied with their autocratic leaders who had promised heaven but delivered filth and tyranny. And possibly this demonstrates that democratic governance in the eyes of lay people in the Middle East is a possibility that has nothing to do with their Arab and Islamic culture. Like their counterparts elsewhere, Arabs have strived for liberating themselves from political totalitarianism, for the most part unsuccessfully because their powerful dictators were supported by the West. Yet, the lay people in Iraq viewed the US troops as liberators from the oppressive ruling of Saddam and his autocracy.</p>
<p>Indeed, Islam complicates democracy. Even after its defective elections, Iran, a long-standing theocracy, demonstrates an extraordinary democratic vigor. Some of the toughest Arab elections have been held by Palestinians under Israeli ruling and by Iraqis after the US invasion. So, in a way, Islam has allowed democracy to its territories. On the other hand, Arab leaders hold on to their power through a distrustful combination of bullying and intimidation. Occasionally, they allow hollow parties organize counterfeit elections, which then return them to power. When they are given the chance to participate in genuine elections, they know what is at stake and what is going to be possibly split between Islamist movements and secular movements that are scared of Islam. Most of the cosmetic reforms that were made under the &#8216;freedom agenda&#8217; of Bush administration after the September 11, 2001 attacks have been rolled back. So, in a way, Islam chooses when to prevent and when to allow democracy.</p>
<p>One of the most common obstacles in democratic transformation in the Middle East is religious freedom. Islam emphasizes that people are free to choose to believe or not. Muslim history documented many debates in mosques about the existence of God, particularly in the first three centuries. Besides, Qur&#8217;an emphasizes on justice and consultation (shura). According to many political analysts, in the absence of clear institutions to identify how consultation should take place in the Muslim culture, many Arabs failed to interpret the message. Hence, the interpretation of some elements of Islam as liberal is rather unfortunate.</p>
<p>Another element that should be taken into consideration is the fact that in many Arab countries regimes are quite permanent. Hosni Mubarak is the President of Egypt over the last 28 years; Muammar al-Gaddafi is the de facto leader of Libya since 1969; Hafez Assad was the President of Syria for 30 years. After his death, his son Bashar rose to power. After the failure of Bush administration to promote democracy, president Obama promotes respect in his talks with the Arab world. No matter what that means to the Muslims, democracy is a long shot for the Arab nations because Arab leaders won&#8217;t be able to control the masses like they do now.</p>
<p>For the Arab world, democracy implies education, institutions, free press and tolerance. Like in the Western countries, in the Arab nations, women are becoming educated, fertility declines, businessmen participate in the economy and the media have shifted from the state-run media to the revolution of the satellite television that forces leaders to explain and justify and explain themselves in public. All this transformation is not enough to cause a big change and it&#8217;s definitely not welcome from the rulers. However, it creates an agitation that alters the setting of corruption and totalitarianism of the old Arab governments.</p>
<p>In reality, it appears that the Arabs want to maintain the status quo because a free media that will awake the Arab people to the brutality of the regional governments won&#8217;t be to the best national interests of the Arab nations.</p>
<p><strong>Sincerely,<br />
<a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Christina_Pomoni">Christina Pomoni</a></strong></p>
<p><em>Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Christina_Pomoni http://EzineArticles.com/?Democracy-in-the-Middle-East&#8212;Why-This-is-a-Frightening-Prospect-For-Its-Rulers&#038;id=2988828</em></p>
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