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Could Syria Ignite World War 3? That's The Terrifying Question As The Hatred Between Two Muslim Ideologies Sucks In The World's Superpowers

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  • Syrian conflict could engulf region in struggle between Sunni and Shia
  • Already claimed 93,000 lives and made 1.6million people refugees
  • UK, France and U.S. taken different side to China and Russia

By Michael Burleigh

Daily Mail

PUBLISHED: 17:03 EST, 13 June 2013 | UPDATED: 07:06 EST, 14 June 2013

The crisis in Syria may appear to be no more or less than a civil war in a country many people would struggle to place on a map.

But it’s much more than that: it is rapidly becoming a sectarian struggle for power that is bleeding across the Middle East, with the potential to engulf the entire region in a deadly power struggle between two bitterly opposed Muslim ideologies, Sunni and Shia.

Already, the war inside Syria has resulted in 93,000 dead and 1.6 million refugees, with millions more displaced internally. And those figures are escalating rapidly amid reports of appalling atrocities on both sides.

The conflict started in 2011 with peaceful protests against the authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad, the seemingly mild successor to his father Hafez, who between 1970 and 2000 ruled Syria with a rod of iron.

Hafez’s response to dissent from the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood was to wipe out a town of 20,000 people.

Fearing that Syria faced the kind of protests that had toppled the rulers of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya during the ‘Arab Spring’, Bashar al-Assad’s security forces used tanks and gunfire to crush the demonstrations. But it only stoked the fires.

The opposition developed into an armed insurgency, and now Syria has been engulfed in a civil war which has degenerated into a vicious sectarian conflict.

On one side are those who follow President Assad, who belongs to the Alawites — a splinter sect from Shia Islam.

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    • Hannah Michaels

      According to Bible Prophecy and the Bible Code, Syria is involved-

      Four Angels of the Euphrates: Syria, Iran, Turkey, Iraq:
      /prophecy/2013/01/four-angels-of-the-euphrates-syria-iran-turkey-iraq-2444504.html

      The Bible Code Unsealed The Book (Syria is encoded with the war as per Drosnin’s book):
      /prophecy/2013/04/the-bible-code-unsealed-the-book-2446642.html

    • Radiance

      The caption is enlightening – UK, France and US vs China and Russia.

      Nary a mention of Israel – the one nation that has kept this conflict escalating and the one who has the most to gain.

      Don’t fall for this – don’t let our boys die in a foreign war for nothing. Syria has never been a threat, is not now a threat and never will be a threat to the U.S. All this fighting, killing, dying – it’s a game to the power brokers. Don’t become a useless casualty or statistic.

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    • et Setera

      Don’t believe anything in the British MSM, the DM knows what it is allowed to say and even seemingly liberal leaning papers like the ‘Guardian’ are merely controlled opposition. This article is a perfect example of the disinformation we are fed 24/7, it is because so many here swallow it that successive governments have literally gotten away with murder – false flags like 7/7 at home, and illegal wars abroad.
      Syria was a peaceful and prosperous, sovereign secular country until our PTB took the opportunity to exacerbate a small faction of dissent there. They have armed, funded, and trained thousands of the so -called ‘rebels’ who are overwhelmingly non-Syrians. Before we intervened to massively destabilise the country, people of many ethnic groups, religions and even nationalities were proud to call themselves Syrians. It had been reported by the ‘Syrian Girl’ blogger that if you asked someone what their religion was, they would reply ‘we are Syrian’. Many people in Britain watched the BBC series ‘Syrian School’ a couple of years ago, and were impressed by the high educational standards and pleasant life style of the country. It was humbling to see how people there welcomed refugees from the wars we started, and now Syria is just another victim of our government’s power mania.

    • Scared Soldier

      Syria?
      Nope!
      The criminal Zionist elite? For sure, because it is what they have always done.

      The Titanic, originally the Olympia was the first modern 9/11.

    • Light_Prevails

      We are weeks away from PEACE IN SYRIA and now the administration wants to create MORE DEATHS by arming the Rebels?

      Assad has nearly completed his cleanup sweep of the Rebels. If they really wanted peace they would let him finish it up. Syria is a sovereign nation with a sovereign bank, strong national identity and tolerant of all religious practices. If nothing is done, we will have peace there in a matter of weeks. What could possibly be the motivation?

      • StormyB4

        Exactly…the big question is, will the Russians do the right thing and back Assad.

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