Top 10 Lessons To Learn After One Year Of The Syrian Revolution
English, Features — March 15, 2012 at 4:14 pm
by The Syrian Sun
9- Making our OWN statistics: We hear a lot of us saying: all people in Homs are asking for “No Fly Zone” And all people in Idlib are asking for military intervention. I am not saying they are not but when we are talking about sensitive issue as this, we must rely on good sources of information. Polls were never done in Syria to know what the citizens are asking for. And we always underestimate the numbers of people still supporting Al-Assad or the” silent sector” and we act as they don’t even exist.
6- Distrust and Exclusion: One of the major and most dangerous problems we have. Many issues have surfaced lately among many parties. Peace advocates and people calling to arm the FSA are one the major conflicts we have. Just because we don’t see things in the same prospective doesn’t mean we are enemies! I saw people dedicating YouTube videos of a massacre done by the regime to the peace activists!! They overlooked the killer and blamed the victim. At the same time I saw peace advocates attacking the FSA for many reasons and calling them killers and rebels. All the above mentioned is fine with me as long as we don’t exclude and distrust each other. Remember what we want is to be a unit; a unit that has the same goal which is overthrowing Bashar Al-Assad and establishing a democratic country.
4- Criticizing the revolution is not a crime: Or even criticizing the revolution icons and leaders. These are people just like us and they make mistakes, why can’t we point out these mistakes and try to correct them! Never let your emotions for the leader blind you from seeing his mistakes. The leader must be held accountable for mistakes he/she commits, even if those mistakes were reflected on people you do not like.
2- Sectarianism: Judging people and predicting their political stance according to their religion is really shameful. Recently we heard of a lot of calls to punish certain sector of the Syrian people because they are believed to be pro Assad, these calls are only the beginning of a civil war that only the regime can benefit from. We are all one no matter what.
http://syriansun.info/?p=605
Flies in the face of people who are labeling the protesters falsely - in fact #2 applies to those.
