Syria anti-Regime Protesters Demonstrate against Al-Nusra
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Anti-regime activists took to the streets of rebel-held Mayadeen in eastern Syria on Wednesday for a third straight day to demand that jihadist al-Nusra Front fighters leave the town, a watchdog said.
"For the third day in a row, protests erupted in Mayadeen calling on the al-Nusra Front to leave the town," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Protests erupted after the Islamist al-Nusra Front -- blacklisted in December by the United States as a "terrorist" organisation -- set up a religious council in the east of Deir Ezzor province, where Mayadeen is situated, to administer affairs in the area.
At the weekend they set up a religious police force in Mayadeen, the Britain-based Observatory said, adding that the force had held a parade in the town.
Amateur video distributed by the Observatory showed a large convoy of vehicles driving through the east of Syria, large swathes of which have fallen out of army control in the past few months.
Rebels held up black Islamic flags while driving down an unidentified road.
"The protests are an important indicator that people in eastern Syria -- where people do not have a culture of religious extremism -- do not welcome the imposition of religious law," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
"The fact is that fanaticism has little place in Syria as a whole, though the regime has tried hard to make the world believe that a successful revolt would put radical Islamists in power," he added.
A second amateur video distributed on Sunday by activists showed protesters, some of them on motorcycles, holding a night-time demonstration in Mayadeen.
"Protesters are calling on al-Nusra Front to leave al-Mayadeen!" said the unidentified cameraman filming the event.
13 March 2013, 20:12
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I agree fully of what you wrote, what puzzles me is how those prmitives got into Syria, what nationalities from, who is paying them and those who call themselves Arabs, their silence is extremly suspicious. Syria is the last tolerence religion in the Arabs Dark World, what amazes me most is that the West knows all about this and the consequences ifthose primivies take over, yet they are doing nothing to stop it.
13 March 2013, 22:32
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Josh you are an indiscriminate Sunni hater. You cannot think that way and deny that there are moderate Sunnis in Lebanon and in Syria that refuses extremism. You cannot for the sake of your political beliefs deny the Syrian people their fight for a just cause ie justice and liberty. No one can deny either that there are extremists who are taking advantages is situation in syria to grow and become stronger.
13 March 2013, 23:14
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Josh you are an indiscriminate Sunni hater. You cannot think that way and deny that there are moderate Sunnis in Lebanon and in Syria that refuses extremism. You cannot for the sake of your political beliefs deny the Syrian people their fight for a just cause ie justice and liberty. No one can deny either that there are extremists who are taking advantages is situation in syria to grow and become stronger.
13 March 2013, 23:45
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that's the way forward for the FRee Syrian People. Dont' let them hijack YOUR revolucion! God bless you and protect you from the enemies of democracy. Bashar and Nusra
14 March 2013, 00:41
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If these people want to get rid of Al Nusra they need to support the syrian army and if they want to have a say in the leadership of their country they need to participate in a political process which like it or not will have to include the current government.
14 March 2013, 02:41
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Karim_m1: people like you have long lost any shred of credibility because of comments like this one.
14 March 2013, 03:37
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I would like to hope the peace in Syria honestly. Once I read article, in Deir ezZor, the local people set the ballot box to elect local leaders. Even asked FSA not to join the election to avoid confusion. I am so amazed at the valiant citizen's standing to confront with the terrorists and possible dangers of factors but they have opposion of political opinion to call democracy. You must directly write a letter to some UN body how the citizen don't want terrorists in your cities and town as well as you may feel alternative approach to combat with these fierce and lethal problem to "life".
14 March 2013, 04:35
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The Majority of the Syrians did not sacrifice and die to replace a mundane dictatorship with a "Divine" one.
Al nusra and other extremists will be rejected in many places.
