READER COMMENTS

It is not necessary for the Syrian opposition factions to merge into a single entity. It is necessary to respect the political pluralism, but all the major intellectual and political current should cooperate and coordinate their stance through a unified council to lead the revolution. This council should be the umbrella under which all the activities and revolutionary groups would gather. The points of agreement between the opposition facts are much greater than the points and the national duty requires all the leaders of the opposition to be up to the sacrifices of the Syrian people. They should never start fighting each other and should instead be unifying their efforts. The more they are unified, the stronger they would be and they may be able to attract the support of the international community financially, politically and militarily.

No other people could afford to bear the torment, torture and destruction but the Syrians. They had no alternative but to seek refuge in neighboring countries. They want to protect themselves, their children and their women against the crimes of the Army of Bashar al-Assad. They asked for protection. As Arabs, we should give them a helping hand before they have to leave their country, their homes and their lands. The Arabs must intervene immediately to end up this crisis and reach a quick agreement with Bashar al-Assad. This man must step down from power in order to enable the Syrian people to live peacefully in their country. Indeed, the Syrians should not abandon Syria to the corrupt and dissolved regime. This does not mean that we should not protect them when they ask for political asylum in the neighboring countries. Everyone knows quite well the important role of Saudi Arabia and its support for the Syrian people through huge sums of money. May Allah grant them the greatest rewards! In addition, many Syrian refugees sought asylum in Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. In fact, the latter is going through a severe economic crisis. It could not bear more burdens!

I call on all the concerned officials in the Arab world to make every effort to protect the Syrian people from the crimes of their president against them. In fact, everyone is watching on TV the extent of Syrians’ suffering from Bashar Assad every day. Therefore, I would like to call for the necessity of cooperation between countries in order to save Syrians from destruction and suffering.

The crimes of Bashar are uncountable, regardless of the last incidents, in which Bashar became famous for being a criminal because of what he did against Syria and the Syrians by using the Syrian army against them. We want to make his crimes before the revolution clear, which because of them the Syrians are protesting against him and against his corrupt and unjust rule. For many years under the rule of Bashar, Syria has become full of corruption. Destruction and ruin increase day after day. Corruption has many different forms and types, for example, the first type of corruption and favoritism has started on the first day of Bashar’s and his first crime is the way he got the throne that no one should get except the heroes and not the villains like Bashar. In one day he issued a law that gave him the right to be the president; he formulated this law and signed by the Syrian Parliament and the Syrians woke up to find Bashar the president without entitlement to that except this law that he accepted for his sake. He became through patronage and nepotism, so how he can be just among people?

We have to save the Syrians from Bashar's regime which practices killing, bloodshed, terrorism, and oppression against the courageous and secured Syrian people. Saving the Syrians is an international Arab responsibility against injustice and oppression. The world is unjust when it cares for sub-issues and ignores important ones like killing, displacement, and bloodshed. The international and Arab silence towards treachery, oppression, injustice, and violation of human rights as well as the destruction, massacres, and humiliation is a bad thing. What is happening in Syria calls for pain and the feeling of oppression. We have to stand against what is happening in Syria; we must not stand silent. Where are the world's conscience, the human rights, mercy, and humanity? All the jurists all over the world feel oppression and all people who are sensitive towards humanity have psychological torture. We have to stand against the killing of innocent people. The issue is not simple and we should not underestimate it because it is very sensitive and dangerous. Killing a human being is a very big crime. Killing people without any reaction from the world, the United Nations, and the Security Council is a reason for the deteriorating situation in Syria because they do not take strict measures to stop the violence in Syria. They left Bashar, the killer and the tyrant, to kill people undeterred. The world stands helpless in front of the tyranny and oppression of Bashar, the oppressor, the killer and the immoral. We are waiting for the mercy of God upon the Syrians.