Assad Vows to 'Cleanse' Syria after Attack
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Syria's President Bashar Assad on Friday condemned a deadly attack on a mosque that killed more than 40 people including a top pro-regime cleric, vowing that Syria would be "cleansed" of extremism.
"I present my condolences to the Syrian people for the martyrdom of Sheikh Mohamed Saeed al-Bouti, a great figure in Syria and the Islamic world," he said in a statement issued by the presidency overnight.
"Those who killed you think they are silencing the voice of Islam and belief in the Syrian nation... they killed you for raising your voice against their ignorant and obscurantist ideas which are intended to destroy the principles of our tolerant religion," the statement added.
"I swear to the Syrian people that your blood, and that of your grandson and all the martyrs of the homeland, will not be spilled in vain because we will be faithful to your ideas by destroying their extremism and ignorance until we have cleansed the country," Assad said.
His statement came after state media reported that a suicide bomber had blown himself up in the Iman Mosque in the central Damascus district of Mazraa.
On Friday, state news agency SANA said the toll had risen to 49, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog putting the number of dead at 46.
Bouti was Syria's most prominent pro-regime Sunni cleric, and his weekly sermons were frequently broadcast on Syrian television. He called on Syrians to join the army to fight the uprising against the regime and was reviled by the opposition.
22 March 2013, 11:27
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Ya Haram,
This is an abomination, these barbaric brain washed people are the opposite of Islam.
22 March 2013, 11:39
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Suicide bomber destroys a mosque?
More proof that the takfiris are taking over in Syria ...
22 March 2013, 12:07
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I believe that a suicide bomber blew himself up in that mosque killing dozens including Sheikh Mohamed Saeed al-Bouti.
I believe that that suicide bomber was a Salafist as only Salafists are known to use suicide bombers ...
This has nothing to do with Assad ... this is terrorism by foreign jihadists supported by the GCC pure and simple.
22 March 2013, 11:49
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Our religion?????? Since when is islam your religion ya bashar? You are a alawi, according to your religion ali (ra) was divine which according to islam is blashphemy. Your religion is shiaism of which alawism is an offshot. You have nothing to do with islam. Other than that, you are a secularist, to be a muslim leader one has to rule with the law of Allah swt, not secularism. Allah swt said in the quran that those who desire a law other than his are kafiroon. So dont say our religion you murderer and commandor of rapists. And if albouti was trying to whitewash your crimes and legalizing your kufr, shirk and bid3a then he did not die a martyr. He died as a protector of taghoot, not islam.
22 March 2013, 18:00
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FlameThrower, to you, every muslim who refuses to change islam to please you is an extremist. Your opinion means nothing. Just continue living with your hate for muslims and islam (yes i know u will say you only hate wahhabis but the truth is clear for everyone with eyes). Your reply is so unoriginal, you sound like a broken record. Islam is about what Allah and his prophet said, not you, nor alawis nor secularists or anyone else. You would even brand christ an extremist if he was on earth.
22 March 2013, 18:05
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Accordoonman, FYI, I am not salafi and i consider such attacks against civilians to be 100 % wrong because they are haram. But that doesnt mean i will support taghoot coming from a murderer like bashar and it doesnt mean that islam is a carte blance for everyone to claim they are part of when they have a diffirent religion. In the quran, Allah condemns what alawism stands for and it is not wrong to say it rather its a duty for muslims to set things straight when liars claim their lies are islam. Whether its from those who murder civilians in the name of islam or those who murder civilians in the name of bashar or anyone else.
22 March 2013, 11:52
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You guys would even call the prophets takfiris. Killing non-fighting people is a huge sin comitted by beasts, but you guys will call anyone who stands up for true islam which exists in the quran "takfiris". In order to not be a takfiri one cant be a real muslim (as per the quran and not the secularists and sects operating under the disguise of islam) according to you guys.
22 March 2013, 13:55
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Yorgo stop beleiving everything that your masters tell you
If you truly beleive in Islam, no matter what and who tells you to blow up a bomb in your place of worship, thats what you call ignorance and,If you say Bashar did it, than how come his people didn't do it in rebel held terretory, instead did it in the Heart of his Capital city.
Think about it for a minute
22 March 2013, 18:13
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Rest assured, that God who has no son nor partner, will NEVER be on the side of the opressor whether he comes in the form of bashar or anyone else. God is with those who obey him, not those who make their own religion, who murder, rape and destroy just to proove a point. Neither bashar nor the filthy hypocrites from KSA, qatar etc will win this war nor will either of them have the support of God as God never supports such men. They will iflict harm on each other and at the end they will both come out losers when the righteous take the leadership and restores Gods law to the land.
22 March 2013, 18:16
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Moderate islam is to follow the quran, to you moderate islam is to not follow the quran. Basicly, a moderate muslim to you is the muslim who does not follow his religion.
