Assad forms new militia with Shiite flavor

Translation by Dani Murad

(Zaman Alwasl)- One of the tactics used by Bashar al-Assad against the Syrian revolution is to increase estrangement between the Syrian people using purely sectarian motives, by deepening the feeling of “them” and “us”, a reminder of the destruction of the Syrian persona.

In this context, a new militia formed by the Assad’s regime has emerged under the name “The Ideological National Resistance”, and despite not being publically announced, yet a video that contains fight scenes with sectarian songs in a military field, revealed some of the faces of this militia.

The anthem starts with a reference to the “Ard Al Taf” where Hussein was killed, (may Allah be pleased with him), and "Khyber" where Prophet Mohammed, (peace be upon him) defeated a group of Jews, and in addition to that, the video shows some fighters chanting phrases, such as "Labayk ya Ali" and "Labayk ya Hussain".

Then the sectarian tone rises in this group’s anthem to reach as far as saying: "revolution became remains, and the Umayyad dream is destroyed!” As well as preaching that "Alawite Glory has come."

and with all these phrases that resort to names of influential figures, who have high symbolism in the mind and conscience of every Muslim, this anthem with no shame glorifies Bashar al-Assad as a "lion of our nation," assuring him that “he is the leader and will never lose”.

In a related context, Zaman Alwasl has been informed that the branch of this militia in Masyaf, Hama, has lost its first member “Munzer Muhammed”, one of the town’s sons, right after the formation of this militia, and was killed in Khattab town.

Moreover, the “National Ideological Resistance” inspires its slogan from the militia of Hezbollah, adopting the same yellow color as the background, but with some slight differences, since it contains a combination of figures’ images, starting from Saleh Ali to Bashar, Khomeini , Hafez , Nasrallah and Khamenei!

For them, Hafez al-Assad is considered a “saint”, raising him to the ranks of Sahaba “companions”, and always mentioning his name with the phrase "God blesses him!"

Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, the regime has been eagerly working on agitating a sectarian strife, attracting more people from abroad, whenever it has a shortage in numbers caused by the mounting numbers of dead in his troops, and thus it used sectarianism to be supported militarily, logistically and diplomatically, from other countries.

And believing falsely that the war in Syria is an epic war for the Shiite Sect and its shrines, thousands of Shiite have been flocking to Syria from all over the word, coming mainly from Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Iraq to fight alongside Assad forces; fully supported from the main player “Iran”, which considers itself the leader of the Shiite world.