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News & Current Events Apr 1, 2026 at 4:43 PM

Syria’s minorities question German, British silence on sectarian violence during Sharaa’s visit

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Syria’s minorities question German, British silence on sectarian violence | The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
Syria’s minorities question German, British silence on sectarian violence | The Jerusalem Post
Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, was welcomed in Berlin on Monday, where he met with Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

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Nowayisthatway Apr 1, 2026 +20
With all due respect the massacres against the kurds sponcored by Turkey and commited by the Syrian goverment is seriously one of the least talked about things. What a shame
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rocketfucker9000 Apr 1, 2026 +4
What massacre ? All ex-SDF officials that I follow aren't talking about any killings. They all seem pretty happy currently because the government is actually following through with the deal and not betraying it. Last time I checked, there was some tension because someone took down a Syrian flag and then some Arabs took down Kurdish flags in retaliation and beat up their own police.
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Nowayisthatway Apr 1, 2026 +2
When Rojava was wad conquered by the HTS they killed a bunch of kurds, and a few months after that massacred a bunch of Druze (although I don't remember if it was after rojava or before it was conquered it did happen in the summer of ladt year) in the Jabal al druze area. Thats why recently there were news of ISIS members jail breaking from syria. The kurds were the ones who managed that.
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rocketfucker9000 Apr 1, 2026 +6
Bro, you need to actually learn about Syria, you sound really ignorant, I don't want to be mean or anything. First, HTS doesn't really exist anymore, the Syrian army is composed of a lot of former rebels but all of the individual groups have dissolved and were slowly spread out. HTS was actually a really small minority (a few thousand men), most of the current Syrian army is composed of former SNA ex-jihadists (that were supported by Turkey) and new recruits (mostly Sunni Arabs). The "Rojava" was populated by a large majority of Arabs and was conquered in like a week because almost all of the Arab fighters of the SDF switched side. There wasn't a lot of casualties among the civilian population, even among Kurdish fighters. Weirdly, the only mass killing that happened in the region was a random SDF soldier killing a group of Arab prisoners. A few Kurdish civilians were killed in indiscriminate shellings. The Syrian army never entered Kurdish majority areas in fear of further mass killings like on the coast. Instead, a deal was reached with Kurdish authorities for a peaceful integration. That deal is currently being implemented under US/European surpervision and things are actually going well for now. You can follow Kurdish officials on X, if bad things happen, they will be the first to talk about it. The mass killings against Alawites and Druzes happened before all of that. International and Syrian investigations don't put the blame directly on al-Sharaa but on ex-SNA commanders that are/were part of the Syrian army. It was sectarian (coming from the populace) rather than ordered by the governement who prevented further mass killings since then. There wasn't enough justice tho, but the current Syrian governement isn't even seeking justice against pro-Assad criminals (only the most famous ones). The US (even Israel behind the scene) and the EU aren't talking with al-Sharaa because they like the man, they're talking with him because he's the "best" thing Syria has right now despite his past and if we were to remove him from power, both the Alawite and Druze populations would disappear in a few weeks because the Sunni Arabs of Syria hates them for religious and political reasons (Assad was an Alawite, Druzes are seen as heathens).
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meedmishmohd Apr 1, 2026 +5
don't forget what the regime and iran did to syrians, syrians haven't forgot.
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Primary-Debate-549 Apr 1, 2026 +5
This is the sad part. We saw this before, most dramatically in Afghanistan. Islamists ... don't kill many people. They kill, very publicly, very dramatically, but not much. It is just about the one positive about them. Afghan communists killed more people in peacetime in Afghanistan, before the invasion, than the Taliban killed in 3 wars plus everything that happened in between. Obviously everyone still wants better government than islamists.
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Ultra_Metal Apr 1, 2026 +2
European leaders love to look the other way when Islamic extremists carry out atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Then they pretend to be outraged when any democracy defends itself against Islamic extremist terrorism and war crimes. Europe has terrible leaders who appease tyrants and terrorists.
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Confident-Raisin5882 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Found the Israeli lol. Both can be bad, Terrorist regimes and “Democracies” that butcher people, one in the same
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meedmishmohd Apr 1, 2026 +4
minorities in Germany, UK also have questions about violence.
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UltraBakait Apr 1, 2026 -1
Whatever happens to minorities in Syria, jihad-loving governments in nations like germany and britain are complicit in it.
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rocketfucker9000 Apr 1, 2026 -4
Are Trump and Netanyahu jihadist supporters ?
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Royal-Hunter3892 Apr 1, 2026 -2
"He may be a son of a bit@h , but he is our son of a bit@h - USA.
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