Lord have mercy. I know some shia sects are like 4-5 steps away from mainline islam/sunni but a ossuary/shrine/hall of heroes on the second floor of a consulate is crazy.
Gunna press X on this one. Even the non-Abrahamic Middle Eastern faiths are particularly meticulous about human corpses - look at the Zoroastrians. Would make zero sense to ever put something like this in a consulate - it's obviously something you'd want to hide in that culture. Is there any actual reporting on this, because I'm genuinely intrigued as to what this is. I'm interested in odd Middle Eastern religions in general and as far as I know Shia follow typical Muslim burial rites which are very vanilla. The ones in bags almost make it look like some sort of excavation/moving a graveyard. Then again its so quick and blurry they might not even be human bones.
A pejorative for Shiites is Ghulat- exaggerators, because they're stereotyped as believing in weird mystic bullshit because as a persecuted marginalized often underground group they develop strange habits, best historic example of this would be the Qarmatians and their black stone shenanigans. The closest Christian equivalent is the Santa Muerte kind of stuff.
That looks like a Hezbollah flag wrapped around what appears to be a coffin which means it's a saint tomb, which is one of those Ghulat practises that Sufis engage in, if I had to guess some local bigwig got his ass capped and his minions started venerating as they often do.
Violent clashes between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Syrian Arab Army in Braideej, Hama direction, just south of Kernaz.
Rumours have been spreading of a leaked Telegram chat between members of those moderate rebels, the Syrian Opposition (HTS), where they discuss the beheading of a bishop in Aleppo. Very cool Moshe I mean Mohamed.
"This Armenian dog"
"inshallah his head gets cut"
"Focus on dua for the mujahidin and don't go outside the order of the sheikh"
"Before cutting his head off you need to burn his mustache ear then throw him in the trash. He acts like he can practice his own religion"
"Moderate Syrian rebels" tie up a family, hold them as captives and insult them by referring to them as "dogs".
Moderate rebels and woman respectors: The captivity of Kurdish women fighters by Erdogan's terrorists, apologies, moderate, non-Arab freedom fighters.
Wonder what ISIS sex slave market they'll be sold at.
Russian SU-34 blast away at terrorist sorry, moderate positions in Idlib
as joint Russian-Syrian airstrikes clear out territory of militants.
The evil Christian protectors, the Syrian Army, took full control over Karnaz town, Northwestern Hama region while killing dozens of jihadi mercenaries, sorry, moderate rebels while also capturing Tal Malah, Al-Jalameh, Al-Jabbin, Hayalin and Sheikh Hadid towns from their control.
No. You are witnessing the West's next generation asymmetrical warfare which consists of innuendo, rumor, halt truths, outright lying and AI generated visuals to give the appearance of victory and popular support to fool the masses. You can trust but need to verify sources because there are no reporters, MSM or otherwise, in this very new, very active and extremely dangerous war zone.
A pejorative for Shiites is Ghulat- exaggerators, because they're stereotyped as believing in weird mystic bullshit because as a persecuted marginalized often underground group they develop strange habits, best historic example of this would be the Qarmatians and their black stone shenanigans. The closest Christian equivalent is the Santa Muerte kind of stuff.
That looks like a Hezbollah flag wrapped around what appears to be a coffin which means it's a saint tomb, which is one of those Ghulat practises that Sufis engage in, if I had to guess some local bigwig got his ass capped and his minions started venerating as they often do.
Qarmatians just stole the Black Stone from Mecca after attacking the Hajj- all Muslims venerate it out of historical respect, as Muhammad did so. They had odd beliefs about the Mahdi and were almost 'excommunicated' at one point iirc - that was the biggest issue.
Looking at the video a lot of things don't add up. I can't find examples of Shia sects cremating anyone, as it's generally forbidden in Islam. There are a LOT of bones, and some seem to hanging from a ceiling almost with labels. I can find zero examples of there ever being a Shia ossuary anywhere. It just seems like a bunch of people were exhumed, and the ones hanging from the ceiling look like they're being catalogued in some way. I know that Salafists in general desecrate Islamic gravesites (look at what the Saudis did to the graves at Al-Baqi), and this has happened to Shia holy sites in Syria during the last civil conflict. If I had to guess they exhumed holy sites that would have fallen behind enemy lines and moved them somewhere temporary. Maybe I'm wrong, but I can find quite literally zero evidence of any Shia sect ever doing something like this as a permanent shrine.
General Suheil al-Hassan was appointed commander-in-chief of the Syrian army's military operation in the north of the country to repel the militant offensive, and was also returned to the post of commander of the 25th special forces division of the Tiger Forces , Syrian sources write.
Previously, Suhel had commanded the Tiger Forces for a long time during the active counteroffensive of the Syrian government with the support of the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Wagner PMC, but in April 2024, the general resigned his post and began to command the newly created Special Operations Forces .
Suhel Al-Hassan is one of the few experienced operational commanders of the Syrian army, who also has good connections and long-standing relations with the Russian command, so his return back to the 25th division, effectively with a forced demotion, speaks volumes - now more than ever Syria needs competent field commanders, so to speak, "on the ground."
Qarmatians just stole the Black Stone from Mecca after attacking the Hajj- all Muslims venerate it out of historical respect, as Muhammad did so. They had odd beliefs about the Mahdi and were almost 'excommunicated' at one point iirc - that was the biggest issue.
Looking at the video a lot of things don't add up. I can't find examples of Shia sects cremating anyone, as it's generally forbidden in Islam. There are a LOT of bones, and some seem to hanging from a ceiling almost with labels. I can find zero examples of there ever being a Shia ossuary anywhere. It just seems like a bunch of people were exhumed, and the ones hanging from the ceiling look like they're being catalogued in some way. I know that Salafists in general desecrate Islamic gravesites (look at what the Saudis did to the graves at Al-Baqi), and this has happened to Shia holy sites in Syria during the last civil conflict. If I had to guess they exhumed holy sites that would have fallen behind enemy lines and moved them somewhere temporary. Maybe I'm wrong, but I can find quite literally zero evidence of any Shia sect ever doing something like this as a permanent shrine.
Its pure coincidence that a bunch of mostly Salafis or Takfiris, with a big conflict of interest against the Shia/Iran and funded by Turkish and Qatari and Saudi and Obiden Money, and have Israeli moral support, found something to make the eternal Shia look bad lol.
There was about almost two decades in the deserts of Iraq for the British and US military, and nothing of this sort was found during the GWOT.
Qarmatians just stole the Black Stone from Mecca after attacking the Hajj- all Muslims venerate it out of historical respect, as Muhammad did so. They had odd beliefs about the Mahdi and were almost 'excommunicated' at one point iirc - that was the biggest issue.
They massacred pilgrim caravans and filled the sacred wells with their corpses, they shat on the holy space rock when they couldn't smash it, they may or may not have been fire worshiping crypto-zoroastrians all along because of all the weird practices they picked up. Nevermind being almost excommunicated at one point they were considered proto-antichristian for their depredations but I digress this about about Twelver silliness not Ismaili autism.
Looking at the video a lot of things don't add up. I can't find examples of Shia sects cremating anyone, as it's generally forbidden in Islam. There are a LOT of bones, and some seem to hanging from a ceiling almost with labels. I can find zero examples of there ever being a Shia ossuary anywhere. It just seems like a bunch of people were exhumed, and the ones hanging from the ceiling look like they're being catalogued in some way. I know that Salafists in general desecrate Islamic gravesites (look at what the Saudis did to the graves at Al-Baqi), and this has happened to Shia holy sites in Syria during the last civil conflict. If I had to guess they exhumed holy sites that would have fallen behind enemy lines and moved them somewhere temporary. Maybe I'm wrong, but I can find quite literally zero evidence of any Shia sect ever doing something like this as a permanent shrine.
They found the martyr morgue I reckon.
It's 100% a dead durka storage, probably of religious and political significance and given that Twelver durkas are known for corpse venerating (case in point; the entirely of Qom/Mashad) my baseless speculation is that they were keeping the dead there probably as a temporary measure for future entombment and it just developed from there.
The ossuary stuff is strange though, but like I said Shias are notorious for their weird heterodox practices it would not shock me in the least if the bone-hanging shit is just a local sect thing.
Freedom fighters find regime bases decked out in foreign merch.
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Meanwhile Russian aircraft bomb hospitals and schools to show the Syrian population how much better their life is under Assad. Refugees are already returning to their homes in liberated territories, despite the regime's terror bombing and the danger presented by mines.
What is the legitimacy of a government that only survives due to foreign militants murdering its own citizens on its behalf?