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Anarchists vs. ISIS: The Revolution in Syria Nobody’s Talking About

 

The Middle East today is the last place anyone in mainstream western thought would think to look for progressive political thought, and even less to see those thoughts translated into action. Our image of the region is one of dictatorships, military juntas and theocracies built on the ruins of the former Ottoman Empire, or hollow states like Afghanistan, and increasingly Pakistan, where anything outside the capitol is like Mad Max. The idea of part of the region being not just free, but well on its way to utopian, isn’t one that you’re going to find on mainstream media.

 

But you’re not on the mainstream media right now, are you?

 

Along Syria’s borders with Turkey and Northern Iraq, lies a mainly Kurdish area with a population of 4.6 million where a huge social experiment is taking place at the centre of a crossfire between Syria’s dictatorship, ISIS’s collective insanity and Turkey’s ongoing hostility towards the idea of Kurdish autonomy, with the US and NATO looming large in the background. The Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Kurdish National Council (KNC) established in the region of Rojava a society that mixes fierce libertarianism (guns are everywhere and there are no taxes – none) and Occupy-friendly anarchist thought with a healthy dose of feminism. While most Kurdish groups, especially those the US is friendly with, would some day like to establish a Kurdish state, in Rojava they have leap-frogged over the idea of the nation state into a more advanced system that they call Democratic Confederalism.

 

In the cantons of Rojava, there is a small central government with an absolute minimum of 40% female delegates, but most of the day-to-day work of running society happens at a local level, street by street and village by village. Democratic Confederalism’s chief architect, Abdullah Ocalan, says that “Ecology and feminism are central pillars” of the system he has spearheaded, something that you would have to go very far to the margins to hear from Western politicians. This is similar to how trading forex works such as forex trading from Australia from Australian forex trading websites or forex online trading from usa work.. In Rojava, men who beat their wives face total ostracism from the community, making their lives in a highly social, connected society virtually impossible. Instead of a police force and jails, ‘peace committees’ in each municipality work to defuse the cycles of inter-family revenge killings by consensual agreements between both sides – and it works.

 

The only part of Rojava’s experiment that has received any international attention has been the YPJ, the female-only paramilitary forces that have been fighting, and winning, against ISIS and the Syrian Army. NBC, the Guardian and even Marie Claire have all covered the YPJ’s bravery without even paying lip service to the ideology that makes it possible.

 

It was the YPJ, along with their male counterparts the YPG, that rescued the thousands of Yazidis stranded and encircled by ISIS on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq. The Yazidi community had the misfortune to be based almost entirely inside the area that ISIS has claimed – and they have been a hated minority in the Islamic world for a thousand years, accused of ‘devil worship’. While the US dropped supplies from above, the Syrian fighting groups broke ISIS’s lines and saved tens of thousands of lives. They also successfully defended the city of Kobani when ISIS launched an all-out assault on the city of forty-five thousand with tanks, missiles and even drones. Despite heavy losses, the city remains ISIS-free, though its surrounding villages are still contested.

 

The YPJ/G and the the Democratic Society Movement that they fight for aren’t perfect: they have been accused of using child soldiers (girls as young as twelve serve as cooks and cleaners for the YPJ and undergo some basic combat training, though they aren’t deployed in combat) and they are forever tainted by their association with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), led by Abdullah Ocalan and classified as a terrorist organization by most nations. The formerly Marxist-Leninist party also has some murky connections to the drug trade and Turkish intelligence.

 

Despite all the obstacles facing them, the people of Rojava are, right now, the only large-scale movement on the entire planet implementing a real, working alternative to the state and capitalism. Like the Spanish anarchist federations and the Mexican Zapatistas before them, the people of Rojava have chosen to do the impossible: to create a new society while fighting as one of the smallest forces in a regional war, a tight-rope walk through a dodge-ball court. Only time will tell if they can pull it off.

http://www.cvltnation.com/anarchists-vs-isis-the-revolution-in-syria-nobodys-talking-about/

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They are united by the fact that anybody not white in the US is treated like shite on a shoe.

 

Yeah, the President himself often tells of how his Secret Service guys leave burning paper bags full of shit on the White House porch.

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Yeah, the President himself often tells of how his Secret Service guys leave burning paper bags full of shit on the White House porch.

The President is a puppet,whatever his skin colour is.

He is still capable of ordering drone strikes on schools and villages in the Middle East also.

 

 

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I meant to post this a while ago.

 

After some Islamist anti-Semitic cunt had murdered a guard at a synagogue in Copenhagen, there was the completely predictable escalation in tensions, with gobshites of all sides stirring it up.

 

  In Oslo, a group of young Muslims said "fuck that shit" and decided to throw a protective ring around their local synagogue.

http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/news/world/article/2412/breaking-news-muslims-to-protect-oslo-synagogue

"If the Jihadists want to use violence in the name of Islam, they must go through us Muslims first," said one of the event's initiators.

Islam is to protect our brothers and sisters, regardless of which religion they belong to.

Islam is to rise above hate and never sink at the same level as the haters. Islam is to defend each other.

Muslims want to show that we deeply despise all types hatred of Jews, and that we are there to support them.

http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/news/world/article/2414/allah-hu-akbar-cried-the-rebbe

“YOU MUST SAY to the young Muslims in Norway that they have given me hope. They have given me a reason to continue living. Maybe it was a meaning to my son’s death. Maybe it gives reason to life for the future. This message goes to all the world, it is not just here in Norway, it is a universal message,” said Oslo’s chief rabbi, Michael Melchior, quoting the father of murdered Danish synagogue security guard, Dan Uzan. from the steps of Oslo’s synagogue.

Outside the synagogue, a human chain of young Muslims stood guard, stating that if the terrorists want to get to the Jews, they would have to get through the Muslims of Norway first.

Outside this ring of peace, the street was filled with cheering people of all faiths and none, 1,400 showing up to demonstrate their solidarity on a dark and cold Saturday evening.

This mighty show of solidarity came after a very heated debate in which representatives of the governing Progress Party have made one outrageous statement after another, including accusing the Christian Democrats of being responsible for young Norwegians joining the Islamic State and comparing the murderous actions of Boko Haram and ISIL with bishop Tor B. Jørgensen’s views on the need for taxes to finance the state.

Former conservative PM Kåre Willoch has been accused of antisemitism and former head of the Progress Party, Carl I. Hagen has repeated the stale conspiracy theory of the Islamisation-by- stealth of Norway.

In this political climate – and in a society burdened with growing fears of Islamist terrorism – nine young Muslims used social media to set up the ring of peace outside the synagogue.

Being verbally attacked by counter-Jihadists, nazis, and extreme pro-Israeli groups even before the demonstration, it was obvious that the initiative had struck a raw nerve.

Already an hour before the event got underway, the normally quiet street in a mainly residential area started to fill up, supervised by a heavy police presence.

Behind Melchior stood the Jewish congregation celebrating the Havdalah ceremony in open air, in a powerful display of trust in their young Muslim protectors.

On a street corner were young people from the multicultural hunters and anglers association, Wild X, with lots of helpers serving hot lentil soup and coffee to those attending the demonstration as well as to the present police officers.

Swarming around the synagogue were journalists from all over the world, broadcasting this unique demonstration of Muslim-Jewish solidarity.

One of the organisers was 17-years- old Hajrah Arshad. “We are not here to apologise for the terror”, she stated from the stage, “we are here to stand together with you.”

Ali Chishti delivered the bravest speech. Five years ago, he gained notoriety in Norway after a hate- filled, antisemitic speech he had made at a public meeting. Outside the synagogue, he now stood, still with his Palestinian scarf around his neck, and made a moving public self-criticism in front of the Jewish community. “I was young, I was angry and I made a hate- filled speech based on conspiracy theories”, he said before goingon to list historic examples of Muslim-Jewish unity and peaceful co-existence.

Rabbi Melchior spoke about how non-believers had encircled the prophet Mohammed to protect his life and told the young Muslims that what they did was rooted deeply in Islam. “The ring you are forming now is the same ring as made by those who protected the Prophet. By forming this ring of love, of solidarity, you have broken another circle, a circle of fear, of hatred, of murder.”

Allah hu akbar – God is great”, cried the rabbi to a mesmerised audience. “Our common God is everywhere, but most of all he is present where people build bridges, where people form circles, that is where God wants to be.”

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Not really an Islamic Positive story - just a Non-Islamic Negative one.

 

Morons in Durham showing Trump levels of mental ability.

 

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14147037.Police_called_to_Muslims_praying_near_Stanley_school/

 

The comments section is, as ever, mindblowing.

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Not really an Islamic Positive story - just a Non-Islamic Negative one.

 

Morons in Durham showing Trump levels of mental ability.

 

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14147037.Police_called_to_Muslims_praying_near_Stanley_school/

 

The comments section is, as ever, mindblowing.

In other news scientists revealed that birds can fly!

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Not sure if this goes in here, but I've just heard some Muslim extremist lad on the radio saying that he wants Britain to be run by sharia law as he wants to live in a country who obey these rules. The presenter then pointed out that many countries are already under sharia law, so why doesn't he move to one of them. He then said that he wants to share how beautiful it is with his non Muslim brothers. I thought, "that's nice of him. So thoughtful."

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