Recent media coverage would have us believe Syria is
now flooded with foreign extremists. On the ground, Toby Muse finds something
quite different.
…
One
activist said: “The world doesn’t help us, and then tells us we are all jihadis
because some extremists come to help us. We would do a deal with the devil now
to fight this government.”
The
foreign extremists are a minority and their influence is limited - for the time
being. But the longer this conflict rages, the deeper the despair of hospitals
filled with dead children, the more the Syrians might just listen to the
extremists.