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March 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda She says that a major reason for her participation in the protests was to do her bit to stop any slide into a sectarian war between factions of the Sunni Muslim majority, Alawites or Christians.
“Everyone was saying that salafist Sunnis were going to attack the Alawites,” she said. So, in Homs last November, “I, an Alawite woman, got up on the stage and declared that we were all united against the regime.”
Suleiman says that even before she publicly declared her opposition to Assad, she had for months been discreetly working with dissidents in Damascus and trying to persuade the Allawite-dominated cities Lattakia and Tartus to join the protest movement.
She stayed in Homs from November to January and then went back to Damascus, where she lived in hiding and put the fame she had garnered with her acting to the service of the revolution.
She organised humanitarian aid networks, used YouTube and Facebook to make appeals and denounce the regime’s brutal crackdown, and organised Alawite demonstrations.
Suleiman said it was during her time in Homs that she saw that Sunnis who had initially carried weapons only to defend themselves, were starting to use these arms to attack regime forces.
“It was then that I understood,” she said.
And that is why she is furious that those “who are arming the Syrian street are willing to do anything to take power in the same way that Bashar Al-Aaasad is ready to do anything to stay in power.”
“In the absence of a united opposition and of any real political proposals, and faced with an international community which is abandoning the Syrian people to the regime’s war machine, today they believe that the only way to make the regime fall is to take up arms,” she declared.
Suleiman said that in her own case, she had to get out of the country because she was being threatened all the time and her presence meant that other activists might get arrested.
“I was changing my hiding place all the time, I was changing my mobile phone, my Sim card, but each time the regime managed to locate me.
The area would be surrounded and searched. I was becoming a danger for others,” she said.
After she finally left Damascus, she had to cross on foot into Jordan – a country she says is “full of Syrian spies”, and from there, with the help of the French embassy, made her way to Paris.
But even in France she says she does not feel safe.
Source: AFP
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