‘Syria reform should be peaceful, steady’

Press TV has conducted an interview with the founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance, Kevin Barrett, to further discuss the issue.

The program also provides the opinions of two additional guests; author and historian Webster Griffin Tarpley and Haitham Alsibahie, member of the Syrian Social Club.

The following is a rough transcript of the interview.

Press TV: Dr. Barrett, until recently when the armed groups did attack government targets and planted bombs according to the Syrian regime mainstream media would accuse the government itself of being behind these attacks and rejected any responsibility by the armed groups.

But this has changed since a few days ago for example news outlets reported that armed opposition groups were responsible for the attacks on Tuesday to kill several people. Do you think there is a reason for this change?

Barrett: That’s a very good question. It’s another example of people like [another speaker on the show] Webster Tarpley being far far ahead of the mainstream media.

He was actually there in Syria, reporting that these groups were attacking civilians and committing terrorism, basically firing on people from roof tops and so on and that’s a whole situation which was being misreported by the mainstream media and by Al Jazeera and so on.

So I think it may be a case of the mainstream media finally being caught up with by reality. That is at some point they’re overtaken by reality and they can’t try to report it as if only one side is doing all the fighting when in fact it’s the other side that is the instigator of the armed clashes.

So I’m glad to see that the media is finally reporting the fact that there are these terrorists destabilizing Syria. They’re on a mission from NATO and from the US and as Webster said, they’re probably as a sort of outgrowth of what happened in Iraq under Negroponte.

But I don’t expect that the mainstream media is going to fill in the details and see the kind of picture that would allow people to actually understand what’s going on.

We do have to add that I think that the civilians desiring reform in Syria are perhaps the more significant factor than Webster Tarpley has said. I think that there is a need for democratic reform in Syria; it needs to be peaceful; it needs to be gradual; it needs to be done in cooperation with the current government not by kind of overthrowing the government through blood and mayhem which is the destabilization strategy that is being deployed by the US and NATO.

Press TV: Dr. Barrett, will the truce hold for any longer looking at the situation we are at right now and what’s going to happen if it doesn’t? Now the West has called this the last effort to prevent Syria from falling into civil war. Is Syria going to collapse into civil war?

Barrett: I hope not but I honestly think that’s probably what Western powers that are acting there want. This is part of a larger strategy to destroy the Islamic world by fostering sectarian tensions and destabilizing… September 11 2001 when this war on Islam went into high gear.

And unfortunately many of the world’s Muslims are playing along with this. It’s really unfortunate that groups like the Muslim Brotherhood which has an honorable history in some areas at least have fallen into this trap of these sectarian destabilization operations we’ve seen it in Libya, we’ve seen it in Iraq and now we’re seeing it in Syria.

At this point it’s just really sad to see the way that Western powers claim to be after peace and human rights when in fact, they’re operating in this long term struggle to destroy the power of the Islamic world by breaking it up into tiny pieces and of course the primary beneficiaries of this are intended to be the Zionists who will not have any significant opposition once the Middle East has been fragmented into tiny competing fragments.

So I really call on world Muslims to wake up and to realize that we need to solve these problems peacefully and in cooperation with our fellow Muslims.

VG/GHN

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