Assad said the Jews “tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.”
We are in agreement that we can't trust anything out of Assad's mouth. I am pointing out that we can't trust the Sunni rebels either. The Islamist trend in the Muslim world has been going on for decades. Friends and acquaintances who have traveled to Muslim countries have remarked upon it, but most - including me - thought of al Qaida-style bloodthirstiness as an aberration. The Sunni street's reaction to 9/11 disabused me of that notion.