Syrian Muslim Brotherhood Demands More Weapons for the Free Syrian Army

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Shhh. For months now we weren’t supposed to mention the Free Syrian Army and the Muslim Brotherhood in one sentence even though the Brotherhood was dominating the Syrian Sunni opposition.

But now it’s the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood that is calling attention to itself with a petulant rant demanding more weapons.

With government forces stepping up offensives, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood called on the U.S. and Europe to send arms.

“Providing the Free Syrian Army and the revolutionary rebels with appropriate arms is more urgent now than at any time in the past,” the movement wrote on social media sites. “We feel cheated and disappointed because the U.S. and Europe have backed out from arming the FSA,” it said.

There’s all sorts of cheerful stuff going on in Homs now, which is starting to look like Hama II.

Videos released by activists and uploaded to YouTube showed bombs exploding around the densely built area surrounding the 13th-century mosque of Khalid Ibn al-Walid, famous for its domes and two minarets. Smoke appeared to be rising from the mosque complex while a shell hole from previous rounds of fighting was clearly visible in one of the mosque’s nine domes.

In a desperate move, rebels inside Khaldieh recorded videos of themselves strapped with explosive belts, pledging to blow up themselves and their surroundings if regime forces entered the mosque complex.“We have been besieged here for a year and a month now. We have been pounded with missiles, tank shells and warplanes,” one of the fighters says in the video.

“We have not received any kind of arms despite the pledges from the Free Syrian Army and the Arab countries. Where are the Muslims? We had to make these explosive belts because we have no other means to defend ourselves.”

Poor, poor Jihadists. But before you start feeling too sorry for the Sad Sunnis, reflect a moment on what they did to the Christians of Homs.

Anti-government militants have expelled 90% of Christians in Homs and confiscated their residences by force, said Fides, citing a note sent to the agency by the Syrian Orthodox Church.

The Vatican agency cited sources saying militants went door to door in the Homs neighborhoods  of Hamidiya and Bustan al-Diwan, “forcing Christians to flee, without giving them the chance to take their belongings.”

Having these kind and gentle Jihadist folk experience Hama II would be such a terrible tragedy. I might even sniffle. I hope Obama rushes them the weapons that they want before the ethnic cleansers of Christians get ethnically cleansed.

But don’t worry, there’s a truce on the way.

Jarba offered Assad’s forces a truce for the duration of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins on Tuesday, to stop fighting in the besieged city of Homs, where Sunni Muslim rebels face a ferocious ground and air onslaught by Hezbollah-backed troops and militias loyal to Assad.

What could possibly be the reason for the truce?

 The new president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition said on Sunday he expected advanced weapons supplied by Saudi Arabia to reach rebel fighters soon and change their military situation

Right then. That’s what Muslims truces look like.