Bashir Assad Quotes
[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
Rose, Charlie. "Charlie Rose: An Interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad." PBS, 9 Sept. 2013.
In most religions, the clerics generally denounce violence especially where innocent people are involved as do many Islamic clerics throughout the world. However, a very large proportion of the Islamic Clergy not only condones violence but actually urges it and uses their interpretation of religious duty to motivate people in that direction. They tend to drown out the pacifistic Muslim clerics and in some cases they call for their death for heresy, thus intimidating many Islamic moderates.
At the time the President denied that he had decided to invade Iraq. Skelton saw the “handwriting on the world.”
Bashar Hafez al-Assad is a Syrian politician who is the current President of Syria, holding the office since 17 July 2000. He is also commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces, General Secretary of the ruling Ba'ath Party and Regional Secretary of the party's branch in Syria.
