Tunisia’s former Ambassador to Syria has warned that if Russia is seeking to reinforce a religious dimension to its current military intervention in Syria, it could provoke the Muslim world, expand the conflict and “open the gates of hell” across the region.
“The Russian Orthodox Church blessed the intervention, saying that this is a holy war,” Mohammad Ayta said in an interview with Anadolu news agency. “I believe that this is very dangerous because of the complexities of the Syrian case, which already has sectarian and ethnic dimensions.” If the religious dimension is added, he suggested, the war would look like …read more
Source: Middle East Monitor
