Syria orders women to cover up on beaches with conservative new dress code

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1. [This is what beaches looked like](https://media.gettyimages.com/id/810061690/photo/syria-conflict-daily-life.jpg?s=2048×2048&w=gi&k=20&c=J5AnTO0z7aRoHjxeTNdPZ-8p75ovI-WJe3wAm2fpx6c=) before the change of regime.

   Assad was not a good guy by any stretch of the imagination, but I fear the West replaced a bad regime with something much worse.

   EDIT: Assad was incredibly brutal and authoritarian. If he had any suspicion (even if unfounded) that you represented a threat to his rule, he would bring down unbelievable levels of cruelty and brutality upon you. His regime was also highly corrupt.

   But if he perceived you as harmless, he did not give a shit about how you dressed, your sexual practices, your religion, if you prayed or not, if you had sex before marriage or not. In other words, he was highly AUTHORITARIAN but he was not TOTALITARIAN. He did not have the drive or desire to control every aspect of your private life as long as he perceived you as not being a threat to his rule.

   This new group is as brutal, authoritarian and corrupt as he was, but on top of that, they are also religious fanatics totalitarians who wish to control every aspect of everyone’s life in Syria. How you dress, what you eat or drink, when you eat or drink, your mosque attendance, your private sexual practices, everything.

   So you take everything that was horrible about Assad (which was a lot of stuff) and then you add ISIS on top. That is the current Syria.

2. Syria had a secular regime under Assad, but of course the US had to change the regime and replace it with former al-Qaeda and Isis members since the previous regime was a threat to Israel….

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