Another ridiculous time magazine "100 most influential" choice: syria's al-qaeda-based new president, al-sharaa, the "soft-­spoken" mass murderer

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
friday, april 18, 2025 at 11:48:00 a.m. edt

Another ridiculous "time magazine 100 most influential" choice: syria's al-qaeda-based new president, al-sharaa

"(zh) syria’s interim [?!] president ahmad al-sharaa, previously known as the al-qaeda chief abu mohammad al-julani, was selected as one of time magazine’s yearly list of the 100 'most influential' people.

"former U.S. ambassador to syria Robert Ford, who played a role in and advocated for Washington’s regime change policies in the country, put forward sharaa for the time 100 list. 'last december, after years of building a powerful armed faction – hayat tahrir al-sham (hts), classified internationally [abroad] as a terrorist group – ahmad al-sharaa and his rebel alliance toppled Bashar Assad’s brutal [?!] government in syria,' the write-up reads.

"once aligned with al-qaeda and then isis, the soft-­spoken sharaa later fought both groups aggressively to ensure his fighters answered to him. more recently, he assembled alliances with other syrian rebels, often at gunpoint, and secured turkish support. he also established a religiously conservative statelet in northwest syria that ruled effectively and reached out to reassure minority group [sic] – to beat Assad, the ambitious sharaa understood he had to become a political leader as well as a military force,' Ford wrote.

"he went on to say that 'now interim [?] president of all syria, sharaa balances between militants he once led and liberal syrians relieved Assad is gone,' adding that 'observers are left to wonder' if he is an extremist or a 'more a pragmatic politician who exploited extremist groups to gain power.

"this year’s list comes as sharaa has been hoping to secure international [foreign] support and sanctions relief, a little over a month after his government’s forces killed around 1,700 alawites in a series of sectarian killings along the syrian coast.

"the killings have continued. according to the syrian observatory for human rights (sohr), 42 people have died in sectarian killings since the end of ramadan on 30 march. incidents have spread from latakia to tartous and inland to homs. the forces of sharaa’s government have also recently blocked aid deliveries to the affected areas.

"up until last year, the new syrian president was known as abu mohammad al-julani. he was the head of hayat tahrir al-sham (hts), the extremist militant organization that took power in syria in december last year after the collapse of former president Bashar al-Assad’s government.

"his group has its roots in the nusra front – which was al-qaeda’s official branch in syria before being rebranded several times and becoming known as hts. it now makes up the bulk of the new syrian military, alongside other isis and al-qaeda-linked factions backed by turkiye [sic, turkey]."

GRA: New muslim boss--same as the old boss. Maybe Muir and al-sharaa can sit next to each other at "the show" and have a mini-jihad for abc's ratings.

To Muir, 'If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs...'

--GRA

N.S.: One time, during the 1930s, time declared Hitler, "the man of the year."