A rising share of Asian Americans say they have no religion (32%), but many consider themselves close to one or more religious traditions for reasons such as family or culture. Kidnapped on December 14, 2013, Yasser Ali Al-Hweish was held for one year inside Al Batoun where he was interrogated and tortured on a daily basis before being transferred to Tawba Jail. The White Helmets would bring them outside and make them act out an attack, they would be filmed and then taken back inside the prison. Women were imprisoned separately to the men – their prisons were known as the 16th and 28th prison. The number of Muslim women leaders on the American stage has skyrocketed in recent years. Al-Hweish told me that the prisoners were regularly used to stage alleged attacks by the SAA. Most of them echoed much of what Hweish and Al-Othman told me regarding the White Helmets and their collaboration with the armed extremist groups.

Al-Othman also described the other prisons established by JAI. When I asked Al-Othman about the role played by the White Helmets in Douma, he became even more animated. Protestants, Muslims and Catholics are more of a mix of highly and moderately religious adults, while Jews and those who identify with another non-Christian religion are the least religious. The verse mentioning the “Scriptures” is in Quran 87:18-19 where they are referred to, alongside the Scrolls of Abraham, to have been “Books of Earlier Revelation”. In fact it’s the opposite – the attacks on us have intensified. We are absolutely sure that it’s the Turkish government and the rebel groups they support that are responsible for these assaults,” said Xelil. Official YPG spokesman Redur Xelil told RT that Turkey has contributed greatly to the disruption of the ceasefire in Aleppo by backing militant groups fighting against the Kurds in Syria. Both Russia and Syria have repeatedly demanded the exclusion of Mohammed Alloush, previously known as Jaysh al-Islam’s political leader, from the negotiations process. Muslims are the second-largest religious group in the world, and they have a growing presence in the West. According to China’s 2020 census, there are more than eleven million Uyghurs in this region, making up approximately half of its population, though many experts agree that increased Han Chinese immigration has lowered this number.

This claim is made more plausible by the fact that the UK Foreign Office was reported to be funding the PR for JAI via an international communications consultancy called Incostrat. “We will report this fact to the ceasefire centers, to the Russian center in Latakia and to the American one in Jordan,” YPG said in a statement. The hardline Islamist group did not not specify what substances were used, but claimed that it will punish those responsible. The hardline Islamist group Jaysh al-Islam is formally a member of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) that is representing the Syrian opposition at the Geneva talks. The ceasefire in Syria came into effect on February 27. The cessation of hostilities agreement, drawn up with the active involvement of US and Russian diplomats, includes some 97 militant opposition groups operating in Syria. Alloush was picked as the chief negotiator for the Syrian opposition in Geneva, which has drawn ire from Damascus and criticism from Moscow.

I interviewed many civilians from Eastern Ghouta after liberation both in Ghouta and outside in the camps for the internally displaced in the Damascus suburbs. Aleppo have grown significantly – 44 civilians have been killed and 74, including children, have been wounded as a result of these attacks,” said the ministry’s spokesman, Igor Konashenkov. The Jaysh al-Islam militant group fighting government forces in Syria has admitted to using “forbidden” weapons against Kurdish militia in Aleppo. Therefore it is no great leap of logic to make the connection between the UK FCO, the White Helmets and the PR campaign for JAI to whitewash their murderous, extremist reputation in Syria. Assyrian texts do not always make it clear which Ishtar they are referring to. Hubris, never a particularly good thing, can be especially dangerous in economics, because its scholars don’t just observe the laws of nature; they help make them. It can rob them of a hope for any kind of future. Skeptics say EVPs can be explained rationally, as radio interference or a person’s mind playing tricks.