How ISIS Hijacked the Syrian Revolution

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GAZIANTEP, Turkey —Remal Nofal, a student from the Syrian city of Raqqa — now the de-facto capital of the Islamic State — earned a reputation as a brazen activist: she not only protested against the Syrian regime but also the religious radicals who were gaining ground

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When the Islamic State, the extremist group also known as ISIS or ISIL, first pushed into her city, she accused them of hijacking the revolution.

“Where were you when we were facing the bullets of the regime?” she asked a judge in the group's Sharia Commission, or religious court, after an activist friend had been detained. “You are oppressors — just like” Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad. Read more...

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