Editor's note: Arwa Damon and human rights activist, Razan Zaitouneh, talk about the violence in Syria.
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In Friday's broadcast showing the video clip of the protest in Damascus – Anderson offered the following translation (working from memory so is not be verbatim) for "Allahu Akbar" = Allah is the Greatest or God is great! He was correct on this traslation but for the translation of "takbir" I believe it was incorrect – he mentioned it had something to do with a shout referring to the aggressors shooting at the crowd. "Takbir" is actually a "call" (to chant back)...Allahu Akbar!
What if we get in Syria's conflict with love, not with more destruction and condemnation, to help those who are already lost under the shadows of the domination or being dominated for such long horrible events and time?
If we had expended our money from 2003 up to now with wars, and turned it in constructing another country, it would be less money expended, more international credibility, less intrusion, more friendship, better results in sharing life with everyone.
Love has powers that our sad warriors reality can't not even imagine. Imagine this. John L. did it well.