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May Allah bless and protect our brothers and sisters in Aleppo, and we ask Allah to reward the young people for their efforts to confuse Russian warplanes; however, if any of us believes that smoke can disrupt an airstrike campaign, if we think that the pilots are flying “by eye”, then we do not understand…

It is, of course, the natural and human instinct to sympathize with the victims of oppression and tyranny, and to identify with them. But this sympathy should not dictate from what vantage point we analyze the conflict. The most informative perspective in any conflict is always going to be the perspective of the oppressor, the…