Syria Deeply reports:
The al- Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), known colloquially by its Arabic acronym, ‘Daesh,’ has earned the disdain of Syrian civilians for its brutal practices and hard-line ideology.ISIS has been accused of kidnapping, extortion, and summary executions.
We tracked the outcry on social media and asked Syrians from across the country what they thought of ISIS. Tellingly, most of them used pseudonyms — ISIS has been harsh in its dealing with critics on the ground.
“There was no real ISIS presence in Syria until three months ago… now they are all over the place,” Ahmed, a former law student in the northwest city of Saraqeb. “Al-Qaida is not our way, we are definitely not pleased with this and we try everything we can to oppose them with whatever we can.”
ISIS “has sold the souls of the Syrian people on a golden plate to Assad,” said Jumana, a 23-year-old Arabic literature student from Damascus.
“They couldn’t beat the Americans in Afghanistan or the Iranians in Iraq, so they came here to rule over the Syrians, who are already in a war with a criminal regime,” added Walid Haji, a 26-year-old from the northeast province of Hasakeh.
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Activists were enraged after the killing of anti-regime activist Hazem al-Azizi, who was killed by an ISIS sniper in the northern Syrian city of Azaz.One protester in the northeast Damascus suburb of Douma—a stronghold of the Islamist Liwa al-Islam brigade and the FSA — holds a sign. “We didn’t have revolution against a tyrant…for another tyrant coming to control us in the name of religion!!!” it reads. “Daesh, get out.”
