Incorrect.
In 2011, I joined the World Jamahiriya Movement which was an internet-spread movement that seeked to recreate in other societies/nations the political system that existed in Libya until 2011.
The Russian and Iranian support came later.
And even if your point about most Sunni soldiers deserting was true, what about the rest of them?? Why are they still fighting alongside their comrades from other "sects"?? What about the Palestinian soldiers who I believe are all Sunni??
And if I did wake up one random day, why would I automatically support someone so criticized in mainstream media??
No, I am an Indian Muslim.
Below is Assad at a mosque :
Islam is an early socialist system.
If they say something that is progressive then it can be considered. I think Islam's inheritance laws ( still progressive compared to other religions ) have something to do with the law that Muslim women cannot marry non-Muslims. If we bring the inheritance laws up-to-date then the marriage law can be updated. And this is what the Tunisian government has done.
Anti-Islamic??
Just because she doesn't wear burqa doesn't make her anti-Islamic. If that was so then the NATO tool from Yemen, Tawakkol Karman, is Islamic because she is almost fully covered up and thus NATO is a Islamic organization.
Secondly, the picture below ( from 2013 ) has former Syrian Army general, Salim Idris, on the right of serving US politician John McCain. It is true that some Syrian Army soldiers defected to the so-called FSA ( "Free Syrian Army" ) but it is not as much as you allude to. The FSA according to NATO consisted of "rebels" but in reality were mostly plain terrorists brought in from all over the world :
@BHarwana ^^^