Syria: Women’s Rights and Islamist Education in a “Liberated” Area of Aleppo

Funded by Saudi Arabia, US, France and United Nations

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Editor’s Note

Religious Wahhabi school and women’s rights in a  “liberated” area of Aleppo run by the US-Saudi backed “opposition”,  “a definite improvement” when compared to the prevailing system of secular education in Syria.

The following video provides an insight into what Syria might become under a post Al Assad “democracy” sponsored by the US, NATO and Israel. 

In addition to the support provided by Saudi Arabia, the Wahhabi schools in the “liberated zones” are also indirectly supported by the United Nations, USAID and France.

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, March 26, 2012


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Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, Editor of Global Research. He has taught as visiting professor in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Latin America. He has served as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has acted as a consultant for several international organizations. He is the author of 13 books. He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His writings have been published in more than twenty languages. In 2014, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit of the Republic of Serbia for his writings on NATO's war of aggression against Yugoslavia. He can be reached at [email protected]

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