Fascinating look at how the Muslims deal with each other. This is a piece on the Syrian death squads sent by their own people to deal with their own people. The organization is called the Shabiha in Syria. But this phenomenon exists widely in the Muslim world and is not unique to Syria. Check this out:

From news article:

Nine days ago, 108 people were butchered by the Shabiha in the town of Houla. The pro-Assad thugs went through the village, house to house, and slit the throats of anyone they came across – including 49 children. Exactly a week later, the Shabiha pulled 12 factory workers off a bus in the town of Qusayr, 40 miles to the south; tied their hands behind their backs, and shot them in the head.

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The world is learning just how bloodthirsty the Shabiha can be. But inside Syria, their capacity for hideous brutality has long been known.
"Even before the revolution, any time there was unrest they would go out into the streets and stop it for the government," said Selma, who comes from a prominent Alawite family – a Shia Muslim sect, into which the Assad family was born, and to which almost all of the Shabiha belong. Her cousins are Shabiha.
"They would just break people's arms and legs. They would fight for Bashar to the death. It is natural – they have to defend their sect."
Her cousins wore civilian clothes, she explained – "then the television can say that these are just civilians who love Bashar."

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"It is something in their religion that moves them. And state media is terrifying them that terrorists will kill them if Bashar falls from power," he said.
"The army gave my friend a gun, he started using it to shoot at the people in the demonstrations. The security forces gave him a special sense of identity."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...th-squads.html