Chicago, IL - People from across the Chicago land area attended a rally to support the struggle of the people of Syria against the oppressive Bashar Al-Assad regime. For over five decades, the Al-Assad family has been running one of the most brutal and repressive governments of the Middle East. For the same amount of time, Syria has been used as a client state by Western powers to maintain their interests in the region by conducting proxy operations in Lebanon and Iraq and by protecting Israel. In servitude of its American masters, the Al-Assad regime has run one of the most ruthless dictatorships, carrying out many massacres including the Hama massacre, killing more than 40,000 people and the massacres against the protestors this year. Muslims in Syria have been demanding the removal of this oppressive regime and the return of the justice of Islam through the Khilafah "Caliphate" even as thousands have been brutally killed. Using slogans and holding up signs, rally participants in Chicago were supporting their brethren in Syria will similar calls for the removal of the Al-Assad regime, the removal of Western agents and the re-establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate".

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