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But Abouzeid’s perspective raises some questions. She argues that the uprising was an armed Islamic undertaking from the beginning, which parallels the Assad regime’s propaganda. The regime’s tactic has been to try to impress upon the world that there was no citizens’ uprising but rather an armed Islamic movement that threatened the government and needed to be crushed. That storyline helped the regime to crack down on peaceful activism from the outset and established the narrative of an armed Islamic insurgency.
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