“There is no God but Bashar”

Time magazine goes to Hama:

perhaps even more painful than the physical damage, residents say, is the humiliation: the graffiti Assad’s troops left all over the main streets, much of which is considered blasphemous and deeply offensive to this religiously conservative majority-Sunni Muslim city. “There is no God but Bashar” is scrawled in black paint in Souk al-Farwatiye, across the street from the vast, imposing white stone structure that is the ruling Baath Party headquarters in the city. “God Bashar and Maher Mohammad,” reads another sign

What a foolish thing to do. They go in there and leave permanent reminders to the people of why they should keep hating them and demonstrating against them.