A Syrian living in Malaysia displays a placard criticising Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during a silent protest in Kuala Lumpur on March 2, 2012. Meanwhile, aid agencies scrambled to get relief convoys into the Syrian city of Homs on March 2 after regime forces overran its Baba Amr neighbourhood ending a nearly four-week pounding. (Getty Images)'Cause Arab and Muslim despots, both secular and religious, are usually merciful, especially when they torture and slaughter.
