It's all very murky, but to try to condense it as simple as possible

1. Bashar al-Assad is like what would have happened if one of Saddam's sons had been able to take over. He's more modern simply by virtue of being younger, though still a dictator willing to use force.

2. Like Saddam, Bashar's regime is a minority regime. He is an Alawite Muslim, and his regime tends to be Alawite dominated, while Syria is Sunni majority, similar to how Saddam's Iraq was Sunni run in a Shiite majority country.

3. It's generally understood that Bashar's regime is the one that started this. But in this case, the opposition army seems to have quite a few shady people in its ranks, and their links to terrorists are not quite known.

4. Western media outlets tend to universally paint these people as freedom fighters, and while their foe definitely employs wicked tactics, it is clear that they are willing to stoop to very ignoble tactics themselves.

To be fair i have seen SOME news reports talking about the links to terrorism.

Sadly outside of the Christian Scinece Monitor.... it's mostly been US News and Fox News.

Revolutions usually degenerate to such things due to our simiesque nature of fighting to a bloody death. Syria's case is a typical one of evil vs. lesser evil. Which one is which is up to interpretation.

If support comes from Syria from the western world it won't be because a side consists of the good guys and the other of the bad guys. There isn't friendship among nations, there are interests. The western world didn't want a string of Russia- and China-oriented governments extending all the way to the Mediterranean so they have been systematically replacing them with "democracies" so there you have the future outcome of this story.

why is it less evil and not just the good side fighting for their freedom? or is there no such thing as "good" muslims fighting for their rights?

whatever they are doing against these asad people is an act of vengeance as it is only natural to not show mercy  to the merciless!

or maybe you need to lose a sister, brother or parents to start feeling what these people feel and maybe then you might understand why they are doing what they are doing! 

I'm sick of people trying to be saints when they do not understand any of this shit or what these people have gon through!

Yeah, how righteous your line of thought, let's go on a fit of rage and murder people because, hey, that's what they'd do, who am I to try to be any better? The revengezz is enough to put me on a higher moral ground!

And you are using the naturalistic fallacy. Just because something is "natural" it doesn't mean it is good. If sexism was proved to be genetically encoded would you endorse it?

There is no good side. Stop with that bullshit. Or do you read history books like "oh, life is so spiffing,how cool to see the good people always won the end!". The Syrian army and Assad aren't retarded to go doing stuff for teh evulz and the other side isn't made up of people so speshul butterflies fly out of their eyes.

Also this has nothing to do with them being muslims or not. Stop putting words on my mouth or assuming stuff out of thin air.

yeah so in your way it would be all flowers and whatever. oh you killed my loved ones did you? oh that's ok here have this flower and please stop with the killing will ya?

i'm not saying its the right thing to do but it is what humans do when they are pushed and its a hard thing to stop yourself from doing once your full of hate and rage against those who mistreated your loved ones. what are you an alien or something?

I'm using "muslim" as that is when people say this is wrong and it should not be allowed yet when the real terrorist who have the media (US/israel) on their side do these things its ok because they are killing muslims *couch* sorry meant terrorists!

Couldn't have said it better myself.