However, an engineering report conducted by the mission and a toxicology report commissioned from experts in Germany showed that the victims could not have been killed by chlorine gas and that the yellow cylinders that allegedly were dropped by helicopter to deliver the gas were likely placed on the roof and on the bed by hand.
In other words, the engineering and toxicology reports provided evidence that the chemical attack may have been staged by activists linked to the western-backed armed groups fighting the Syrian government and that the 43 victims had been killed in another way, such as by the activists and militants involved in staging the attack.
I find religion often reflects material conditions, so the Catholicism of Cuba looks remarkably different in substance to that of the US or France. I am athiest myself though I was deeply religious in my younger years.
I find that in the West, however, our brand of secularism and the athiesm that resides in the West (1) attempts to obscure ongoing imperialist and settler-colonial relations (2) obscures class relations (3) and is often deeply reactionary compared to many religious folks from the Global South.
I find the West’s athiesm is signficantly represented by the Hitchens, Harris’, and Dawkins’ of this world - I thus often find solidarity easier with religious folks than the patronising empty neutrality of Westerners at large. But I must admit the latter is a disease of being a Westerner and its ongoing genocidal relations with race.
It’s because western atheism is just thinly veiled white supremacy. There’s already a hatred for the people, so naturally it extends to what they believe.