Nor is the more secular Free Syrian Army helped in its struggle for financial support by the fact that it has attracted most of the defectors to the opposition from the Assad regime. "Syrian defectors join the FSA, but people dislike them because they were once part of Assad's system," one observer told The Sunday Telegraph. "Donors would rather give money to people they know from their mosques, or from tribal family connections. Because of this the more religious Salafi groups attract a lot more funding from outside."