George Banna, Mamdouh Bitar
The consideration of Islam as a primary source of legislation in the 1973 Constitution did not represent a religious stance of belief with religion, but rather a courteous step and accommodating the Muslim Brotherhood. In the context of this courtesy, other steps were taken, the most important of which was the sabotage of education by mutual consent between the Muslim Brotherhood and the authorities after 1973, especially after the Golanis assumed power. Each had its share in preventative sabotage. Enlightenment education is not in the interest of religious fundamentalism. It is in the interest of religious fundamentalism to establish Quran memorization schools to create blind loyalty to political religiosity. Dictatorships, regardless of their type, have no interest in enlightenment education. Therefore, The Assad regime turned public schools into sectarian party camps to deify Assad, while the Golanis turned schools into mosques, their goal being to create blind loyalty to any dictatorship. The Armenian and the Kurd, and the non-Baathist or non-Assadist, whether Alawite, Sunni or Christian, must repeat the slogan of one Arab nation several times every day, a slogan that eliminates the Kurdish and Syrian nationalism, to name a few, slogans to revive Arabism and bring down everything that differs from it. The Golanis have done nothing but worse than what the Assads did. The Golanis practiced sectarian cleansing on the coast and in the interior, and two days ago, churches were bombed and dozens of those called The name of the misguided infidels, the Golanis were interested in bikinis, burkinis, young women’s skirts, young men’s shorts, and much more besides such nonsense. Without direct knowledge and without prior expectation, and perhaps imitating or following the example of Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, a revolutionary movement erupted in Syria, which should have erupted several decades ago, demanding what the Brotherhood does not demand and what the Assad regime does not want. Here, the intersection of Brotherhood-Assad interests, i.e. the Shiite-Alawite political interests, reappeared once again. The interests intersected in a timid and silent manner… With silence, camouflaging the intersection of interests was also done with mutual insults as a harsh language for teasing. Under the umbrella of harsh teasing, the 2011 revolution was completely eliminated by the armed factions of ISIS, primarily, especially the military wing of this revolution, which was composed of defectors from the Assad army. As a result, nothing remained in the arena except Assadism and fundamentalism, and the three-way battle of revolutionaries, factions, and Assadism turned into a duality between Assadism and fundamentalism. After eliminating the 2011 revolution, the Brotherhood felt close to the throne, especially after they decided many battles with Assadism in their favor, and after they took control of large parts of the Syrian land, until they reached the outskirts of Qardaha… days and the Commander of the Faithful, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, would sit on the throne of the Caliphate, and the Brotherhood would achieve what they dreamed of. The Brotherhood had been waiting for years. Until their dreams came true about half a year ago, now the Golanis are sitting on the seat of power and the reproduction of the Umayyad Caliphate, as they wished to call it, has been achieved! The realization of the dreams of fundamentalism in Syria was not like the conquests of the Caliphs without shedding a single drop of blood, as some of the falsifiers of history have claimed!!!!! The arrival of fundamentalism to the throne cost the country its material and human existence, and perhaps its future. The Assad regime occupied the country as an internal colonialism with the help of external forces such as the Iranian mullahs and Hezbollah, and the Golan Heights occupied the country with the help of external forces such as Turkey and mercenaries from the Uighurs and Chechens. All of this was accompanied by torrents of blood, which reached the knees. Previously, the rivers turned red from the abundance of blood, and the churches were also demolished. For months, blood has been filling the valleys of the coast, and recently blood has filled the churches, reminiscent of the massacres of 1886, and more recently of the Rabaa sit-in in Cairo, where 66 churches were burned by the Brotherhood. Ancient history is full of events greater and more magnificent than what we saw two days ago in Damascus. Here we want to remember the Umayyad Caliph Yazid bin Abdul Malik, then the Abbasid Caliph Al-Ma’mun, then the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil, the Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, and other monsters, and all the Muhammadan eras, even the Mamluks and Ottomans. Here we cannot ignore the Umar era, and there is not enough space to mention everything that happened in those ancient eras. All of that led to the decline of some groups to some extent before… Complete extinction, now the extinction is complete, whoever did not emigrate before the church massacre, will emigrate after this massacre, and thus the Christian presence ends completely in this region, and the chapters of a stage that lasted about 1440 years end, not only in Syria and Iraq but also in the rest of the countries that call themselves Arab, those countries have deserved this name, which symbolizes great savagery, baseness and inability to live in a mosaic of diversity.