Mamdouh Bitar, Syriano
Emphasizing the particularities of a people means emphasizing isolation, a methodology of obstruction and intransigence, and consequently, a lack of development and modernity. The foundation of all progress is the ability to develop, and privacy is the opposite of development. Privacy, in the Arabic sense, is a childish, arrogant concept that reveals the depth of ignorance and backwardness. No privacy can be exonerated from the taint of exclusion. The exclusionary mind sees only itself, which it elevates to the rank of the best of humanity. The best of humanity is a verbal classification that indicates the opposite in reality. Here, the individual is not to blame; the blame lies with the inherently exclusionary burden of thought, because this thought does not accept the existence of any other thought alongside itself, and only accepts the demise of the other, infidel thought. It is the concept of monotheism, which eliminates difference and plurality and establishes the misery of the one-dimensional human being. There are many Arab peculiarities, including monotheism, which begins with God and ends with the dictatorship of a single, deified individual, based on opposing the collective will. It is a “nominal” concept, but in practice, it is exclusionary and final, seeing only itself and recognizing no one else. It is exclusionary by nature. The exclusionary mind is permeated with many ideas and perceptions that oppose any collective effort, and insists on denying the existence of others and denying the necessity or right to criticize. To achieve all of this, it equips itself with violence, necessarily linked to extremism and fanaticism, representative of the natural environment of some groups, such as the Brotherhood, which sometimes fights with political regimes out of competition for a share of the spoils, not out of rejection of dictatorship. The exclusionary mind with a monotheistic source may be religious, or even political, social, ethnic, right-wing, or left-wing. However, the primary source is religious monotheism, which is characterized by intellectual obstruction, scientific intransigence, cultural stagnation, modernist failure, and defeat. This was the sole product of the Muhammadanism of the Arab peoples, who imprisoned themselves in the prisons of their history, unlike other nations and peoples, who did not imprison themselves in the prisons of their heritage, and were thus able to progress and prosper. The Arab thought, wearing the galabiya and turban of religion, in its various stages was exclusionary par excellence and carried ideologies that only allowed exclusion, such as monotheism, and dividing the world into the abode of war and the abode of Islam, then the disease of loyalty and disavowal and the disease of the infidel and the believer. The monotheist rejects pluralism, and the believer rejects the infidel, rather he must fight him and kill him. This thought could not live alongside another thought, and this thought does not live except with the disappearance of the other thought. Therefore, the thought of the Mu’tazila, the Hanbalis and others must be killed. And since separating reality from its source is difficult to the point of impossibility, therefore we see even in this era the catastrophe of the fragmentation of Syria, which Sykes-Picot presented to the Syrians and to the world as united. Syria was fragmented not into communist parts or Syrian nationalism or other political trends, but into an Alawite coast, a Kurdish east, a Druze south and a Sunni center. There is no Christian presence in these fragments. The Christian left the country and emigrated after being ostracized because he is not… Qualified for the model of this Syrian Arab religious life, yet unqualified for living in pluralism. Arab history has not known a state or a unifying entity for 1,440 years. Dominance in that entity was vested in one group or another. Deviating from that group, or from the unilateral model and unilateral policy, was tantamount to deviating from the group. Consequently, those who departed from the circle of obedience to the dominant group were punished in order to return them to the circle of obedience. Those who were returned to the circle of obedience were rendered lifeless, i.e., killedThe lack of awareness to accept pluralism and diversity represents a serious disease that leads to non-consensual interactions based on extremism and racism, especially religious extremism and religious racism… The best nation!!!! The matter does not remain limited to religion, but rather expands to include all other relationships between people, even medicine. Recently, a sheikhly fatwa appeared that imposes on believers to limit their medical treatment to the hands of a believing doctor, that is, the Muslim patient to the Muslim doctor, whoever this doctor is. The same applies to the store, the electrician, the taxi, or even the school, the residence, and all other aspects of life. In practice, this represents a demographic division of the society of the state or the single entity. The exclusionary vision is one, stemming from a legacy rooted in primitive culture. It is a metaphysical view that reveals the shallowness of the cognitive depth in the system of social awareness, and a monstrous thought that tends to confiscate the rights of the different others. It does not see the realization of itself except by denying the other and not recognizing him. It is the complex mind built on not accepting that for others, he is also a different other. This disease develops and takes root to eventually turn into an identity. Adhering to the exclusiveness of the exclusionary, abolitionist, monopolistic mind that repels equality and causes misery, means abandoning the consultative, analytical, tolerant, and understanding mind. In this region, there is no recognition of dialogue, but rather the practice of dictation and indoctrination. There is no opposition, but rather a traitorous agent. Then there is no existence even of a difference in religion, because religion is exclusively Muhammadanism, and what remains is nothing but heresy and unbelief. The exclusiveness of these peoples is the constant, while the other depends on the variable, which does not represent Privacy: Because it is variable and changeable, the variable concepts are reflected in the Arab mind as fixed privacy. These peoples need another mind when they want to have another present and future.