Mufid Bitar, Syriano
Seeing peoples achieve a small portion of their dreams, most of which were shattered in past centuries, is heartwarming. It is also heartwarming to see self-interested rulers falling one after another—rulers who have made the world laugh with their buffoonery, schizophrenia, brutality, primitiveness, dictatorship, trivialities, feeble-mindedness, baseness, and theatrics—as well as their hollow, wooden, and stilted talk about their victories and plans for the future, and about the necessity of calm around them so that the march of development and progress (security first) can proceed without hindrance. Bread is their last concern, while the security of the Sultan was their foremost concern. Otherwise, the march of progress will cease, and the issuance of reform decrees will cease. Were it not for Assad’s decrees, there would be no Syria, especially with such sophistication, progress, and peace! It is natural for the reform process to stop when a drum beats in the Waq Waq Islands or in Iraq. A sensitive president cannot reform to the tunes of war drums. It is also natural for a president to stop his creative, developmental, and reformative work when Hariri is killed, for example, because he cannot be preoccupied with Hariri and then reform and develop at the same time. And when Hezbollah is fighting in southern Lebanon, the reform process must also be stopped. But the most important reason for stopping the wheel of modernization and revolutionary achievement (the blessed March 8 Revolution!) was the conspiracy. Conspiracy, brothers!!!!! And what do you know about a conspiracy? It is imperceptible, tangible, or visible, despite being universal. The difference between it and Uthman’s shirt is that the latter is a rag drenched in blood, while the illusion of a conspiracy is what caused the country to be drowned in blood. The country is a cheaper and more trivial rag than Uthman’s shirt! This is the conspiracy that embitters the lives of the scum of the ignorant rulers, who do not rule, because they are a broken ruling machine, but are tried, and they are always able to issue rulings, which are then called ignorant rulings. The 22-year prison sentence for weakening national sentiment was an ignorant ruling. There is no opposition in the kingdom of the ignorant ruler, and where is this opposition when the people, by a majority of 99%, pledge allegiance to the ignorant as ruler forever? The opposition, accordingly, is a Western name for a Syrian saboteur. The opposition is a strange name for an American or Zionist agent. The state was nothing but ignorant people and a herd of slaves and henchmen. Some may not know the origin of the expression “identity ruler” and its purpose. It is a new term in Arabic, and it originated in Tunisia at the hands of the thinker Fathi Al-Maskini. It is a relatively new term like the term “camelukiya”, “shabiha” or “dhabih”. The identity ruler is not satisfied with the known mission of ruling, which he is unable to practice in a way that is acceptable to 1% of the humiliated people. The identity ruler wants to hybridize the citizen with his crisis-ridden complexion, his whims and his dwarfed size. Everything about the identity ruler is purely personal and results from a solitary identity-based perception of himself as the original version of the entire herd, which he must belong to and take as an eternal moral and national reference! The identity ruler has no doubt that he is eternal. The identity-based Colonel Bou Minyar Muammar Gaddafi did not imagine that he might be wiped out in a sewer. The identity ruler is similar in his sentences against opponents… always life imprisonment! He is the necessary leader, or the sole leader, or the leader forever. He is the exceptional president, the maker of change and revolution. He is the greatest imam or the inspirational one, or any other of his identity characteristics. He walks on two limbs, while his ilk jump and hop on all fours! God bless him!