Ma  Bitar, Ruba Mansour:

        For many years we were ordered to respect the anthem called “My Homeland”, that is, the Syrian anthem, or as it was recently called, the Syrian Arab anthem, after the label of Arabism was stuck on Syria by the internal Arabized colonialism, The anthem was written by Khalil Mardam Bek and composed by the Fleifel brothers, We were also ordered to salute the other scandalous flag with its symbols, colors and connotations that are alien to this country and this society, and that glorify the side that colonized this country, exploited it, froze it, desertified it and pushed it into the tunnel of backwardness and hypocrisy.

How will a society advance with this anthem and those role models mentioned in it? And how will a country advance under the banner of those who occupied it and slaughtered its people for a thousand years?? And what did the herds of plundering, stealing and captive Bedouins of the Jazira offer to the Syrian people for this people to be proud of them and glorify them? Was the covenant of Omar a source of pride for Syria or a Bedouin decadence and contempt that continued to be applied by the Arabists? We do not want to discuss the weakness of the text and its poverty of human, civilized and moral meanings and connotations, Our attention was drawn to the last verse of Khalil Mardam Bek’s poem, where the poet glorified shame, The writer of the anthem concluded his anthem with the following verse:

      Among us is Al-Waleed and among us is Al-Rashid, so why don’t we prevail and why don’t we sing?

        The anthem asked, “Why should we not prevail and why should we not sing?” Sovereignty has various forms and types, including sovereignty through virtue and sovereignty through devotion… The master of a people is their servant!!!!! However, the composer of the anthem and its promoters from among the Arabized people did not mean sovereignty through virtue, nor did they mean sovereignty through serving others or fulfilling duties towards humanity. Rather, they meant sovereignty in the Bedouin Hijazi way, which is limited to the possessive occupation (conquests) and to oppression, plunder, looting, captivity and what came in the shameful covenant called “Umariyah” through what were called possessive conquests, The anthem tried to emphasize that Al-Walid and Al-Rashid are role models for those who follow, Is it possible to follow the example of Al-Walid or Al-Rashid?

             We did not have the honor of knowing Al-Walid or Al-Rashid directly, but what we know about their history does not allow anyone but beasts to follow their example, What was written about them would not occur to the mind of a rational, cultured person, and would only be approved by someone who has lost his mind and surrendered to stupid indoctrination, which molds vice into virtue and transforms morals into reprehensible hooliganism.

            Al-Rashid is a role model! He was a stallion among the stallions of the Bedouins, His virility was directly proportional to the number of female slaves, eunuchs, and boys in his harem, It is said that their number reached about 4,000 female slaves, With that number of captives and female slaves, Al-Rashid became the greatest commander of the largest brothel known to history, It is said that he had intercourse with them all, Therefore, we cannot consider the anthem a source of pride, but rather a humiliation  ,It does not matter if we take Al-Rashid or his guard Al-Amin or Al-Ma’mun or his predecessor or successor, we will not find anything civilized or moral at all, In the role model, Harun Al-Rashid, the oppressive reality was represented, He was an unparalleled tyrant, moody and a degenerate murderer who cut off the head of anyone who opposed him, He was a terrorist who entered Baghdad carrying the head of his victim, Abu Asma, on his spear,As for the dismemberment practiced by the Bedouins, governments and peoples, even in this day, it has its precedents, not only with Harun Al-Rashid, but also with his predecessor, And behind him, as that surgical operation was called “detailing the immoral”, and thus the butchers, based on the orders of Harun al-Rashid, who was on his deathbed, cut his opponent Bashir ibn al-Layth into 14 pieces, and about the Kharijites and beheadings, there is no shortage of talk, then about the Barmakids and the uprising of Azerbaijan…etc., it was said that the pious Rashid used to pray a hundred rak’ahs every day!!!!, a lie and hypocrisy! If it was said that he was like the prophet Moses who had intercourse with a hundred women in one day or like Ibn Abdullah, who had intercourse with more than ten of his wives every night, we would believe that, but we would not believe the story of the hundred rak’ahs.

            Al-Rashid, the Caliph of Allah on earth, divided his time, allocating one year for conquest and one year for Hajj, i.e., one year for plunder and one year for taqiyya, His predecessor and successor were like him, Here, for example, is Usman, who considered the Caliphate a gift given to him by Allah (the story of the shirt) , Here is Abu Bakr “excommunicating” apostates by the hundreds of thousands, Here is Umar conquering Egypt and burning the Library of Alexandria, Here are the Arab rulers today as if they were Caliphs, There is no need to mention more about the evils of the Caliphs, their decadence and their crimes recorded by their historians, which were almost completely revealed in this era.

           As for the other role model Walid, who was promised paradise and called the drawn sword of Allah, he was the epitome of savagery, baseness, immorality and barbarism, We will summarize the story of Ibn Walid here by mentioning some events, such as the event of slaughtering Malik bin Nuwayrah and raping the beautiful Umm Tamim, Ibn Nuwayrah’s wife on the same night, Before the rape, Ibn Nuwayrah’s head was cooked and he enjoyed the soup in preparation for sleeping with the widow Umm Tamim, We sing for Ibn Walid, whose name is associated with the Red River and with the slaughter of 40 000 people from the Levant in a few months, according to what the fundamentalist Sheikh Wagdi Ghoneim admitted, proudly remembering that great achievement, Pages are not enough to mention everything that Ibn Walid did, who was in fact no worse than others, as they were all criminals, from their role model to the last vagabond among them, Their actions defy the most horrific imaginations of anyone with a mind, conscience and honor.

          Sovereignty in the Bedouin sense means control, tyranny, enslavement and exploitation, It means the occupation of Spain for many centuries, the occupation of Syria and its possession for dozens of centuries, in addition to nearly a quarter of the world, from the borders of China to the borders of Paris, The League of Nations after the First World War did not just denounce the conquests, but rather prohibited the use of the concept of conquests under penalty of punishment.

           Sovereignty in Bedouin means sending the butcher Amr ibn al-Aas to Egypt to take its women captive and conquer them and conquer it,  It also means Hajjaj in Baghdad and his bloodshed, It also means the massacres of al-Qaqa’a, and it also means Uqba ibn Nafi’ and Saladin al-Ayyubi, known as the most despicable character known to history (Youssef Ziedan 2017), Then he blinded the Arabs, then he burned humanity… and his saying “I lit my fire and called Qanbara,” and Qanbara was responsible for burning people while they were alive, Then the mass exterminations, such as the extermination of the Banu Qurayza tribe, and many, many heinous acts recorded by their historians.