BannaSamir Sadek, George
Looking at the systems of government in this region, such as the Sudanese regime before last, or the Iraqi, or Gaddafi’s Libyan, or the Syrian, or others, we see that they came on the backs of tanks, and established totalitarian models of government that imposed the deification of the person, and then abolished political parties, These systems alienated the world from north to south and from east to west, and crises, disasters, divisions, and pursuit by the International Criminal Court and Interpol exploded in their faces and in the faces of their leaders, Despite this, those personal systems lasted for several decades, even the system of the biggest empty head, such as Gaddafi, lasted for more than half a century!!
The regimes had a great deal of room to maneuver both externally and internally, and in this context there were some marginal concessions, The only concession that was not possible was leaving power and relinquishing authority, There was a willingness to sell out the homeland, destroy it, or slaughter the people and commit massacres. 80% of the Syrian army’s weapons, and even more in the Iraqi army and others, were allocated for internal use for repression, At this time, we are also witnessing the phenomenon of the current Syrian Interim Authority recruiting tens of thousands of mercenaries from Chechnya, Afghanistan, Uyghurs, and others to commit horrific massacres against Syrian women and men, What is the need for foreign mercenaries when the Gulani terror claims that 95% of Syrians support it?!
History confirms that these countries do not change from within, i.e. through revolutions and popular uprisings, because those who lived for 1440 years under the rule of the Caliphate or the Sultanate lost national consciousness, Colonialism, whether it was Bedouin Hijazi or Ottoman, could not teach the peoples of its colonies the culture of patriotism, let alone the culture of revolution, because it was illiterate in terms of patriotism and revolution, Moreover, there is no such thing in the dictionary of these regimes as a voluntary relinquishment of power under any circumstance or situation, in order to preserve the heritage and practices that prevailed for 14 centuries,Change occurred through a military coup, war, or armed foreign intervention, as was the case with Iraq and Libya.
Despite the world changing in science, production, industry, politics, and morals, the systems of the Middle Eastern region have remained resistant to change through popular or democratic means, The farce of “democratic weddings,” as described by a broadcaster on Damascus Radio, such as when Assad and Nasser won 100% of the votes in elections or referendums, has turned into a mourning and funeral for truth, cleanliness, transparency, and integrity, and into both mourning and farce at the same time, What are the reasons for the resistance of these totalitarian regimes to internal mechanisms of change such as demonstrations, rebellions, or civil disobedience?
One of the most important of those reasons was the culture of obedience, Obedience to the sultan or governor was a religious necessity,This situation was described by Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, who said: “The common people are the tyrant’s strength and power, He lords it over them, he imprisons them and they rejoice in his might, he seizes their money and they praise him for keeping them alive, he humiliates them and they extol his highness, he incites some of them against others and they boast of his policies, and if he is extravagant with their money they say he is generous, and if he kills some of them and does not mutilate them they say he is merciful, he leads them to the danger of death and they obey him, and if some of the proud ones resent them, they fight them as if they were rebels.”
Tyranny is born from the womb of “submission,” which is based on obedience and not on conviction,Obedience is blind by nature; it negates the mind of the obedient and eliminates his will, which is then occupied by the will of tyranny, Consequently, the mind is reduced, which has no function under tyranny,Reducing the mind returns the human being to the animalistic state, which is represented by practicing his instincts and preserving his physical existence, which is guaranteed by the digestive tract, i.e., the parasitic creature of the feeding trough, The primitive creature turns into something like a channel, where feed enters from one side and waste comes out from the other, Whoever walks this path willingly or by force will reach nothingness and extinction, It is an inevitable fate from which there is no escape!
The objectification of man was one of the most important reasons for the perpetuation of despotism and tyranny. Objectification makes it easier for tyrants to oppress and kill the flock. Man has no value mentioned. He is worth the value of a trivial, cheap thing. Losing a person under torture, for example, is a loss of things. Thus, the value of man has turned to less than the value of the bullet that penetrates his head.
One of the most prominent characteristics of tyrants in this region is their savagery and bestiality, coupled with a complete lack of moral restraint, Killing people is considered a security necessity, and stoning an opponent or rebel is as easy as stoning an adulteress, Therefore, some hesitate to risk their lives for a homeland that is not truly a homeland, for a vast prison, for a zoo the size of a nation, The Syrian is condemned from birth, immediately after birth, and for the rest of his life, he is expected to worship the god of the land and flatter him, while simultaneously boasting of his obedience and submission under the guise of a false patriotism, The Syrian is born and dies at the same moment, Therefore, neither the Arab nor Ottoman Caliphate history records a single popular revolution, However, between 1920 and 1930, there were several revolts in Syria against the French Mandate, even before the characteristics of this mandate were fully understood, It has now been established that the French Mandate period was, in comparison to the national rule after 1946, far superior, It was difficult to rebel against Jamal Pasha the Butcher because he was a believer and considered God’s representative on Earth,The situation was different for De Gaulle’s France, according to his principle. Loyalty and disavowal!
There is a major flaw in the public’s understanding of the concept of the state and authority, The state exists to remain, while authority exists to disappear, The misery of the people is represented by the opposite: authority exists to remain, while there is no objection to the disappearance of the state,Even if authority remains without a state, authority exists to serve the state, while the misery of the Arabs considers the state to be subservient to authority,Religion exists to serve humanity, while the general public of these people considers humanity to be subservient to religion, Does the All-Powerful need to be served? Authority is subordinate to the state, while the general public considers the state to be subordinate to authority, It is the state of authority, not the authority of the state, In general, the popular concept of the state and authority suffers from ambiguity,It is not permissible to uproot authority when authority considers itself to be the state, and authority sees itself as the state,Then, an attempt to uproot it is considered an attempt to uproot the state, There is an identification between the state and authority and a failure to understand the differences between them.
There are many other factors that have contributed to the resistance of systems to internal change mechanisms, The heritage is entirely religious and 1440 years old, Throughout these years, there has been nothing but the dominance of absolute power, In reality, there was no state even after the concept of the state emerged about 600 years ago, The situation has not changed until now, meaning that peoples are still under the protection of a stateless authority.
