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Syria and the label of Arabism

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   Samir Sadek,Syriano

العربي - #كاريكاتير | الثورة السورية | بريشة سعد المهندي 🎨 | Facebook        Is it logical or historically ethical to attach the label “Arab” to the name of Syria, i.e., to call it an Arab republic? Who are the Arabs? Are the people of Syria, or the majority of them, Arabs? What percentage of Arabists are there now in Syria? After Arabism has become a disgrace! And after the death of Nasserism and Ba’athism, why do we culturally or even racially attribute Syria to a people who invaded and colonized it, and who were the most despicable and vile colonizers in human history? Why do we attribute it to a dark colonial era, despite the existence of enlightened and advanced Syrian eras? And why should we attribute Syria to something other than Syrian, such as “Arab,” which represents the occupation or what is called the conquest of Syria, and the opening of the way for civilizational stagnation, rigidity, backwardness, and massacres at the hands of criminals like Khalid ibn al-Walid, Umar ibn al-Khattab, and others?

 Compared to the 700-year Roman occupation, which was accompanied by a partnership between the Romans and the Syrians in ruling Rome, as there were several Syrian emperors in Rome, in contrast there was no Syrian caliph in Mecca or a Syrian sultan under the Ottomans. Also, all the cultural landmarks we see in Syria were established in the Roman era, There are no Arab cultural landmarks in the Syrian Levant, such as the landmarks of Palmyra and Baalbek, then the theaters, irrigation canals, and the construction of bridges over rivers such as the Khabur River and others, which are still in use today, 2000 years after their construction, Did the Bedouins invent the craft, the plow, the wheel, and the musical score? We do not know of any civilizational trace from the Hijazi Quraysh Stone Age, except for the humiliation of the jizya(tribute), the Umar covenant, the massacres of Khalid Ibn al-Walid, and then the forced Islamization (Submit and be safe), Even the formulation of Roman law was primarily at the hands of Syrians like Banbial, The law made the Romans, Syrians, and others in the Mediterranean basin equal, especially in the field of construction, while there was no equality between the Bedouin of the Muhammadan Quraysh Sharia and the new converts to Islam and the Syrians.

Historically, it can be said briefly that some Arab tribes of the Arabian Peninsula began to migrate to the Levant, even in the period preceding the advent of the Muhammadan call, fleeing from the hardship of life and in search of pasture, water, and grazing land, These tribes took up herding and lived a nomadic life, which was somewhat influenced by Syrian culture, while the advanced Syrian culture did not affect the Bedouin such as the tribes of Taghlib, Ghassan, Bakr, the Lakhmids, and others. Before that, Syria was under Roman rule, and Iraq was subject to Persian influence, Greek was the state language in the Levant, just as Persian was the language of Iraq, after Aramaic had been the language of the world, There was a kind of assimilation among all the peoples who lived in the Levant, with the exception of the Bedouin of the Peninsula, who did not mix with others, and therefore did not acquire anything of civilization. Their interest after the conquests was focused on theft, captivity, and spoils of war (they were called Saraqinu).

     After the conquests, the entire region was subject to the rule of the emerging Hejazi Caliphate,The Bedouin were a minority in Syria and the Levant, as their percentage did not exceed, by estimate, 6% of the total population of natural Syria at the beginning of Umayyad rule, After the conquests, the process of Arabizing the state and its departments began, and Arabic became the official language, and the islam  religion became the religion of the country, This situation continued until the beginning of the decline of the Abbasid state, which was characterized by the entry of different ethnic elements of Persians, Turks, Kurds, Circassians, and others into the bodies of the societies of the Levant,These ethnicities negatively affected the people of the Levant culturally, and the backward legacy of the conquerors is still present and dominant in many aspects of life in the Levant.

The negative interaction between the people of the Levant, i.e. the Syrians, and the Bedouin invaders continued,What united them, despite their ethnic, cultural, and religious differences, was the land, the land of Syria and the Levant,They did not want to live with the other groups on an equal footing, which was abolished by the rules of conquests and occupation, as there is no equality between the conquering occupier and the peoples of the colonies, A division that dominated militarily made the inhabitants creatures to pay tribute while they were humiliated, or to convert to Islam, or to accept the sword fight,As a result, the country did not develop, but rather froze and rotted, and it is still, to this moment, under the legacy of conquests, occupations, and the Pact of Omar, rotten, frozen, and backward, The audacity of the man of authority of the new fundamentalist regime in Syria reached a point where he allowed al-Julani to present the text of the shameful Pact of Omar to the Syrian Patriarch on the occasion of his visit to him in Damascus.

In the modern era, with the awakening of national consciousness in this region, the idea of ​​Arab nationalism spread, borrowed from European thought, Arab nationalism was a utopian idea, its initial goal being to unite the Fertile Crescent and the Hejaz into one state after expelling the Ottoman occupation, This dream was not destined to succeed, especially after the dream regressed into a chauvinistic, racist Arabism, For many reasons, there was widespread acceptance at that time of the dream of “The Arab lands are my homelands,” The dream evaporated in the context of a century of destruction, Nothing remained of “The Arab lands are my homelands” but ruin and failure.

  We see that the Arabs are a people like any other, who settled in Syria and dominated, as a conquering colonizer, the peoples of the Levant, which were in reality pluralistic. The Syrian character remained alive despite attempts to obliterate, destroy, and abolish it by all means by the Bedouin colonizer. In the Arabized school after the First World War, students had to learn that the age of the Syrian province was 1400 years, and what came before that was nullified. There was even an attempt to uproot the civilization of the last 1400 years by demolishing and removing the monuments. Despite the attempts to uproot it, the Syrian character did not disappear. Its dormancy and fading were temporary, and now we are waiting for a kind of overwhelming Syrian awakening, especially after the first year of the rule of the new Umayyads.

Syria has many inhabitants but few citizens, Due to Arab-Muhammadan alienation and the distancing from and fighting against Syrian identity by Arabs, Arabized peoples, and their followers, Syria has been transformed into a formula of failure, The manifestations of Syrian nationalism have regressed into falsehood and pretense, There is no nationalism without identity, For those alienated from Syria, their primary and most important identity is the Arabists who affiliated themselves with the virtual Arab state, and the Brotherhood affiliated themselves with the virtual caliphate. Syrian identity, for the Bedouins and Arabized peoples, was and still is rejected and fought against by them, just like any colonizer who tries to erase the identity of the peoples of his colonies!

 The Arabists and the muslim Brotherhood reek of national adultery and identity schizophrenia, even to the point of treason, They have whatever identity they want in their countries, even if it is the identity of the devil, and no one has the right to hold them accountable, However, the paradox lies in their considering their presence in Syria as first-class Syrian citizenship and considering Syria as an “Arab” state, and what remains of the people must be Arabized as happened with the Kurds, They also have the right to rule the country according to their whims and in service of their goals in destroying Syria, or the daughter of the whore Sykes-Picot, as they called it, as a prelude to establishing the caliphate or a state from the ocean to the Gulf, or considering Syria as Umayyad.

The betrayal lies in the process of disguising national adultery with the noise of lies and fabrication, The honest, patriotic person does not destroy his homeland, nor does he belong, in identity and consciousness, to what is outside the borders of the homeland, which is Syria and not Arabism or the entity of the Hijaz Caliphate or the Umayyad Caliphate, Wherever the Arabs go, destruction follows, They destroyed homelands after the Arabized people became alienated from them with all frankness and rudeness, They should have preserved the Syrian identity, and participated in building the homeland and in its progress and stability, but they did not do that and preferred to turn into a fifth column, They are not ashamed because of the destruction they caused, and because of the failure of the state by destroying it and alienating it to Arabism-Umayyadism, which they should have participated in making successful.

After the Bedouin of the Arabian Peninsula entered the prosperous Levant, the arts of the giant theaters fell silent, beauty, art, and music were despised, and all creative activity was eliminated, The love of blood and rolling heads and the veneration of killers and murderers became widespread,The pen and the plow were broken, and the Arabs drew their swords to strike necks, Then the country turned into a brothel for concubines and captives, and into a brothel and a zoo the size of the country!

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