Regardless of the specific educational risks, especially regarding the occupation, especially the Turkish one, here school students are being indoctrinated with Turkish-Ottomanism, and in the case of Iran, it was mullah-religious before the deportation of Iran and Iranians, Before addressing the specific educational-educational problems related to the occupation, it is necessary to recognize the general catastrophic scale of the war, especially in the field of education, and whoever wants to know this scale should refer to the reports of the United Nations, such as UNICEF, In 2019, UNICEF presented    a report that included a lot of shocking, catastrophic information.

The report stated, in brief, that the number of internally displaced children has reached 2.6 million, and the number of refugee children in neighboring countries has exceeded 2.5 million, About 40% of Syria’s school infrastructure has been severely damaged or completely destroyed due to the war. More than two million children inside Syria—more than a third of Syrian children—are out of school, while 1.3 million children are at risk of dropping out. Outside Syria, more than 800,000 of these children are still out of school.

These are terrifying numbers that portend a future catastrophe, represented by generations deprived of education. Thus, the spread of ignorance, illiteracy and backwardness has become inevitable, Meanwhile, these generations are expected to rebuild the destroyed homeland from the ground up, How can this be done in light of backwardness? 

Control over the occupied territories is not complete with military presence and economic dominance. There must be cultural and educational dominance, which was, for example, in the conquests 1400 years ago, with religion and the mixture of religion and politics, which produced political Brotherhood and political religious Arabism. Despite the elimination of the Caliphate after the First World War, religious Arabism did not die, and the Brotherhood did not die after its appearance in 1928. Bedouin Arabism, which came with the conquests, is still doing its work, which, in partnership with the Brotherhood, destroyed the projects of the homelands during a record period in its shortness of one hundred years, of which the Baath’s share was two-thirds, The Baath dominated for a long period with different methods, including dictatorial Assadism in partnership with the Brotherhood, which has been unique for about a month and a half in practicing sabotage, for example in education, where the current Brotherhood has canceled the consideration of the Ottoman presence in the region as an occupation, but rather a rule, meaning that the Ottomans did not occupy the country, but rather ruled it, and therefore they must be thanked. They are an internal force and not… Foreign, external, this consideration results in other considerations such as the inadmissibility of describing Jamal Pasha as a butcher, and considering Berlik’s travel a legal matter, even a national duty, the Syrian had to die in the Ottoman wars in the Balkans, and the occupation of northern Syria a few years ago was an internal organizational matter, considering the Ottoman presence a rule and not an occupation, many other repercussions that should be researched in more detail.

The Assad regime tried to perpetuate its rule through physical and psychological oppression to the point of murder and through Article 8 of the constitution, which was theoretically abolished under pressure and remained in practice through deceit, hypocrisy and shortsightedness, Now the Assad regime has been abolished, the Baath has been abolished and Article 8 has been abolished, All of that has been replaced by the Brotherhood and a religious culture that is greatly concerned with the veiling of women and the separation of women from men in public and even private transportation. For example, a daughter is not allowed to sit next to her father in their private car. She must sit in the back seat to preserve chastity and prevent sexual promiscuity with dire consequences. And what if the means of transportation was a truck like a pickup truck!, Here, the daughter must sit in the place designated for the goods, that is, on the box to be loaded as goods are loaded. It is not expected that a woman will be allowed to work as a taxi driver as is the case in the rest of the world, considering that the rest of the world is immoral and infidel and does not respect the immunity of women, which religion has honored with the greatest honor.

The Ba’ath Party’s dominance over education has eroded, and the mullahs of the Islamic Republic of Iran have attempted to replace Ba’athist literature with religious literature, An indicator of this trend was the Memorandum of Understanding between the Iranian Minister of Education and his Syrian counterpart in 2020, which stipulated that the Iranian Ministry of Education would supervise the amendment of the Syrian curricula to align with educational planning, educational content, and the role of the Persian language in Iranian education. Does this mean linking education to the mullahs’ literature? Which has been linked to the state’s religious culture! Where is that in relation to secularism, of which Assad’s Syria is said to be its impregnable fortress? Does the road to “fatalistic” secularism pass through a people or Tehran?!

Syria is facing additional calamities, such as foreign occupations, such as Turkey,. In the areas occupied by the conqueror Erdogan and his Muslim Brotherhood allies, they have absolute military and civil authority. We do not think that the current Turkish government is thinking about the phased nature of the occupation, but rather its permanence, similar to Iskenderun and other areas. In the newly occupied areas, Turkification is taking place by all non-legal means according to international custom, with the welcome and support of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose only concern is reproducing the Caliphate, even in its Ottoman form. The Brotherhood did not ask     themselves the following question: What comes after Erdogan! All international political indicators confirm that Erdogan’s future is behind him, meaning that there is no future for him and his party. Erdogan is internationally rejected, politically isolated, and economically crumbling. He is committing suicide and slaughtering Turkey with him.  

The Syrian existence as a state is threatened, whether east or west of the Euphrates, north or south. All occupation practices, despite some partial differences between them, aim to eliminate Syria and divide its remains. Here a very important question arises urgently: What is to be done? We admit with painful humility that we cannot answer this question scientifically, We remind the honorable reader that this article was first published on 06/10/2024 on this page and on syriano.net