George Banna, Samir Sadek
The inclusion of Islamic law as a primary source of legislation in the 1973 constitution was not a genuine religious stance, but rather a conciliatory gesture towards the Muslim Brotherhood. Within this framework of appeasement, other steps were taken, most notably the sabotage of education through a tacit agreement between the Brotherhood and the regime after 1973, particularly after the Golan Heights took power, Each side had its share in this preemptive sabotage of modernity, as enlightened education was not in the interest of religious fundamentalism, Therefore, these fundamentalists established memorization schools to cultivate blind loyalty to political Islam, The julanism transformed schools into mosques, aiming to instill blind loyalty to dictatorship and superstition, while the Assad regime turned schools into partisan, pan-Arabist dens, Armenians, Kurds, and anyone who was not a Ba’athist or an Assad supporter—whether Alawite, Sunni, or Christian—were forced to repeat the slogan “One Arab Nation with an Eternal Message” several times a day. This slogan effectively erased national identity, The Kurdish, Syrian nationalists, and others, and it was a slogan to revive Arabism and overthrow those who differed from it, The julanism did nothing but worse than what the Assad regime did, The julanism practiced sectarian cleansing in the coast, the south, and the interior, Then it blew up churches and killed dozens of those it called misguided infidels, The julanism was concerned with banning bikinis and imposing burkinis,, It was concerned with young women’s skirts, young men’s shorts, alcoholic drinks, and other things, It failed in the matter of security, freedoms, equality, combating poverty and backwardness, and the rest of the social, political, and economic fields.
The fundamentalist parties in Syria were happy to sponsor al-Bouti, the ambassador of the Islamists to the Assad regime, on the mission of looking after the interests of the Brotherhood, Assad sat on the chair and al-Bouti was under the chair, and for each of them what he wanted within the framework of mutual service, things proceeded according to this structure, until one or both parties felt able to devour the other,Then came the turn of assassinations, and then the Artillery School and the Hama 82 incidents, which ended the partnership with an unknown number of deaths and an unimaginable amount of sabotage and destruction.
Without prior expectation, and perhaps in imitation or emulation of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, etc., a revolutionary movement erupted in Syria, which could have erupted decades or even centuries ago, demanding what the Brotherhood does not demand and what the Assad regime does not want. Here, the intersection of Brotherhood-Assad interests, i.e., the political Alawite Shiite interests with the Brotherhood, reappeared. The interests intersected timidly and without words, i.e., silently. The camouflage of the intersection of interests was also done with mutual insults as a rough language of playfulness, Under the umbrella of rough playfulness, the 2011 revolution was decisively eliminated by the armed ISIS factions in the first place, and by the military wing of this revolution made up of defectors from Assad’s army, As a result, nothing remained on the scene except Assadism and fundamentalism, and the tripartite battle turned into a duality between Assadism and religious fundamentalism.
After the suppression of the 2011 revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood felt close to power, especially after winning many battles against the Assad regime and controlling large parts of Syrian territory until they reached the outskirts of Qardaha, In a few days, the Emir Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, will sit on the throne of the Caliphate, and the Muslim Brotherhood’s dream will be realized! The Muslim Brotherhood waited for years until their dreams came true. Now, the fundamentalist Golan Heights group is sitting on the throne of power to revive the tradition of the Umayyad Caliphate!
The realization of fundamentalist dreams in Syria was not like the conquests of the Caliphs without shedding a single drop of blood, as many falsifiers of history claimed! The arrival of fundamentalism to power cost the country its material and human existence and perhaps its future, The Assad regime occupied the country as an internal colonialism with the help of external forces such as the Iranian mullahs and Hezbollah, and the julanism occupied the country with the help of external forces such as Turkey, then the Uyghurs, Chechens and others, All of this was accompanied by torrents of blood, which reached knee-deep, Previously, rivers were colored red and the people of the Levant and others like the people of India were slaughtered, which is reminiscent of the massacres of 1886, Recently we remember the Rabaa sit-in in Cairo and the burning of 66 churches.
Ancient history was full of events that were bigger and greater than what we have seen recently, Here we want to remember the Umayyad Caliph Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik, then the Abbasid Caliph al-Ma’mun, then Caliph al-Mutawakkil, Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, and others of the monsters, and all the Muhammadan eras up to the Mamluks, the Kharijites, the Ottomans, and the Taymiyyah, then Omar and the Covenant of Omar, There is not enough space to mention everything that happened in past eras, Here we can learn about the culture of the black banners by going back to the historian al-Maqrizi and recently to Hossam Itani and others.
All of this led to the decline of some groups to the point of extinction, Those who did not emigrate before the church massacre will emigrate after this massacre, and thus the Christian presence will completely end in this region, and the chapters of a phase that lasted about 1440 years will end, not only in Syria and Iraq, but also in the rest of the countries that call themselves Arab, Those countries have earned this name, which symbolizes a lot of savagery, meanness, and backwardness.
The Assad regime was exhausted and perished without any significant effort from the Idlib Authority, It was a matter of surrender and handover,The Authority that sat on the chair after the Assad regime was weak because it consisted of dozens of factions that were originally hostile, Thus, the interim Golan presidency became like someone who has no power or strength compared to some factions such as the Abu Amsha faction, despite the formal external acceptance of it.
The first rebels against the authority of the julanism were the ISIS members, who declared the temporary julani to be infidels and declared war on it ISIS wars mean assassinations, such as the assassination of julani, for example, Here, julani was subjected to assassination attempts several times, despite several foreign intelligence agencies being alerted to this matter.
We see in the current rule of the country nothing but a continuation of Assadism, which, in its broad outlines, was the republic of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide, Abdul Sattar al-Sayyid, This allows us to consider Syria, metaphorically, a republic of religious endowments,Even after al-Julani assumed leadership, Syria remained a republic of religious endowments, but a strict one, in terms of its treatment of non-Muslims, as happened in the church, a chapter in what began with the Pact of Umar. Most of these people have emigrated, and less than 1% of the population remains…! Good for them…!