Regardless of the qualitative educational risks, especially with regard to the occupation, particularly the Turkish one, Turkish-Ottoman school students are now being indoctrinated, In the case of Iran, it was mullah-religious before the deportation of Iran and the Iranians,Before addressing the qualitative educational problems with regard to the occupation, it is necessary to recognize the overall catastrophic scale of the civil war, especially in the field of education. Anyone who wants to recognize this scale should refer to United Nations reports such as UNICEF. In 2019, UNICEF presented  a report that included a lot of shocking catastrophic information.

The report stated very briefly that the number of internally displaced children reached 2.6 million, and the number of refugee children in neighboring countries is more than 2.5 million, About 40% of school infrastructure was severely damaged or completely destroyed due to the civil war, More than two million children inside Syria, that is, more than a third of Syrian children, are out of school, while 1.3 million children face the risk of displacement!

These numbers are terrifying and portend a future catastrophe, represented by generations deprived of education, thus making the spread of ignorance, illiteracy and backwardness inevitable, while these generations are expected to rebuild the destroyed homeland from A to Z. How can this be done in light of backwardness, ignorance and extreme poverty?

Control over occupied territories is not complete with military presence and economic dominance; cultural and educational hegemony is essential, This hegemony was exercised by the conquests 1440 years ago through religion and the fusion of religion and politics, producing political Islam and religious-political Arabism, Despite the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate or Sultanate after World War I, religious Arabism, which advocated submission to the Ottomans, did not die out even after its defeat in the early 20th century, The Muslim Brotherhood flourished after its inception in 1928, and the Bedouin-influenced Arabism that arrived with the conquests continues its destructive work in partnership with the Brotherhood, dismantling national projects within a remarkably short period of a century, The Ba’ath Party was responsible for two-thirds of this destruction. The Ba’ath Party held sway for a long time through various methods, including the Assadist dictatorship in partnership with the Muslim Brotherhood. Then, with the Golan Heights’ ISIS-affiliated group monopolizing power since late 2024, the Golan Heights has been unique in its practice of economic and cultural sabotage, particularly in education, Education, where the Al julanism abolished the view that the Ottoman presence in the region was a colonial occupation but rather a rule, meaning that the Ottomans did not occupy the country but rather ruled it, and therefore they should be thanked, as they are an internal force and not a foreign external one, This view leads to other considerations such as not describing Jamal Pasha as a butcher and abolishing the Day of the Martyrs, and considering the forced conscription as a legal matter rather a national duty, that the Syrian should die in the wars of the Ottomans in the Balkans, and the occupation of northern Syria some years ago was an internal organizational matter, because the view that the Ottoman presence was a rule and not an occupation has many other repercussions that should be discussed in more detail.

The Assad regime tried to perpetuate its rule through physical and psychological repression, even to the point of murder, and through Article 8 of the constitution, which was theoretically abolished under pressure but remained practically through deception, hypocrisy, and shortsightedness. Now the Assad regime has been abolished, the Ba’ath Party has been abolished, and Article 8 has been abolished, and all of that has been replaced by the  Aljulani   and a religious culture that is very concerned with veiling women and separating women from men, for example, in public and even private transportation, 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 mixing with undesirable consequences, And what if the means of transportation is a truck, like a pickup truck? Here, the daughter must sit in the space designated for goods, that is, on the box, to be loaded like goods, It is not expected that women will be allowed to work as taxi drivers, for example, as is the case in the rest of the world, on the grounds that the rest of the world is immoral and infidel and does not respect the sanctity of women, whom 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. One indication of this trend was the 2020 memorandum of understanding between the Iranian and Syrian education ministers, which stipulated that the Iranian Ministry of Education would oversee the modification of the Syrian curriculum to align with Islamic educational planning, educational content, and the role of the Persian language in education, This effectively links education to the mullahs’ literature, which is tied to the culture of the religious state. How does this relate to the secularism that Assad’s Syria was supposedly a stronghold of? And must the path to “predestined” secularism pass through Qom or Tehran?

Syria is suffering further calamities at the hands of foreign occupations such as Turkey,In the areas occupied by the conqueror Erdogan and his Golan allies, military and civilian authority has been usurped completely, We do not believe that the current Turkish government is considering a phased occupation, but rather its perpetuation, similar to Iskenderun and other areas, In the newly occupied areas, Turkification is being carried out by all illegal means according to international norms, with the welcome and support of the al julani, whose only concern is to reproduce the Caliphate, even in its Ottoman form. The  al julanisten  have not asked   themselves the following question: What comes after Erdogan? All international political indicators confirm that Erdogan’s future is behind him, meaning that he and his party have no future, Erdogan is internationally rejected, politically isolated, and economically collapsing, He is committing suicide and is taking Turkey down with him,What will the Aljulani do then?  

The very existence of Syria as a state is severely threatened, whether east or west of the Euphrates, north or south. All occupation practices, both by external forces and by internal colonial powers, aim to dismantle Syria as a state and divide its remnants with neo-Ottomans, Here, a crucial question arises urgently: What is to be done? We acknowledge, with painful humility, that we cannot answer this question scientifically. However, it seems that Syria, which has been a colony for fourteen centuries, will remain so for an indefinite period.