The coming new Syria, the demand to renounce sectarianism and establish equal opportunities

The current Syria, whose people are struggling to build a civil, democratic, pluralistic state, needs to establish new values. These values, before the rise of the Baath and Assad regimes (father and son), were part of the psychological and intellectual formation of the Syrian people.

The values ​​of coexistence, equal opportunities, and relations of national belonging were prevalent values ​​in the Syrian society, which consists of multiple ethnic, religious and sectarian components. This society was developing intellectually, scientifically and economically in line with its human needs. The state is a pot that accommodates all these components naturally and simply.

After the rise of the Baath, the process of consolidating the nationalist ideology by force began. This is a matter that harmed Syrian patriotism, and prompted the feeling of some of its ethnic components of injustice. As Arabization was imposed on non-Arab Syrians, which made them fall into the category of recluse to protect the ethnic self, and then work to resist this Arabization in a peaceful politician working. Perhaps the most important witness to this is the Syrian-Kurdish component.

The rise of al-Assad the father to power in November 1970 represented a new stage of tampering with the simple national fabric in the country. Assad claimed to be a protector of religious and national minorities, at a time when his policy was pushing the members of these minorities to migrate from the country in order to avoid his multiple tools and goals.

Al-Assad’s father tampered with the unity of the Syrian components based on different rules. Instead of urbanizing the Syrian countryside, he did the opposite, that is, making the economic movement linked to the cities without allowing the development of industries and services in the countryside. This led to the urbanization of the cities instead of the urbanization of the countryside.

Al-Assad the father tampered with the components of the clans. He encouraged the fragmentation of these clans by creating clan rivals for the traditional tribal and tribal sheikhs, whose word was heard, which put the clans in a state of competition and social conflict that tore the unity of these clans in order to control them easily after being torn apart.

This destructive Assadist method was followed by Assad the father with ethnicities and sects, so he proceeded to further encourage divisions in society and its components, in order to facilitate his rule through his devices controlling the people, whether they belong to unions, parties, or different components.

In order to increase his ability to control Syrian society in all its categories, al-Assad intentionally spread ways to obtain bribes, and steal public money in various ways by buying loyalties by allowing looting under his control. When the corrupt looter of public money rebelled, he is confronted with his corrupt record, and this makes him vacillate between loyalty under fear of imprisonment, penalties and scandal, and choosing an independent path that will lead him first to prisons in the weakest cases.

The deepening of the generalization of corruption practiced by the authority of the House of Assad, has led to the creation of a suitable soil for the poor competition among the regime loyalists. This competition took the form of economic conflicts based on the black-market economy, and the form of political conflicts represented by more waste of natural social values ​​in favor of generalizing the values ​​of lies and extreme exaggerations. This paved the way for the cheap promotion of the concept of the “leader father”, whose knowledge encompasses everything related to people’s lives, and at the same time created waste of values ​​and government and social corruption into a gradual consolidation based on rejecting the corrupt regime and thinking of revolution against it and salvation from its sabotage and tampering with the Syrian state and society.

The Syrian revolution, which was born on this rubble of political and social oppression, was a revolution that wanted to restore the historical moral values ​​of the Syrian people, and this makes us bear in mind that the conflict between the Syrian people revolting against the regime of oppression, tyranny, oppression and social discrimination, and between the Assad regime is a conflict between two different models. It’s a conflict between people who wants to enshrine the values ​​of justice, equality and equal opportunities, and a regime that does not recognize the constitution or laws, as it considers itself higher than everyone else.

Restoring wasted values ​​and rebuilding them nationally needs a young Syrian generation of both genders. These values ​​are considered the equilibrium of their life and development. The more the scale goes down without increasing the concentration of these values, the more difficult the opportunities for community development are and, the closer to failure.

The young generation that was born and lived through the experience of asylum, displacement, killing and destruction is the generation with whom the process of building society morally will begin. This generation has been stigmatized by the fire of asylum, oppression, and governmental and non-governmental corruption. Therefore, it is closer to carrying the program of profound change for Syrian society and its current prevailing values.

Building real Syrian civil society organizations involves adopting these tasks as chief goal and longing vision. Which is what prompting a Syrian American organization called “Syria Freedom Path” to shoulder with the Syrians to implement rehabilitation and assistance programs for young people of both sexes to play this great role.

Eliminating the Assad regime’s tyranny, oppression and corruption requires building this generation, which is not an impossible task, but it requires the concerted forces of national change to build this generation by providing it with knowledge and science and by deepening the great moral values ​​of Syrian society, which are based on non-exploitation and social and political injustice. A society with strong feeling of belonging and patriotism that is based on the values ​​of equality between individuals before the law without racial, religious, sectarian or regional discrimination.

It remains to say that human history is not a history of looting, killing and corruption, but rather the history of building civilizations that the land of Syria has witnessed since the dawn of time.