Syrian Brotherhood: Fighting against Russian occupation is a religious duty

The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria asserted that fighting against what they called the “blatant military occupation” in Syria is a duty on everyone capable of carrying a weapon.

“We, the Syrian Brotherhood, stress that this blatant aggression against our country and our people places Russia alongside Iran as the criminal regime’s direct partners in the killing of our people and the destruction of our country,” Omar Mushaweh, director of the Syrian Brotherhood’s information office, said in a statement to Anadolu.

“The Syrian people see the Russian forces as occupation forces that are involved in shedding Syrian blood. It is the right of occupied people to use all legitimate means to liberate their land and expel the occupiers,” he added.

Mushaweh said Russia is disillusioned if it thinks that it is maintaining interests in Syria through protecting Al-Assad’s regime; this will repeat Russia’s experience in Afghanistan and Chechnya, he warned. He added that MB will continue to fight them as they used to do with Iran and Hezbollah five years ago.

The Syrian MB affirmed, on Saturday, that fighting today is a duty on everyone who is capable of carrying a weapon.

The group called on Syrians of all factions, brigades, ethnicities and religions, to work together to defeat the occupier; saying that homeland must come first not any other individual interests.

The Syrian MB rejected Russian intervention saying that this invasion cannot be justified from a president who lost his alleged legitimacy, protecting himself from an inevitable fall while facing a massive uprising demanding legitimate rights of a decent life like all free nations, not under a false pretext of fighting terrorism, Mushaweh explained.

The statement stressed that Russia has not been a neutral intermediary in the Syrian issue, but it has always been against the Syrian revolution despite it being peaceful in its early stages.