The people of Syria are the victors

It is a truly divine victory, and a great joy that no one could have imagined. The rapid developments in Syria over the past few days, and even hours, have seen major cities liberated, one after the other, including Damascus. The news agencies aren’t able to keep up with the pace of the collapse of the brutal regime of the tyrant Bashar Al-Assad; governments around the world are updating their own positions on what is happening minute by minute.

The revolutionaries have liberated Damascus from the fascist, sectarian regime run by the Assad family since 1971 which has oppressed the people of Syria for more than half a century, spreading corruption, injustice and tyranny across the land. Prisons have been opened and the prisoners released, some of whom have spent over 40 years behind bars. They were taken there as young men and are now old and frail, having endured physical and psychological torture, humiliation, degradation and oppression that would make even a child’s hair turn grey. Their lives should teach all Arab rulers a lesson, but they are themselves too arrogant and corrupt to learn.

The people of Syria have paid a heavy price for their criminal regime.

It has killed more than a million citizens, displaced 15 million others, and arrested and tortured tens of thousands. The revolutionaries have come across mass graves, and more are expected to be found, filled with those who were forcibly disappeared.

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It was at dawn on 8 December, 2024 that the Assad regime fell and was dumped in the dustbin of history, along with the now ex-president’s criminal gang who humiliated Syria and its people for decades. Damascus has been returned to the Syrian people on a truly great day, equivalent to the conquest of the ancient city in 643 CE.

This was the day that the Iranian mullahs’ project in the Arab world was broken. Umayyad Damascus did this on behalf of the entire Ummah, which is significant, because the city was the capital of the Islamic Caliphate for centuries. Syria is not the only place to be liberated; the Arab and Islamic world has also been liberated from Iran’s sectarianism. We hope and pray that Syria has turned the page on slavery forever and begun a new era of dignity and pride.

The Syrians were joined in the celebration of the success of their revolution by all of the Arab people, who raised the old flag of Syria as it was before the Assad family changed it. And why not? We are one Ummah and we share in each other’s joy and sorrow. We share faith, culture and language, and were only divided by colonialism after World War One which saw the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the territories of which was divided into nation states, kingdoms and emirates.

A billboard bearing a picture of Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on 30 November 2024 [OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images]

Imperialist agents were appointed to serve their masters in the West at the head of these ersatz entities.

These agents looted and stole the wealth of the countries and the people, thinking that they would always be protected by the coloniser; they did not think that there would be a day when the tables would turn, truth would prevail and they would face justice.

Syria’s moment of truth has arrived, and the butcher Bashar, who stole and looted Syria and ruled his people with an iron fist in order to stay in power, has flown with his tail between his legs to his erstwhile protectors in Russia rather than the Iranians. He was abandoned by both in Syria and they left him exposed without any cover. It is God’s law on earth, and God’s law cannot be changed.

I congratulate the Syrian people and the entire Ummah. May it be a good omen for the liberation of all Arab countries from the tyrants who are suffocating the people, including Palestine, God willing. The presence of these tyrants, who guard the borders of the Zionist entity, prevents Palestinian liberation. The tyrannical regimes won’t liberate Palestine; they have been planted in the region by colonialists in order to protect their illegitimate apartheid entity in the heart of the Ummah.

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