Ali al-Aqabani says: “No one is against Islam, but we are certainly against a religious rule based on specific texts and hadiths.” Reuters adds: “Aqabani, 50, is Muslim himself but said Damascus is ‘diverse in its sects and doctrines.'”
Yeah, it is, and yet everyone knows exactly what the new rulers of Syria have in mind when they say they’re going to implement Sharia. No one has to ask, “Oh? What kind?”
“Syria’s new leaders turn to Islamic law in effort to rebuild Assad’s police,” by Amina Ismail and Khalil Ashawi, Reuters,January 23, 2025:
DAMASCUS, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Syria’s new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s notoriously corrupt and brutal security forces.
Police they brought into Damascus from their former rebel enclave in the northwestern region of Idlib are asking applicants about their beliefs and focusing on Islamic sharia law in the brief training they offer recruits, according to five senior officers and application forms seen by Reuters.
Ensuring stability and winning the trust of people across Syria will be crucial for the Sunni Muslim Islamists to cement their rule. But the move to put religion at the centre of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying to woo, regional analysts warn.
“There are many Syrians who will find this concerning,” said Aron Lund, a fellow at Century International, a Middle East-focused think tank, when asked about Reuters’ findings. “Not just minorities – Christians, Alawites, Druze – but also quite a lot of Sunni Muslims in places like Damascus and Aleppo, where you have a fairly large secular, cosmopolitan population that’s not interested in religious law.”
The religious foundations of the police training are also making Western governments wonder how big a role Islam might play in Syria’s constitution, which the former rebel faction now in power plans to revise, said one diplomat, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter….
Hamza Abu Abdel Rahman, who helped set up the group’s police academy in Idlib before transferring to Damascus, said an understanding of religious matters, “what is permissible and what is not”, is crucial for recruits to “act justly”….
Hundreds of residents took part in a demonstration in the capital, Damascus, in December to call for secular governance and equal rights for women.
“No one is against Islam, but we are certainly against a religious rule based on specific texts and hadiths” – sayings and actions attributed to Islam’s Prophet Mohammad – one participant, Ali al-Aqabani, said when asked about using sharia in policing.
Aqabani, 50, is Muslim himself but said Damascus is “diverse in its sects and doctrines.”…
The head of Marja police station in Damascus, Ayman Abu Taleb, said he was worried that many Syrians would see HTS as extremists and would not accept their rule. But he said he did not understand why their reliance on Islam would be a concern.
“The religion that respects human rights the most is Islam,” he said.
Billy says
This is what Muslims do to help gain ultimate power and control against Non-Muslims and Muslims as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran. Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) as designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:95; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,29,41,49; 88,111,123;49:15 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Fundamentally, Islam is a Terrorist Criminal Enterprise. The FRUIT of Islam is continual WAR, terrorism, discrimination, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, and its Schools. Also, Islam is an Antichrist System terrorizing Israel, Christians, and Non-Muslims. Plus, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law(Quran 98:6-7; 9:29 and more). In Sahih Bukhari(V6,B60,N80), Abu Huraira narrates, “‘You(Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised for mankind.’ means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them[Non-Muslims] with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam[see Quran 3:110].” See also Quran 69:30-32; 3:151.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous, Muslim war against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam as Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Islam promotes a terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Deceitful Allah promises Heavenly Paradise to Muslims for acts of Muslim killing in a terrorist war against Non-Muslims and hypocrites when Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”
John T R Gorman says
Police captain Taleb says, “The religion that respects human rights the most is Islam,”
Thank you, Robert. I haven’t laughed that hard in years.
John
Billy says
Muslims use Sharia, Islamic Law, to further help gain more power and control over the people including Non-Muslims. This is why Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Organization against ALL Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:95; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,29,41,49; 88,111,123;49:15 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Fundamentally, Islam is a Terrorist Criminal Enterprise. The FRUIT of Islam is continual WAR, terrorism, discrimination, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, and its Schools. Also, Islam is an Antichrist System terrorizing Israel, Christians, and Non-Muslims. Plus, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law(Quran 98:6-7; 9:29 and more). In Sahih Bukhari(V6,B60,N80), Abu Huraira narrates, “‘You(Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised for mankind.’ means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them[Non-Muslims] with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam[see Quran 3:110].” See also Quran 3:22,151; 69:30-32; 98:6.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous, Muslim war against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam as Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Islam promotes a terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Deceitful Allah promises Heavenly Paradise to Muslims for acts of Muslim killing in a terrorist war against Non-Muslims and hypocrites when Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”
Islam champions Muslim acts of slaughter against Non-Muslims for not becoming Muslims as Allah in Qur’an 8:12 says, “When your lord revealed to the angels: ‘I am with you so make firm those who believed[Muslims]. I will cast a terror into the hearts of those who became infidels[Non-Muslims]. So strike above their necks(decapitation), and strike off(chop off) every finger from them.’”
somehistory says
“winning the trust of the people..” Sure. Absolutely.
And the women are all dressed for the celebration of getting to wear the ugly scarves which are so “empowering.”
assad had an iron fist. Just as saddam had in iraq.
that ‘arab spring’ back when bo was fooling around pretending he had been elected, released the tight controls over the otherwise uncontrollable mozlum mobs.
The evil gift that just keeps on giving.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The only negatives of Saddam and the Assads were that they were aligned w/ the Soviets during the Cold War, and in Bashar Assad’s case, w/ Russia now. Otherwise, the type of regimes they had are exactly what would have comported to our interests there, sans Israel
Now Iraq has a regime which, though not a stooge, is very neutral towards Iran, while Syria has one that is a complete stooge of Turkey. Aside from one making the country the next Afghanistan
Hudders. says
The article picture looks like every high street in a town or city in Northern England today.
Just like the Syrian leaders, the UK now hyas nearly 100 so called sharia courts operating openly & without any push back from authorities.
Large areas of once great Britain are now foreign enclaves, where sharia IS the law of the land & non muslims enter at great risk.
The Caliphate cancer is not only found in the sun baked stinking sand pit of Syria.
Europe & the UK are also being eaten from the inside out by the rabid multi cultural trojan horse & the sight of refuse bag wearing muslim death cultist women, is just one of many signs of the nightmare unfolding.
When will enough finally be enough?
skeptiker says
“Die Religion, die die Menschenrechte am meisten respektiert, ist der Islam.:
Ha,ha,ha ha.. Das muss man ihnen lassen, Humor haben sie.
Darum sitzen solche Gestalten auch im UN Menschenrechtsrat.
Willkommen in der Clownswelt.
jule says
Islam is a Warlord movement to conquer and take complete control of its members to do the dirty work for them….but they pretend their Goverment is really run by Allah and his commands as they interpret them.