Al-Shara... The Robin Hood of the Syrian People

In a complex political landscape, President Al-Shara has emerged as a figure embodying the traits of the long-awaited "people’s hero" for many Syrians. A revolutionary young man—handsome, modest, and from a social background similar to the vast majority of Syrians—he has become a popular symbol, evoking the collective imagination in a way that resembles a “Syrian Robin Hood.”

What further enhances this symbolic image is his strict religious background, which has reinforced the narrative of victimhood felt by the Syrian majority after decades of rule by a sectarian minority. Even the “Umayyad” title adopted by the public to describe him reflects a populist longing to -restore- power to those who once ruled the country through religious authority. It echoes a romanticized revolutionary nostalgia for Islamic history—one revived by Al-Shara’s rise to power.

All of these factors point to the need for extreme caution when it comes to calls for overthrowing the regime, especially by any religious´-or-ethnic minority. Such demands could dangerously tear the country apart along sectarian lines, given the deep cultural and political historical crises that led to Al-Shara’s ascent, as well as the collective psychological state of the Syrian majority after years of war and marginalization.

To preserve national unity and avoid descent into sectarianism, chaos, and bloodshed, it is unwise—indeed, reckless—to publicly call for the regime’s fall´-or-chant inflammatory slogans in that -dir-ection, particularly from minority groups. The coming phase, in its natural course, will expose the unfitness of any force that does not respect Syria’s vast cultural diversity and its socially adaptive nature in the face of political changes. In due time, Syrian society itself will reject all forms of extremist thinking, once the moment of historical reckoning arrives.

In this context, no one can dispute the scale of the catastrophe that has befallen Suwayda—from siege and starvation to killing and displacement—or its full right to determine its own fate in a way that preserves its dignity and the integrity of its social and cultural fabric.

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