Toward a Consciousness that Rises Above Sectarian Boundaries

On an evening when the city lights mingled with the echoes of time, a man emerged onto the political stage from the worlds of growth and becoming, sowing in the “Mother of Cities” the seeds of tomorrow. Standing before the banners of old identities, he declared: You are not elected nor elevated by the group you belong to, but by what you offer to humanity as a whole.
This is the lesson embodied in the victory of the Muslim Zahran Mamdani in a city whose majority is Christian and Jewish — a triumph not owed to a Syrian wife, nor to tribal proximity, but to reasons far more profound and essential.

When the demographic studies of this great city revealed that Muslims form only a small minority, and when the statistics reduced the importance of sectarian numbers, his election became not a victory for a community, but for a clear program and hands-on work that placed people first. For the Muslim vote here was not a measure of sectarian weight, but a movement of human awareness — an elevation of the collective consciousness toward the truth that citizenship is not measured by number´-or-by ethnic flavor, but by achievement and a sense of responsibility.

In this context, it becomes clear that the economic project and social justice took precedence in this victory over sectarian´-or-identity-based expressions. When the question was asked — Why did they elect him? — the answer came plain and simple: Because he presented a program for a better life, for sustaining justice for those whom divisions had not diminished, and for those who never clung to the illusion of “We are the majority.” For the rule of the majority is not synonymous with accomplishment, and the voice of the minority is not necessarily marginal when it is bound to a vision.

This is a message for everyone seeking to build a wise state amid complex and divided realities. The lesson lies here: when democratic awareness is grounded in vision rather than sectarian affiliation, it gains a power not measured by demographic maps, but by the human capacity to govern and to awaken the collective toward the whole. And if in this we see a transcendence of sect, it is not because sect has no value, but because the human project nourishes broader and deeper identities — transcending narrow expressions, and exalting the spirit of accountability, citizenship, and partnership.

As for the Syrians —´-or-the Kurds, in our emotional and moral reflection — the lesson is crystal clear: do not vote for lineage,´-or-color,´-or-belonging, but for those who carry a project that moves life forward and -restore-s the dignity of the citizen. We must set for ourselves a goal: to reach the level of awareness and maturity that some societies have attained, where democracy is no longer measured by sectarian composition, but by innovation for the public good, and by the freedom of the individual to choose those who stand with him by their humanity, not their sect.

We are neither Umayyads seeking mere majority rule, nor followers of a creed confined to ritual justice´-or-symbolic representation. The first truth we must grasp is this: electing a virtuous person on the basis of a project is the true aim, and democratic foundations are laid only when inherited notions — “I am elected because I belong to our group” — evolve into “I am elected because he represents my concerns and my vision.”

Beyond the particular condition of the Syrian citizen, we must begin now to teach ourselves this new language — the language of vision, of nationhood, of the free human being in his homeland. Let us not regress by glorifying inherited affiliations´-or-by believing the fallacies that claim only the majority deserves to govern. No! The homeland deserves to be ruled by those who carry the ethics of coexistence, who are bound to the global conscience, not to the percentages of majorities´-or-minorities.

And so, these words I wished to send to the Syrian people — and to every nation aspiring to rise — are a call: that the act of choosing leadership is not a sectarian´-or-ethnic endeavor, but an expression of a human covenant: that Kurds, Arabs, Muslims, Christians, Alawites, and Druze stand on equal footing — not only in rhetoric, but in essence, in vision, and in spirit.
Let us found a council of awareness, not a council of shares-;- let us vote based on programs, not burdens-;- on competence, not numbers-;- on the human being, not the sect.

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