Al-Sharaa exposes his Daesh identity once again
Westerners, Arabs conceal his crimes against Alawites through silence, censorship
What is noteworthy is the silence of the West and Arab leaders in the face of the bloodbath Ahmed al-Sharaa has unleashed in western Syria. Historical experience across different eras, including the modern times, shows that no matter how much dictators attempt to present themselves as righteous, humanitarian, and peace-seeking before the public, circumstances will inevitably arise that strip away their masks. People will ultimately perceive their true nature with absolute clarity.
Recent days have seen the uprising of Alawites in western Syria — in the cities of Latakia and Tartus — create a situation that exposed the façade Sharaa adopted after seizing Damascus. Immediately after taking control of the capital and settling into the presidential palace, he discarded his Daesh attire. Dressed in a pressed suit and tie, with perfumed hair and face, he appeared before cameras, adopting the posture of an ‘advanced liberal democrat.’ He mingled with Arab leaders, interacted with unveiled women, welcomed leaders of various religions and sects, and openly declared freedom for all people regardless of group, ethnicity, religion, or sect, asserting that no one had the right to harm them.
On his first foreign trip, he traveled to Saudi Arabia. Accompanied by his wife — who had also significantly modernized her appearance — he performed the Hajj pilgrimage. With Mohammed bin Salman’s explicit approval, he even entered the Kaaba. The United States waived the $10 million bounty placed on Sharaa for his crimes during his affiliation with Al-Qaeda and Daesh, establishing friendly ties with him. Arab and Western media outlets worked tirelessly to portray Sharaa’s liberal-democratic mask, depicting him as harmless “even to an ant.”
Behind the scenes of this political theater, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorists, alongside Israeli regime death squads, carried out arrests of dissidents and assassinated nuclear and biological scientists in their homes. Alawites were slaughtered wherever found. Sharaa’s crimes escalated to such extremes that Syrian Alawites had no choice but to rise against the HTS terrorist faction. In recent days, they launched a widespread uprising to liberate Latakia and Tartus.
Though Western and Arab cameras recorded these atrocities, their owners deemed it inappropriate to report them or unmask Sharaa’s polished façade. However, the people’s uprising in northwestern Syria achieved this. When HTS tanks, drones, and terrorists began massacring civilians, Sharaa’s true face — that of a bloodthirsty Daesh terrorist and Al-Qaeda murderer — was laid bare once more. Everyone remembered him in his original Daesh and Al-Qaeda garb. The Turkish government, too, became complicit in his crimes.
What remains striking is the West’s and Arab leaders’ silence toward the bloodbath Sharaa has ignited in western Syria. This very silence has crucially contributed to re-exposing the true faces of Western and Arab leaders — the same ones who remained silent during the Zionist regime’s 16 months of war crimes in Gaza yet applauded Sharaa, who falsely declared himself Syria’s president through a military coup. This suppression will not mark the end. By rising up in Latakia and Tartus, the Syrian people have made clear they will never tolerate Sharaa and his Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.
The full article first appeared in Persian in the Jomhouri-e Eslami newspaper.