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The world, its politicians, and the media remain silent – dead silent – about the events in what I now call the former Syria. Syria is being Balkanized; worse, it is being ethnically cleansed – at least, that is the goal – just like Palestine.

Since December 2024, following the fall of President Assad’s government, a spiral of violence, ethnic cleansing, murder, and retribution has unfolded. Western media and mainstream Arab outlets, often dominated by Sunni perspectives like Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, stay silent or dismiss the ethnic cleansing as mere battles against the last remnants of resistance from former President Assad’s government.

Of course, they do not reveal the truth: that the so-called rebels, branded as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Al-Qaeda) and now ruling Syria, are in fact ISIS. Yes, ISIS is back – they never truly left Idlib – and they wield their Sunni faith as a weapon of terror, much like Zionist settlers (many of them American emigrants) do in Israel.

They use religion as both a weapon and an excuse to destroy anyone they deem infidels, dissenters, or oppositionists – you name it. These are radicalized, indoctrinated groups beyond dialogue. The only remaining options are extermination or being exterminated. We have seen this in Syria, as we did earlier in Afghanistan and Libya. We have witnessed attacks worldwide, often targeting ordinary civilians, carried out in the name of Allah, God, or Yahweh with brutal, medieval savagery.

The ethnic cleansing of Alawites and the expulsion of Christians began on March 8 this year in places like Ma’aloula and Sednaya, continuing now in the so-called “Valley of the Christians.” The Alawites protested mass dismissals and inhumane living conditions – jobless, penniless, starving, and ultimately facing death. In response, the terrorists in Damascus, led by Al-Julani (who has since occupied the Presidential Palace with his gang), began systematically murdering Alawites under the guise of their “security apparatus.”

As a reminder, I cite the findings of Marat Imankulov, Secretary of the Kyrgyz Security Council, who stated in February that “according to some estimates, up to 20,000 foreign militants are joining the Syrian security forces.” These figures are conservative. Terrorists are now flooding into former Syria from across the globe, aiding in the ethnic cleansing of its native inhabitants – all to establish, with Turkey’s help, a new caliphate rooted in medieval ideology.

The Middle East is being thrust back centuries in time. If Europe and the rest of the world allow this cancer to spread, they will soon face the need to arm themselves against this new caliphate. Like the Emirate of Córdoba – which became the Caliphate of Córdoba in 929 – this Arab-Islamic state, ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031, once dominated southern Spain. They were halted at the gates of Poitiers, but today, the new caliphate’s supporters are already embedded across Europe. The gates were breached in 2015.

Now, the Druze are facing ethnic cleansing. After massacring Alawites and forcing many to flee to Lebanon (where they await European visas alongside their Christian brethren), Al-Julani’s ISIS regime turned this week to Jaramana, the Druze suburb of Damascus. Prominent Druze sheikhs have been executed by the regime’s predominantly foreign security forces. In Sawra Kabira, a Druze village, and across Suwayda province – the heart of Syria’s Druze community – attacks have left thousands dead: young men, sheikhs, women, and children.

Shelling by HTS-ISIS factions has devastated homes in Druze villages across As-Suwayda Governorate. Local sources report mortar and artillery strikes on residential areas, displacing families and causing extensive damage. Official casualty numbers remain unconfirmed, but reports indicate high civilian deaths and widespread panic. Key figures like Hussam Warwar, mayor of Sahnaya, and his son Haidar were executed by Al-Julani’s ISIS security forces in a field firing squad.

Footage circulating on social media shows Mayor Warwar in a sky-blue shirt, publicly welcoming and attempting to negotiate with the General Security forces. He even appeared on Syria TV, assuring residents of stability and cooperation with incoming factions. Yet, less than 24 hours later, he and his son were dead – executed by the ISIS-HTS regime.

Meanwhile, Al-Julani’s forces have stormed villages like Fahil, 40 kilometers from Homs, inhabited by Alawites, Druze, and Christians. Their method is consistent: cut off internet and electricity, then slaughter every inhabitant. This happens daily, unreported by mainstream media – a disgraceful negligence.

Meanwhile, the ISIS-controlled SANA state media claims that “Public Security Forces” have been deployed in Al-Sourah Al-Kubra to “enhance security and stability.” Yet their own footage exposes the lie: terrorists bearing ISIS insignia operate as these so-called security forces.

The world’s politicians and elites, however, scent money and power in Syria. The West (and others) now engage with terrorist Al-Julani in his Damascus palace, kneeling at his feet, shaking hands (men only), snapping selfies, and praising his “inclusive” leadership. The French, ever eager for a colonial venture, have already struck a deal: Syria’s General Authority for Land and Sea Ports (retaining old governmental structures) signed an agreement with French company CMA CGM to manage Latakia’s container terminal. Latakia is back in French hands.

Or consider the Italians, who may soon vacation in the new caliphate. Will they visit the Alawite, Christian, and Druze villages where massacres unfold? Will their women veil themselves, as required? Or will they play along, as Hitler did in 1936, erasing all evidence of impending genocide?

Turkey, of course, offers unconditional support to its ISIS proxy in Syria. It was Turkey (coordinating with Israel) that enabled the “Blitzkrieg” that annihilated Syria’s former army in 24 hours using drones and Western, American, Turkish, and Israeli weapons. Why didn’t Syrians resist? They couldn’t – just as Jews in 1933–1945 were stripped of everything before their men were executed.

For Turkey, this also solves the Kurdish “problem.” The Kurds are next on Al-Julani’s hit list, per Ankara’s orders. Kurdish self-determination has never been an option for Turkey – history proves that. And as for Western aid? The U.S. has betrayed the Kurds repeatedly. As the late Kissinger said: “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

Soon, we will likely witness the attempted extermination of the Kurds. In Turkey itself, they have long been targets. Unrest simmers nationwide, suppressed by Turkish media – yet protests persist, and hundreds, Kurds and secularists alike, vanish into prisons.

This is the tragic reality of the Middle East and West Asia. Old European colonial powers sowed chaos, sectarian division, and unrest, as did the Ottoman Empire, which allied with Germany in World War I and later feigned neutrality in World War II while secretly negotiating with the Nazis. Today, Turkey’s duplicity is on full display. The colonial ideologies of Europe and the post-1945 U.S. endure, claiming countless lives in the Middle East – all for the sake of superiority and stolen resources. Secularism was a fleeting dream, now crushed by Western powers and fanatical religious forces controlling what was once Syria.