Syria has lost many of religious scholars during war against terrorism

Throughout the bitter decade of terrorist war in Syria, religious scholars were targeted and martyred due to their support of the truth,  their rejection of sedition and their confrontation of the takfiri thought with their moderation.

Terrorism has targeted everyone who stands in the way of its malicious plans, according to the head of the Union of Scholars of the Levant, Dr. Tawfiq Muhammad Saeed Ramadan Al-Bouti, in an interview with SANA.  The clerics were targeted because of their impact on consolidating the correct values and concepts that terrorism tried to distort and falsify.

Dr. Al-Bouti pointed out that the martyr Muhammad Saeed Ramadan Al-Bouti had an effective impact on educating the nation and warning it against conspiracy contrived against it. Therefore, terrorist organizations targeted him in the context of their attempts to silence the word of truth and strike moderate Islam in the region.

Respecting sects and religions and granting the right to hold religious rites are protected by the Syrian law, lawyer Ghassan Gharz al-Din said. On more than one international occasion, Syria was presented as an example of social cohesion and religious fraternity thanks to the Syrian law that guaranteed freedoms and imposed mutual respect among all segments of society.

The assassination of clerics in Syria represents an example of the terrorism agendas that aimed at striking moderation, destabilizing the cohesion and unity of society. Gharz al-Din noted that Syrian and international law considers this assassination as a crimepunishable by law. Many extremist international or local organizations stood behind the implementation of these crimes to negativelyaffect society. But Syria, with the cohesion and the unity of its people, overcame all the conspiratorial goals contrived against it.

Terrorist groups have targeted many scholars and clerics in Syria in conjunction with the start of the war on Syria.

Inas Abdulkareem