SYRIAN SYNDROME

by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi

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By the term Syrian Syndrome it is my intention to subsume all the social and personal elements affected by the event, and by the term ‘event’ I refer specifically to the wholesale massacre and torture of the Muslim population in the invented geographical zone currently named Syria. So profound and far-reaching are the effects of this catastrophe and so complex, as well as so 
unbearably simple, that it must be examined in detail before taking a final position. Since it has resulted in a situation which goes way beyond its innocent victims and its known executioners so that it a!ects the whole world – nations, institutions, the current world-system of law, heads of state, supra-national allegiances, religious parameters, tribes and individuals, we are forced to break down the event into its separate elements, but never forgetting that the issue is dual – the massacre of the Muslim population and the paralysis of the whole world faced with the crime... 


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