Damascus-Sana
Throughout the bitter decade of the terrorist war in Syria, religion and its men were not immune to the circle of fire burning with the hatred of its makers and its supporters. Religious scholars were those who championed the truth with their knowledge and rejected sedition with their thought and stood up to atonement with their moderation, the martyrs of the word and truth.
Terrorism targeted everyone who stands in the way of his 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, so the religious and patriotic Syrian men were in the targeting circle because of their impact on consolidating the correct values and concepts that terrorism tried to distort and falsify as a scientific anchor And a reference to raise awareness and warn of the conspiracy.
Dr. Al-Bouti pointed out that the martyr Muhammad Saeed Ramadan Al-Bouti was the strong voice of truth through his studies, programs and books, and had an effective impact on educating the nation and warning it against being drawn into the conspiracy. Therefore, terrorist organizations and other clerics targeted him in the context of their attempts to silence the word of truth and strike moderate Islam in the region through Stir up sedition and atonement, but their plans failed under the feet of the Syrian Arab Army and the steadfastness of the people of all sects.
Respecting sects and religions and granting the right to hold religious rites the rights protected by Syrian law according to the law, Ghassan Gharz al-Din, who indicated that Syria presented a model on more than one international occasion 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 of their various sects in Syria represents another face of the truth of the masters of terrorism and their agendas that are busy striking moderation and moderation with the aim of destabilizing the cohesion and unity of its society, as Gharz al-Din explained that Syrian and international law considers this type of crime as assassination and a crime punishable by law, indicating that these organized crimes stand Behind it are extremist international or local organizations, and their implementation is intended to have a negative impact on society, but Syria, with its cohesion and the unity of its people, overcame all the conspiratorial goals I wanted against it.
Terrorist groups targeted many men of knowledge and religion in Syria in conjunction with the start of the war on Syria.
In January 2012, Father Basilios Nassar, the priest of the Archdiocese of Hama, was martyred by the bullets of terrorist groups while he was treating a wounded man in the Jarajmeh neighborhood of Hama .. And in February, Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Sadiq, the preacher of Anas Bin Malik Mosque in Damascus, was martyred by the bullets of terrorist groups .. In the same year Fadi was martyred Haddad, a priest in Saint Elias Church in Damascus countryside, after he was kidnapped by terrorist groups .. In July, Sheikh Abd al-Latif al-Shami, the imam of the Amna Bint Wahab mosque in Aleppo, was martyred after terrorist groups stormed the mosque while worshipers performed Tarawih prayers, kidnapped and shot him later, and in December Sheikh Abdullah Saleh, director of Al-Raqqa Endowments, was targeted by a terrorist group in front of his house in the Al-Diriyah neighborhood of Medina.
In March 2013, the scholar Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Sa`id Ramadan Al-Bouti was martyred in a suicide bombing that occurred in the mihrab of the Al-Iman Mosque in Damascus, killing more than 42 martyrs, students of knowledge, and Sheikh Riyad Adnan Saab, Imam of the Al-Muhammadi Mosque in Mezzeh villas in Damascus, after targeting him with an explosive device planted by terrorist groups in a parked car In front of his house, in May, the imam of the shrine of Mrs. Ruqayya in Damascus, Sheikh Abbas al-Lahham, was martyred in a suicide bombing, and in July, Sheikh Osama Tawfiq al-Asar, the imam of the mosque of the village of al-Qureir in Banias countryside in Tartous, was martyred by the bullets of terrorist groups.
In April 2014, Father Frans Vanderlecht was martyred in the Orchard Al-Diwan neighborhood in old Homs, in the Jesuit Fathers Monastery, by terrorist groups, after the Dutch father spent nearly 50 years in Syria serving the Syrians ... and the last of them was in October 2020, the Mufti of Damascus and its countryside, Sheikh Muhammad Adnan Al-Afyouni, with a terrorist bombing targeting His car to join the ranks of the martyrs of Syria, who wrote with their blood Syria's proud victory.
Maha Al-Atrash
