What the Brotherhood did in Syria?

The “national covenant” document presented by the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, which calls for a civil state after the ouster of Bashar Assad, the rights of minorities and women, and a guarantee that democracy in Syria is not exploited by the majority over the minority, is not only a major event in Syria, but it is also evidence of a revolution inside the Brotherhood itself, where a large rock has now been thrown into stagnant Brotherhood water across the region.

The Syrian Brotherhood proved that they have changed, just like it is said that Syria has changed, but they also sent a clear message to their mother organization, specifically in Egypt, as well as to the rest of the Arab world, and the overt and covert Brotherhood organizations in the Gulf. What the Syrian Brotherhood presented in their document was a message of reassurance for all segments of Syrian society, and likewise the international community, but they also killed two birds with one stone, because they destroyed many of the concepts that lead to the Brotherhood being criticized elsewhere.

The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood document means that the state will be motherland, rather than pursuing a concept of abolishing the state, or “to hell with Egypt” as the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt once said. Therefore the state will not be sold, or so we assume, to the General Guide, but rather there will be a social contract between the state and the people, as prescribed by the constitution.

The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood document also means that the religion of God and the homeland are for all, there are no exclusions and no prejudices. Whoever comes to power will have to offer a project that benefits the state and its citizens; the slogan “Islam is the solution” will not help to pay mobile phone bills and it will not open schools, but instead there,must be hard work and dedication, according to a clear vision, through the concepts of peaceful coexistence and communication with the international community. This is how a state is build, and Syria can no longer be an international outcast and an ally of those who live in the basements and caves, such as Hassan Nasrallah and those like him.

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