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The conspiracy
continues… the project of dividing Syria and inciting
sectarian Fitna, despising women, raping girls and divorcing
couples under the pretext of Hisba (when accusing the
husband or the wife of being infidel or apostasy) is still
going on. This is the darkest truth of this day.
I am becoming speechless… It is pity that we have been
stabbed in the face, that our optimism has been kidnapped by
this conspiracy that aims only to divide Syria. It is
becoming clear now that the obscurant thinking embodied in
the "secret" committee is not the only conniver in this
project, the other conniver is the Presidency of the Council
of Ministers that has just declared in a session in the
People's Assembly held on Tuesday 30th of June 2009 (which
president announced just yesterday that the draft has been
frozen) its endorsement to the conspiracy called "Personal
Status Law". The Presidency of the Council of Ministers
declared that it is still working on the draft as a valid
project.
So, the conspiracy continues in collaboration with the
parties of the national and progressive front who kept
silent and the other parties, (with the exception of the
Communist Party "Faisal division" and the National Syrian
Party) through their silence against the project that
legitimizes raping women and girls and drags Syria back to
the jungle law. It seems that the concepts they defend like
justice, freedom, democracy and social struggle are not in
contradiction with the ugliest profanation to the human
rights in the modern history of Syria.
All the organizations that claim defending "human rights"
are more or less acting in the rule of a criminal when they
fail to utter a single condemnation to this conspiracy,
while they speak and speak weirdly every time a person
speaks about politics. They are busy attending conferences
and trying to have a baseless glory. Among these
organizations are: the National Organization for Human Right
in Syria, Syrian Human Rights Organization (Swasiah),
Committees for the Defense of Democratic Liberties and Human
Rights in Syria, and the other "Kurdish" organizations, who
never spoke a single word about this issue as if they
suddenly extinct.
The same goes for all the editors in chief of the Syrian
publications that prohibit the people of the media from
writing against this nation-wide scandal (including those
newspapers that allowed a single or a couple of articles to
be published before closing their black doors: Baath,
Tishreen, Thawra, Al-Watan, Baladna, Saleb wa Moujeb, Sawt
el Shaab…..), and the websites that did exactly like these
yellow newspapers and showed its read face to the world:
Syria News, Sham Press, Al-Jamal,…)
Its is so difficult to find words that matches our feelings
now. That is why we will convey what we think as clearly and
bluntly as the conspiracy was coined.
Prime Minister Mr. Muhammad Naji al-Otari announced that his
presidency (that called for the formation of the secret
committee and sponsored its working throughout 2 years) that
it is still endorsing the project of abolishing the Syrian
constitution, establishing sectarian mini-states, enslaving
women, legitimizing violence and raping girls, legitimizing
religious racism in a clearest ways possible. This proofs
that all statements of the president of People's Assembly of
freezing the draft law was only a trick and a trap that even
ourselves were driven to.
From now on, the Syrian Cabinet is fully and directly
responsible for the working of the secret committee that
drafted this conspiracy, and responsible for the ideology of
Taliban in which it was coined. It is responsible for the
sectarian dress each article was given. It is responsible
for all the violence, discrimination accepted in the draft
that makes Syrian woman a beast for sexual ecstasy and
delivering children.
Mr. Al-Otri said exactly according the Syrian Arab News
Agency – SANA: "Concerning what has been raised about the
Personal Status Draft Law, Al-Otri said that the idea of
amending the current law has been raised three years ago in
the framework of a comprehensive plan to amend and modernize
numerous laws so they match this period. Mr. Otri mentioned
that the Ministry of Justice formed specialized teams to
make a working paper about the amendments that should be
made to the current law, and that these teams has
accomplished its mission by achieving an initial vision for
the amendments."
"Mr. Otri Added that the draft law is still a working paper
and has not been delivered yet to the cabinet and that that
the final draft would be presented to the People's Assembly
so it could be discussed and ratified after all the parties
concerned present their viewpoints."
This needs no comment.
That is why we will round up directly what we think: We
reject this draft altogether.
The Syrian cabinet is fully responsible for this dangerous
conspiracy.
We will not allow the obscurant sectarian ideology "in the
name of Islam" to divide our society to Muslims, adherents
of a revealed religion and Jews…! " to divide our society to
Sunna, Shiaa, Druze,…. We will not allow our women and
children to be slaves to the religious lords whoever are
they and whatsoever tools they have and whatsoever the price
we may pay.
The Socialist Arab Baath Party which is the leading party in
the society and the state according to Article 8 of the
Syria Constitution that says: "The leading party in the
society and the state is the Socialist Arab Baath Party. It
leads a patriotic and progressive front seeking to unify the
resources of the people's masses and place them at the
service of the Arab nation's goals", this party should be
clearly understand that this sectarian divisive draft
contradicts in every article even with the constitution of
the Baath Party which Mr. Otri is member of its national
leadership since 2003.
This party should choose between religious sectarian mini -tates
and enslaving women and raping children, and between the
principles of the party and the basics mentioned in its
constitution.
It should be clear that from now on, all your manipulations
and maneuvers to amend or freeze the sectarian inciting
nature of this black draft are refused, once and for all.
We will work and work and try whatever we can and whatsoever
tools available to unleash and abort this conspiracy and
make every conniver accountable to his/her deeds.
Our dream will continue of a modern Syria, not a Taliban
Syria. Our county is ours and not theirs.
Bassam AlKadi, Supervisor, Syrian Women Observatory (SWO)
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