The New Shariah State in Syria

If you’re an American or a serf citizen of the European Union, the video below illustrates your tax dollars at work.

Our government — the duly elected and sworn-in governing authority of the nation formerly known as the United States of America — is funding, arming, promoting, and purveying disinformation about the murderous barbaric thugs in Syria whose “judicial” activities are chronicled in this French TV documentary.

The effort to install this odious regime as the legitimate government of Syria is a bipartisan one. It is supported by the president and his advisors, plus Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, John McCain, Lindsay Graham, and many other senators and congressmen from both parties.

This is the sad estate into which our country has fallen.

Many thanks to C.B. Sashenka for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Adjusted transcript:

00:04   And now an amazing piece from the situation in Syria
00:08   At the same time the Western powers are mulling over a
00:12   potential military action against the Assad regime…
00:16   This document takes us to Aleppo,
00:20   the second most important city in Syria, which is partially controlled by rebels.
00:24   For the first time you will see sharia courts imposing themselves amidst
00:28   chaos and ruin. This man, who claims to be Al-Qaeda, runs
00:32   one of four sharia courts in the city with methods…
00:36   let’s call them radical. You are about to see some shocking scenes in a document
00:41   …put together by Solomon Cane.
00:49   A man, called ‘Kalashnikov’, a member of the Islamic police force of Aleppo.
00:53   A unit put in place by the rebels.
00:57   He is accompanied by another plainclothes policeman with a black beard…
01:01   and a white T shirt. The two agents are on the hunt…
01:05   for a man suspected of supporting the regime of…
01:09   Bashar al-Assad. “Wait over there!”
01:13   They spotted their target.
01:22   The operation only takes a few minutes.
01:26   The suspect puts up no resistance.
01:30   And he is handcuffed.
01:34   “We are the Islamic police. We are going to take you to the sharia court…
01:38   for interrogation.” This man will give info to them on the…
01:42   Damascus regime. If it’s true, he risks execution.
01:50   The Islamic police
01:54   have given themselves a mission to track down the enemies of the revolution.
01:58   Aleppo has been at the edge of the civil war for more than a year.
02:02   The second biggest city, with 1.6M inhabitants involved in the conflict,
02:06   and the scene of daily clashes between the rebels and the army.
02:14   “The soldiers are right there…
02:18   There on the right.”
02:22   The city is a mass of ruins, severed in two. A third is controlled by Bashar’s troops;
02:27   The remainder passed into rebel hands.
02:31   In Syria the rebels are very divided.
02:35   The Free Syrian Army, the jihadists, are the greatest in number.
02:39   Many of them are members of their own autonomous units,
02:43   each with their own territory (“Allahu Akhbar”)
02:47   Aleppo, …
02:51   facing the chaos, despite the hostility of other rebels, these Islamists…
02:55   are profiting from the absence of any authority to impose their law.
02:59   They present themselves as the ultimate recourse.
03:03   That is the case of this man in black, Abu Suliman. He belongs to the Syrian branch…
03:07   of Al-Qaeda, the group Jabhat Al-Nusra, that fights alongside the rebels…
03:11   are faced with citizens who feel left alone to fend for themselves.
03:16   They (Al-Qaeda) promise to bring order and security to the city
03:20   “All of us, the way we are…
03:24   we should unite and put all our efforts together and bring together all our forces
03:28   to end the actions of criminals and thieves…
03:32   who have looted stores and factories.
03:36   Please let’s shake hands and work together.
03:40   “Understand us. We ask you again,
03:44   …who can we really count on?” (AQ) “May Allah protect and bless you.”
03:48   (AQ) “Come visit us at the sharia court. Come! Let’s go!”
03:52   “Let’s go.” In less than a year…
03:57   the Syrian branch of AQ has already put together four sharia courts…
04:01   like this one here, in the city of Aleppo.
04:05   Protected day and night by armed men…
04:09   The court has the appearance of an isolated camp; it is the heart of…
04:13   the new Islamist power. Abu Suliman…
04:17   is the master of this place. That is not his real name.
04:21   Here, nobody uses his real identity.
04:25   He came to Aleppo a year ago from somewhere else in Syria.
04:29   We don’t know anything more, except that he has a…
04:33   mission to install the foundation of an Islamist society in the city.
04:37   “The world should know
04:41   that the sharia courts in Northern Syria…
04:45   will constitute the heart of the Islamic state, and that, by the grace of Allah…
04:49   we’ll see the day once the civil war is over.”
04:53   Here, there is no penal code. It is sharia, the Koranic law, that is applied.
05:01   The verdict will be rendered by Mohamed Al-Maz here in white.
05:05   The well-known imam in the city of Aleppo. He is also a member of Syrian Al-Qaeda
05:10   He was named the chief magistrate of the sharia court by Abu Suliman.
05:14   The two men allowed us to film them after long negotiations.
05:18   …with instructions to film only certain parts of the interview.
05:22   About twenty people are judged every day.
05:26   The inquiries are handled daily…
05:30   by the prosecutors who are very often exercising their functions for the first time.
05:34   The detained have no right to an attorney. And all methods…
05:38   even brutal ones, are acceptable in order to obtain their confessions.
05:42   This man is accused of looting.
05:51   “You’re lying!” “I swear on the Koran and…
05:55   the heads of my children” “You’re a thief!”
05:59   “On the Koran, I’m innocent!” The tension mounts.
06:03   The head judge makes his appearance in the office.
06:07   “You’re filming here! What are you doing!? Do you want the people in Europe…
06:11   to take us as barbarians!?”
06:15   The judge Al-Maz doesn’t appreciate that we are filming this type of scene.
06:19   We are called into his office for a meeting.
06:23   He doesn’t hesitate to deny what we have just seen.
06:28   “There is no point to relying on force to obtain information. That procedure would be counter-productive…
06:32   If we acted like that, we couldn’t put in place our system of law.
06:36   That is not the solution.”
06:40   The Islamic courts enter all domains…
06:44   including adultery, strictly forbidden by sharia.
06:48   This man is accused of having sexual relations…
06:52   outside of marriage. He is blindfolded and handcuffed
06:56   …no doubt to destabilize him. Aggravating circumstances…
07:00   The prosecutor finds in his (Accused) cell phone, a video…
07:04   not Islamic.
07:08   Are you a Muslim or not? I am a Muslim. (AQ) What does the sharia say…
07:12   When a husband cheats on his wife and fornicates with another women
07:16   The law says that he has to be stoned and if he’s not married, 80 strokes with a stick.
07:20   “By Allah, I know the Koran.
07:24   I swear before Allah…
07:28   I am innocent.”
07:33   If you lie I will flay you.
07:37   The husband is freed the same night.
07:41   The sharia court doesn’t content itself with just applying the sharia.
07:45   The mission is also
07:49   to propagate the message of Islam in the neighborhood.
07:53   It is the role of sheikh Zakaria, the preacher, who joined the Islamic revolution…
07:57   a year and a half ago. Tonight he is accompanied by Abu Anaf, an ex hairdresser.
08:01   The message is ‘Allah’.
08:05   Pool is an activity that the youth engage in…
08:09   in Aleppo. Sheikh Zakaria puts them on their guard
08:14   and invites them to join him at the mosque. “My friends…
08:18   I tell you in the name of Allah that what you’re doing is not right.”
08:22   “What you’re doing Allah does not approve of. This game brings you nothing.”
08:26   Not wanting to alienate the population, the Islamists…
08:30   content themselves for the moment with suggestions. Since February…
08:34   the owner of the pool-hall regularly receives visits
08:38   from the preacher. But he resists. “These games…
08:42   breed hatred in the hearts of man.” (Owner) “You exaggerate…
08:46   these are children. Let them have some fun.”
08:50   “You play, and when you lose, hatred ends up…
08:54   blackening your heart.” “I’m sorry, I’m not convinced…
08:59   “Me, I’m only advising you. That’s all.”
09:03   If the Islamists show tolerance with respect to the population…
09:07   they are intractable when it comes to battling Assad
09:11   Traitors, informants, militants,
09:15   All the suspects are brought before the sharia courts.
09:19   This father is accused by the prosecutor of not denouncing his son.
09:23   His son joined the ranks of the government army.
09:27   “What a dog! How can you…
09:31   send your son to the army of Assad? Do you not see what he is doing to us?”
09:35   (father) I didn’t have anything to do with it. I went to bed and when I woke up he was gone!”
09:39   (pros) “Your son joined Assad and you don’t know anything? (F) It’s four months, but I tried to stop him from going.”
09:43   (P)You encouraged him. (F) that is crazy, Allah is my witness
09:47   (P) I don’t believe you.
09:52   (F) Sir I tell you again. I formally forbade him.
09:56   (P) “I don’t believe you, you are the one who pushed him.”
10:00   (F) He defied my authority (P) If you had convinced him that Assad was a dog…
10:04   he wouldn’t have gone. That terrible regime and you let him go. He is where, now?”
10:08   (F) According to my nephew…
10:12   he joined the military. (P) “I asked you a precise question. Where is he?”
10:16   He’s in Asal, the western part of the city.
10:20   (P) The son of this dog is a criminal.
10:24   This dog sent his son to the army of Assad, an army that…
10:28   kills civilians with planes, cannons, missiles…
10:32   his son fights against us.
10:36   (White shirt) “Like all Muslims who support Assad, your son should be executed along with his family…
10:41   his father, his mother and his sister. (F) Sir. I swear…
10:45   (Pros to camera) stop stop stop
10:49   stop filming now.
10:57   You dirty pig for sending your son to the army of Bashar.
11:01   (F) “I didn’t.” (P) Shut your mouth…
11:05   shut your dog’s mouth.”
11:09   Go up, go up…
11:13   to the left, left,
11:21   Verbal abuse, physical violence…
11:25   and sometimes more again.
11:30   The prisoner is suspected of being an agent of the Assad regime.
11:34   An anonymous denunciation…
11:38   was enough to have him arrested.
11:42   The man denies any association with the powers of Damascus.
11:46   “But sir, no matter if I like Assad or not…
11:50   he never did anything bad to me.
11:54   Whether it’s Assad or another in power, we’re all Syrians.”
11:58   Suddenly they asked us to leave the room.
12:02   A gun shot is heard.
12:06   A few minutes later…
12:11   the suspect comes out. He’s alive. It was a simulated…
12:15   execution. But the man did not confess anything. He was taken…
12:19   to prison.
12:23   In the basement that was converted to a (prison) cell,
12:27   Mohamed was captured…
12:31   while fighting alongside the government army.
12:35   He chose to collaborate. In his notebook…
12:39   he writes down all the info about his…
12:43   former allies.
12:51   The next morning…
12:55   the Islamic police question him about his notes.
12:59   There and there, on the roofs of the buildings there are snipers
13:03   Yes and on that one also.
13:07   Two women are part of the proceedings,
13:11   the mother and wife of Mohamed.
13:15   “How are the girls?” (Wife) Thank Allah, they are well.
13:28   Return to your chair! Don’t make a spectacle!
13:32   In exchange for his confession and a fine of 500 Euros…
13:36   a small fortune in Syria, Mohamed will be free a few days later.
13:40   Yussef…
13:44   refuses to cooperate. Each day…
13:48   there are new interrogations. The man in charge of questioning them…
13:52   is a professional. Abu Bara is a former member of the…
13:56   Assad’s political police. He switched allegiance and joined…
14:01   the sharia court. In his possession, he has documents
14:05   that led them to believe that Yussef is a spy.
14:09   “So how are you able to come and go between the government zone and the liberated zone of Aleppo?”
14:13   Sir, I swear! With the exception of regime agents…
14:17   all people like you who come and go between these two zones…
14:21   (Def) “I swear to you, but I do this every day!”
14:25   Yes I do this every day.
14:29   (I) Listen to what I say…
14:33   “What kind of info are you bringing them?”
14:37   No information! (I) Shhh Don’t interrupt.
14:41   You’re one of those responsible. I have the documents.
14:46   “But if I were one of those responsible…” (I)”Sit down, sit down!”
14:50   “We know that you are cooperating with the regime” Listen to me, shoot me in the field…
14:54   if you have the proof! “Of course we will judge you.”
14:58   But I swear before Allah (I) Listen to me well…
15:02   If you’re innocent and we find that you haven’t killed anyone…
15:06   We won’t execute you. You understand?
15:10   “Just tell me which one you are cooperating with.”
15:14   We want to know if you are doing this, or that.
15:18   “How can I tell you? I can’t!”
15:22   “I don’t know anything!” “Well, we’ll make it so it is possible”
15:26   Your condemnation is without appeal.
15:31   After ten days of interrogation, Yussef still claims he’s innocent.
15:39   The Islamists decided to transfer him to the supreme sharia court…
15:43   of Aleppo. There his sentence will be harsher.
15:55   It is the last time we will see Yussef.
16:00   Because it is impossible to film at the supreme sharia court.
16:04   It is here,
16:08   behind the walls of this old hospital, that he will be executed.
16:12   Condemned to death in this new Islamic justice.
 

2 thoughts on “The New Shariah State in Syria

    • This is the social control the U.K. neoliberal elite would impose on the British peoples, this explains the British Establishment’s attraction to islam, arrogant to the point that they think they will be Shaira immune in the labyrinths of corruption and power.

      • Well, it’s not like those who administer Sharia law now don’t always have a handy exemption for whatever vices they like to indulge in themselves.

        That is the inevitable effect of every totalitarian system, in the end the judges and enforcers always have to be granted exemption from following the rules they impose on everyone else. For many of those who advocate totalitarianism, and for nearly everyone that undertake to administer it, that sharp division between those who dictate the rules and those who are subject to the rules is the entire point.

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