Syria's Jihadism Triumphs

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The big winner in Syria was not liberal democracy, it was jihadism

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Abu Mohammed al-Jolani was an obscure jihadist in northern Syria until late November .

He fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq and was detained at Camp Bucca , a US prison, where he earned credibility among imprisoned jihadists with a fifty -page document on strategy.

Now that he has achieved this, his next mission will be to establish an Islamic government.

The Taliban executes apostates and adulterers, but they do not proclaim entire groups of Muslims to be apostates.

Jolani 's strategy is to keep his revolution within Syria , disclaim attacks on the West , avoid apostasy charges against other Muslims (such as Alawites , Shi’ites, and Druze ).

If Jolani can deliver unity, stability, prosperity, and tolerance, many refugees may well come home.

He seems to have little interest in the anti-colonial, Soviet -sponsored “ Arab socialism” of dictators like Gamel Abdel Nasser , Hafez al-Assad , and Saddam Hussein , whose regimes quickly degenerated into extractive tyranny by greedy psychopaths.

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