New Post-Assad Syrian Constitution Enshrines Islamic Sharia Law
15th March 2025
The hardline Sunni Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took over Syria, with the backing of external powers like NATO-member Turkey, and likely backing of Western countries such as the United States.
On Wednesday HTS leader and self-declared President Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly Abu Mohammad al-Jolani: his ISIS/AQ name) signed a new declaration of an interim constitution.
A committee of HTS appointees produced it (or at least a partial draft) in a committee, and it clearly makes Islamic or Sharia Law the new law of the land.
It ought not to be necessary to point out that, under Sharia law, Jews and Christians are about the same status as black people under the Jim Crow laws.