{"id":9324,"date":"2024-12-22T18:47:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/?p=9324"},"modified":"2024-12-22T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:47:56","slug":"destroying-statue-of-virgin-mary-prior-to-fall-of-al-assad-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/destroying-statue-of-virgin-mary-prior-to-fall-of-al-assad-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroying statue of Virgin Mary prior to fall of al-Assad regime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Social media accounts<\/a> recently posted a video showing a man breaking a statue of the Virgin Mary, claiming that it was in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime. The claim read: \u201cThis is the reality in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime and the takeover of power by the terrorist ISIS member Ahmed al-Sharaa or al-Julani. A Syrian ISIS member attacks Christian shrines in Syria. Syria is lost forever and will not return.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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One source of the claim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Kashif verified the video vai \u201cGoogle Images\u201d tool and found that it is old and the claim is misleading. The video was circulated in October 2013, i.e. before the fall of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime on 8\/12\/2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cmemritv<\/a>\u201d published\u00a0the video on 23\/10\/2013 under the title: \u201cSheikh Omar Raghba destroys the statue of the Virgin Mary in a Syrian village: God alone will be worshipped in the Levant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Screenshot of the website \u201cmemritv\u201d which published the video on 10\/23\/2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Raymond Ibrahim’s<\/a>\u00a0channel also posted\u00a0the video on YouTube on 29\/10\/2013. The video description reads: \u201cAfter invading and occupying a Christian area in Syria, a Muslim cleric declared the supremacy of Islam and Islamic law before destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Screenshot of \u201cRaymond Ibrahim\u201d channel that posted the video on YouTube on 29\/10\/2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Kashif was unable to verify the context of the video and the exact time it was captured, but its old publication confirms that it was before the fall of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime on 8\/12\/2024.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opposition factions<\/a>\u00a0announced on Wednesday 27\/11\/2024 the start of a military operation called \u201cDeterrence of Aggression.\u201d On Sunday 8\/12\/2024, they announced in a statement broadcasted on state television the liberation of Damascus and the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s 24-year rule. The opposition added that all detainees had been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\u00a0the fall of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s rule<\/a>\u00a0on 8\/12\/2024 and Ahmed al-Sharaa taking over the leadership of the new Syrian administration, great concerns were raised about\u00a0imposing Islamic rule in Syria<\/a>\u00a0due to al-Sharaa\u2019s history of joining al-Qaeda led by Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq, and then establishing Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria in 2013, and appearing in an interview on Al Jazeera that year calling for Syria to be run according to Islamic law. Meanwhile, al-Sharaa\u00a0recently conducted an interview on CNN<\/a>, during which he spoke about his vision for a new, moderate Syria \u201cthat accommodates everyone under one umbrella.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources of Claim<\/td>Sources of Verification<\/td><\/tr>
memritv<\/a>

leader<\/a>

Sfouk Alsheikh,<\/a>

a group of young men and women from Syria and Iraq (Syrians)<\/a><\/td>
Raymond Ibrahim<\/a>

Free Kafrbo Current <\/a>

RT<\/a>

BBC<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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