Syrian Opposition's Misconduct Saga: The Political Vandalization of Civil Activism By Madaniya

The new Syrian political/civil platform called Madaniya is a further and even advanced misstep to be added to the continuous series of mistakes by the Syrian opposition, so-called Syrian opposition or agent Syrian opposition. Apart from the entire absence of transparency and democratic mechanisms in governance, which usually leads to corruption and mercenariness, that characterize the vast majority of the Syrian opposition's institutions and entities, Madaniya is making a fatal precedent. 

Madaniya is a political entity or an entity with political goals, as stated in its official documents, with a structure and shape of an umbrella for pre-set Syrian civil society organizations. Even though its official literature and rhetoric is causing a lot of confusion about the type and job of this ambiguous institution, the unfortunate and deliberate mix between the civil and political domains can only achieve one end that is to vandalize the both of them, especially the civil domain and activitism.

The civil activitism should only be dependent on and pertaining to the rights-based approach and methodology regardless of the governance system and the type of the government and its applied various and changing political ideologies. Otherwise, it will destroy the credibility and effectiveness of the activist civil organizations along with their moral and ethical significance and respect. The common space between the civil and political activism can be conceived by and defined with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, which should always serve as the premium constitution of civil activitism and work. 

Madaniya's this unfortunate fatal precedent and massive mistake threaten to severely damage the nascent civil society Syrian activism, which is still developing and lacks experience, strength and credibility by turning this civil activitism to political activism and civil society organizations to political parties. This misguided and misconceived transformation is an utter vandalization of the civil domain and its role by moving its approach and work from the 'rights,' which are absolute and unbiased to politics, which is relative, ideological and cynical interest-motivated activity. 

I would call on all Syrian civil organizations and activists to strictly stick to rights-based approach and methodology, and the sponsor of Madaniya platform to correct this massive misstep and establish a political party. 


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