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Stood Tall for a Thousand Years

Louay Safi

To the silly souls who entertain the false hope of being able to force the free to bend the knee,

To the fools who never learn from human history as they continue to believe that their arrogant masters can thrive at the expense of dignified humanity, we say:

You are delusional! You are deranged!

Your masters will fall down and crumble like a house of cards.

But our people will rise to throw away the yokes that were placed on them as they fell asleep.

Our people stood tall for a thousand years and never kneeled except for the Most Merciful.

They will continue to stand upright, as they have always done when facing the narcist and the arrogant, despite what the delusional might think.

louay Safi

Professor of Political Science and Islamic thought at HBKU, Chairman of the Board of the Ain al-Sharq Center for Policy Studies, and Fellow at the Institute for Policy and Social Understanding. He is an advocate of negotiated transition to democracy in Syria and a defender of the civic rights of the Muslim communities in the United States and Europe for over two decades. He served as the Founding Chair of the Syrian American Council, and Member of the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Society of North America and the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy.

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