Late at night, eyewitnesses documented a vehicle belonging to Syria’s General Security forces patrolling the streets of Ashrafiyet Sahnaya following a raid on the town. The vehicle was broadcasting, via loudspeakers, a verse from the Qur’an (Surah Al-Ma’idah, 5:33):
“Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.”
The verse, which speaks of killing and mutilating those who “spread corruption,” was used in a context that suggests a sectarian threat and religiously charged intimidation.
Such use by state-affiliated forces constitutes incitement to violence and violates the principle of religious neutrality in security operations.
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