Syrian Minister's sectarian remarks spark outrage

In the video, the minister categorized Alawite women into two groups: "servants" or "criminals," triggering widespread anger online.

One activist wrote: "According to our esteemed Minister of Culture, our brothers from the Alawite sect are either servants or criminals, with no other options."

Another commented: "The Alawite woman is a doctor, a teacher, an engineer, Your Excellency the Minister of Culture, not a housemaid or someone who benefited from the regime to succeed."

Another user quipped: "Being Minister of Culture is too small for you; you should be the Minister of Trends for the next fifty years."

Another stated: "A shameful, humiliating, and disgraceful leak from the Syrian Minister of Culture. Simply put, the man said if your mother wasn’t a servant in a Sunni household, then you’re a criminal. According to his classification: either you work as an 'honest' servant or you’re a criminal deserving of death."

This statement was seen as an explicit call to violence and an attempt to reinforce a degrading sectarian hierarchy.

These are not the first controversial remarks by the minister. Previously, he stirred debate when he appeared in a video questioning Syrian children about the poet Abu al-Ala al-Maari in a manner some described as "mocking," especially given the visible signs of poverty on the child.

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