There is a fatwa for genocide. I am not exaggerating. The Supreme Fatwa Council of the Syrian Arab Republic—an official body under the Assad regime—has issued a religious decree commanding all Syrian Muslims to slaughter the Druze. This is not metaphor or symbolic rhetoric. It is an open, unequivocal call for ethnic cleansing against a minority that for centuries has lived peacefully across the Middle East. And yet the world remains silent.
As I write this, tanks and artillery are crushing Druze villages in Suwayda. I have seen graphic footage out of Syria showing families dragged into the streets, humiliated and butchered. Fathers and grandfathers have their beards forcibly shaved from their faces, stripping them of an essential symbol of their culture, faith, and manhood. Women and children huddle in despair—pillaged and bomb‑scarred homes loom behind them, smoked ruins and broken doorways bearing witness to unspeakable cruelty. I have watched these videos in horror, and still there is a deafening lack of outrage from the global stage.
Yet the same people who flood social media feeds with 🍉 watermelon emojis and hourly condemnations of so‑called “genocide” in Gaza are now the most hypocritical of observers. When an actual genocide is occurring—documented, videoed, and live-streamed—they remain silent. I do not blame the victims; I blame the performative activists who wield fake empathy like a weapon. They do not care about human life, only that narratives can be spun to feed their anti‑Israel rage and bolster their virtue‑signaling.
All the while, Israel—yes, Israel—is the only country to intervene. In the face of a state‑sanctioned fatwa calling for Druze extermination, Israeli jets struck Syrian regime targets moving toward Druze towns. For this, Israel is labeled an aggressor. Its soldiers are blamed, even though their actions have saved countless Druze lives. That is how twisted today’s world has become: defending victims is punished while slaughtering them is ignored.
This is not hyperbole. It is genocide with religious and ethnic intent. The Association of Druze Reservists and Veterans submitted a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu on July 15, 2025, warning of “an unending series of massacres, kidnappings, looting, and harm to innocent civilians—women, children, and the elderly alike.”
They asked Israel for help and declared that “hundreds of Druze soldiers are ready to immediately volunteer to fight alongside our brothers to save them, even at the price of taking responsibility for the risks to our lives.”
What other people in modern history have demonstrated such unwavering loyalty and courage?
Even that urgent plea was ignored by the media and global NGOs. Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the UN—none have denounced the fatwa, none have demanded accountability. Arab and Muslim leaders around the region have also remained conspicuously silent. For them, the Druze are not useful. Only when a crisis allows them to demonize Jews does their empathy suddenly appear. That is not advocacy; it is ideology clothed in compassion. Christian, LGBTQ, moderate Muslim and non-muslim Druze—they are erased if their suffering does not serve the narrative. I have learned a lot about religious customs or Druze and learned they have their own religion which believes in "live and let live" and because of radical Islam believes the opposite is why radical Muslim want to erase Druze.
Barry Shaw from the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies put it bluntly:
“There is no longer any excuse for al‑Julani, the jihadi Syrian leader, to hide his guilt. This man is a mass murderer, and the world—particularly the soft West—must now bring charges of genocide against him. Where is Trump? Where are the Western leaders who raced to embrace this mass murderer? Why are Arab and Muslim leaders across the Middle East so silent? Why is Israel alone in trying to defend the Druze, and nobody is protecting the Kurds or the Alawites?”
Exactly. Why is it that those who could speak out instead hide? Why is support for genocide allowed to flourish when those being targeted are inconvenient? What does it say about us as a generation that we cried “never again” after the Holocaust, yet today accept genocide by decree and cultivate excuses for it?
I have nothing left but contempt for a generation of narcissists who compile outrage playlists while allowing slaughter to happen in real time. They brandish hashtags, but cannot be bothered to research, to report, or to protest when minorities close the net around them. Courage gone missing; conviction reduced to clicks.
This is October 7 all over again. Just as Hamas massacred civilians and the world turned the page ready to condemn Israel alone, now Druze civilians are dying and nobody dares protest. Media buries the evidence. Politicians cling to narratives. Online activists cheer for the executioners as long as victims are inconvenient. This is the same old story: the world cheers for genocide when victims are not politically useful.
I stand with the Druze. I stand with Kurds, with Alawites, with any group facing annihilation while public attention chases viral causes. I stand with Israel for taking action when all others failed. If defending innocent people is a crime, then yes—I admit I am complicit. I would rather be complicit than silent.
And to my generation: what shame it is to live at a time when cruelty is normalized, empathy is fake, and Genocide is broadcast in pixels while protest is muted in silence. We are failing. We are accepting evil. We must change.
This post is my line in the sand. I refuse to stand silent in the face of genocide. If you want to be part of the solution, you must speak now—with facts, with voices, with action—before it is too late.
I Stand With the Druze – Like Estonia Once Stood With Us
I never thought I would live to see a day when Finland would condemn people defending a peaceful minority. Yet here we are.
While the Druze people are being bombed and slaughtered in Syria, and while Israel steps in to help them, Finnish media sides with the aggressors—again. Also Druze are not only group. Alawites also are under literal genocide but people are too busy to focus on what Chāmās fakes in Gaza to actually see what is happening under their noses.
This is personal for me. And if you understand our own history, it should be personal for every Finnish person.
A Regular Workday – And a Bomb With a Message
After the Soviet-Finnish wars, my father was working a regular earthmoving job, just another ordinary day at work.
He was operating a heavy machine when he suddenly heard a loud, strange metallic thud on the vehicle. He immediately stopped everything and got out to inspect what had hit the underside of the truck.
Buried in the soil was a Soviet aerial bomb that had never exploded.
The area was locked down, the bomb squad arrived, and everyone assumed they were about to defuse a deadly piece of war left behind.
But when they opened it, they were stunned.
There was no explosive inside.
No gunpowder.
Only a carefully hidden note written in Finnish:
“Terveiset heimoveljeltä, seisomme rinnallanne.”
“Greetings from your tribal brother, we stand with you.”
The Estonians had risked their lives to sabotage enemy weapons and secretly help Finland in our hour of need. They also sent everyone they could during the war.
The story what my father found made headlines. All of Finland was moved. We knew who stood with us when we were threatened with destruction.
Now the Druze Face Annihilation – and Israel Stands With Them
Just days ago, in July 2025, the Syrian regime sent tanks and artillery into the Druze region of Suwayda.
They weren’t targeting military bases—they were shelling civilian villages.
Families, elders, and children fled under fire.
The world stayed silent.
But Israel acted.
Not to escalate, not to invade, but to protect the Druze community.
Israeli airstrikes destroyed Syrian tanks and military convoys heading toward Druze towns. These were precision strikes to stop a massacre. This was self-defense, not conquest.
Druze Reservists Sent a Letter to Israel – July 15, 2025
The Association of Druze Discharged Soldiers and Reservists sent a formal letter to the Israeli government, calling for immediate help:
“There is an unending series of massacres, kidnappings, looting, and harm to innocent civilians—women, children, and the elderly alike. We urge you to provide military and humanitarian assistance in defense of our Syrian Druze compatriots.
Hundreds of Druze soldiers are ready to immediately volunteer to fight alongside our brothers to save them, even at the price of taking responsibility for the risks to our lives.”
— July 15, 2025
This letter came not from politicians, but from those who know what it means to stand up for family and they are not alone. Alavites also sent a similar letter to Israel early 2025, mainly March-May 2025:
"In his name, Lord Moses, David, Jesus and Muhammad.
We, the Alawite clerics, issue the following statement after our meeting in one of the coastal villages:
After the fall of the Assad regime and the assumption of power in Syria by an extremist Islamic group that adopts killing, kidnapping, displacement, and intimidation as a method and way to rule and dominate, and after the massacres and violations that occurred in the Alawite areas against their people in Tartus, Latakia, Homs, Hamma, and Damascus, and after the crimes of ethnic genocide with the exception of the State of Israel, which spoke the truth and echoed the truth and condemned these criminal acts.
We declare our demand from the government of Israel, represented by its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to provide protection, assistance, aid and support, because the entire world has been silent about our injustice, and we have only heard a voice from the State of Israel condemning the crimes committed by the Damascus government against the Alawites, and for that we thank it.
We say to the Jewish state, we extend our hands to you and we will be your best and most loyal friends, so that you can rid us of this extremist Islamic rule that will be a place for training and preparing groups from which they will launch their fight against you. In the past, you have suffered from the Islamists and known their crimes, and the treacherous terrorists of Islamic terrorism are the best example of the Hamas movement and terrorism as an example of terrorism and terror. And the Hamas movement is establishing a base in Syria that will be a launching point for action against you.
We demand that the IDF move its planes and forces to protect us.
We ask that the Israeli Ministry of Defense move
its warships and warships towards the coast. - We ask that the Israeli Foreign Ministry raise the issue of crimes against the Alawites at the international level.
- We ask from the Israeli media the readiness to shed light on the massacres being committed against us.
You know that the Alawites have never been extremists, terrorists or heretics, but rather moderate, tolerant and believers in human brotherhood. They do not differentiate between Jews, Christians and Muslims.
We are a minority like you in the Middle East, so let us unite against the Islamic tide led by Turkey. First place then help us say goodbye to this extremist Islamic state. We cannot live with these cruel animals who wear Islam as a cloak.
My sons of David, your origin is gold, and this is what time has proven, help us and we, you are honorable brothers. If you reach the Syrian coast, which is mostly Shalawi, you will be welcomed with songs and flowers. May God bless the honorable State of Israel, its great leaders and its free and honorable people.
We would like to thank Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar for his words about the Alawites and the revenge and harm they are subjected to, something no Arab, Islamic, or international foreign minister has ever done".
Druze Civilians Begged for Help Across Social Media
While tanks rolled in, Druze people inside Syria posted desperate pleas on Facebook, Telegram, and X (Twitter):
The people of Syria called for for help globally in the names of all who they believe is Holy including all prophets of Torah and Qur’an and their god.
They begged for rescue from what they described as slaughter.
Many videos showed homes burning, people screaming, and regime forces looting villages
Still, Western media stayed silent, or worse—condemned Israel for responding.
This is Hypocrisy – And Finland Is Now on the Wrong Side.
We praised Estonia for helping us. We cried at the message hidden inside that dud bomb.
But now when Israeli Druze are defending Syrian Druze, alongside Alawites and Israel steps in to stop a second genocide, Finland condemns them.
Why? Because hatred for Israel has blinded the media and most politicians to the truth.
I Choose the Right Side
I stand with the Druze people and Alawites —minorities who want peace, not war.
I stand with Israel defending a civilian community under siege.
I stand with truth over propaganda, and minorities over jihadist agendas.
Finland used to be a country that honored those who stood by us in our darkest hour. We used to side with those who were attacked and who want to live in peace.
Now is the time to stand with the Druze, just as Estonia once stood with us.
I would also like to add that I saw videos last night of what has now been done in Syria by jihadists. The jihadists of the Syrian regime have slaughtered the entire Sweida National Hospital. Druze and Christian patients, doctors, nurses, women, children and everyone who sought shelter inside have been killed on the spot.
This is genocide committed by the Islamist Syrian government led by Muhammad al-Jawlan.
