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This is a shit take. Ahmed al-Sharaa renounced al Qaeda years ago and has demonstrated leadership as a moderate who protects ethnic minorities. He aligned with al Qaeda in Iraq in 2003 against the US invasion that most of us were protesting at home
https://thecradle.co/articles/government-forces-commit-nearly-two-dozen-massacres-hundreds-of-field-executions-on-syrias-coast
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250425-syria-president-al-sharaa-open-to-normalising-ties-with-israel-under-the-right-conditions/
https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2025/05/syria-arrests-pflp-gc-secretary-general/
[Among other things], Women Told to Cover Up, Forbidden From Being Outside Without Male Guardian in Syria
Next, you'll denounce these sources, which directly shatter that false eurolib, chauvinistic, ahistoric narrative, as "Assad-ist". If you're eager to to engage in Alternate History, do it in a D&D game or something.