Syria Is Indoctrinating a New Generation of Terrorists

PELONI:  The more things change, the more they stay the same.  Trump’s promotion of terrorist murdering thug Jolani to lead the new Syria remain as a long term US failure, even if what is being pursued in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran prove otherwise.   It was an unforced error, which was pursued without the slightest effort of forcing Jolani to meet any benchmarks before releasing the sanctions against him, even while his fellow terrorist govt officials have conducted murdering sprees on the minorities of their own country.  So the revelation that such terrorist credos are being pressed upon the youth of Syria should be little surprise to anyone, and it also provides clarity as to long term failures which Washington is prepared to accept in order to achieve short term outcomes.

So Much for Giving Al-Sharaa ‘A Chance’

by Robert Williams  •  Gatestone Institute  •  November 13, 2026

If Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former arch-terrorist, had truly “distanced” himself from terrorism, you would think that grooming Syrian children for jihad (holy war) and martyrdom would not be at the top of his list. Yet, this appears to be exactly what is happening in Syrian schools. Pictured: Abu Muhammad al-Jolani. Photo by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

• If al-Sharaa, a former arch-terrorist, had truly “distanced” himself from terrorism, you would think that grooming Syrian children for jihad (holy war) and martyrdom would not be at the top of his list. Yet, this appears to be exactly what is happening in Syrian Arab schools….

• “From the earliest grades, martyrdom is introduced as having a spiritually exalted status, while jihad is framed as both a moral and military duty tied to defending religion, the homeland, holy places, and the Islamic nation (ummah).” — “The New Syria: Education Under al-Sharaa: Review of Syria’s National School Curriculum, 2025–2026,” authored by The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), August 2026
• “A Grade 8 Arabic Language textbook incites students to take up the fight against Israel for the Golan Heights, encouraging them to view sacrificing their own lives to reclaim this land as a noble and heroic act.” — “The New Syria: Education Under al-Sharaa: Review of Syria’s National School Curriculum, 2025–2026,” authored by The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), August 2026
• In grade 10, students are taught that “joy remained incomplete as long as there remained even one piece of Arab land defiled by the filth of Zionist occupation.” [p 78] The students are furthermore taught, again through poems, to glorify violence and death in the name of “Palestine”….. — “The New Syria: Education Under al-Sharaa: Review of Syria’s National School Curriculum, 2025–2026,” authored by The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), August 2026
• Overall, the textbooks present a civilizational hierarchy with Islam reigning supreme over Christianity and Judaism, which must both submit to Islam.
• What does the Trump Administration think al-Shaara is doing? Does indoctrinating children with terrorism and jihad indicate, just perhaps, building the Islamic state that al-Shaara has fought for his entire terrorist career?
• By having taken Syria off the list of state sponsors of terrorism and lifting sanctions, the US will sadly succeed in one thing only: The emergence of yet another radical, jihadist state.
• The Trump Administration would be wise put Syria right back on it.

In August, the Trump Administration removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. It had also previously lifted sanctions “to create a new relationship between the United States and Syria.”

“These actions were all taken in recognition of the positive actions taken and further commitments by the Syrian government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa to fully distance Syria from acts of international terrorism,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the time.

If al-Sharaa, a former arch-terrorist, had truly “distanced” himself from terrorism, you would think that grooming Syrian children for jihad (holy war) and martyrdom would not be at the top of his list. Yet, this appears to be exactly what is happening in Syrian Arab schools:

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