Explainer: “Religion is the energy of liberation” – Islam in NES
Rojava Information Center interviewed figures and structures associated with Islam in North and East Syria. They included members of the Democratic Islam Congress and Delal Khelil from the Council of Religions and Beliefs, both structures which RIC previously interviewed in 2020. RIC also spoke to Sheikh Murshid Khaznawi, the son of Sufi Sheikh Maashouq Khaznawi, who was tortured and assassinated by the former Ba’ath government in 2005.