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France never had control of [[Syria]], Lebanon, or Beirut as the anti-colonial Marxists' and communists present in American universities and textbooks. France was allows dependent on secular locals who willing volunteered to cooperate with France, and occupied all the positions of the Westetn-style [[civil service]]. These native Arab collaborators viewed the teachers and enforcers of Shariah law as their oppressors.

France never had control of [[Syria]], Lebanon, or Beirut as the anti-colonial Marxists' and communists present in American universities and textbooks. France was allows dependent on secular locals who willing volunteered to cooperate with France, and occupied all the positions of the Westetn-style [[civil service]]. These native Arab collaborators viewed the teachers and enforcers of Shariah law as their oppressors.

Indeed, the modern [[nation state]] of Syria was created in a non-competition clause between the British and French Empires. It would exist as a bureaucracy or so entity otherwise, and was always staffed by secular locals who respecter the rights if foreigners and non-Muslims.

Indeed, the modern [[nation state]] of Syria was created in a non-competition clause of a trade agreement between the British and French Empires. Syria would not exist as a bureaucracy or state entity otherwise (recall, Shariah law does not recognize corporate entities, and secular governments are corporate entities) and was always staffed by secular locals who respected the rights of foreigners and non-Muslims.

This confusion of facts in Marxist propaganda and American school textbooks has led to sone amazing,  outlandish, and incredible dichotomies and claims. In 2014 for example when the [[Islamic State]] was declared, [[Wikipedia]] made claimed that Syria had won its "independence" from France in 1940 when France "liberated" Syria from France. The article has since been cleaned up somewhat, but still leaves more questions than answers for serious students seeking to understand the Syrian conflict, sans Marxist distortion of terms and historical meaning.

This confusion of facts in Marxist propaganda and American school textbooks has led to sone amazing,  outlandish, and incredible dichotomies and claims. In 2014 for example when the [[Islamic State]] was declared, [[Wikipedia]] made claimed that Syria had won its "independence" from France in 1940 when France "liberated" Syria from France. The article has since been cleaned up somewhat, but still leaves more questions than answers for serious students seeking to understand the Syrian conflict, sans Marxist distortion of terms and historical meaning.