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We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
Military Leader
Ophthalmologist
President Of Syria
Statesperson
Sham city
Assad
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Secularism
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Syria
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