In Syria, nothing is yet established and it may turn out that the leader of HTS, Ahmad al-Sharaa, is indeed, as his critics, the fresh al-Baghdadi or bin Laden warn. Or, as in Libya, after the overthrow of Gaddafi, there will be a fresh civilian war between various factions or between Arabs and Kurds in the north. However, boycotting al-Shara for fear of proving unreformable jihadist can only guarantee the triumph of unreformable jihadists.
