We, as Syrians, must strive to be fair and objective.

There is a vast difference between promoting the notion that Druze university students are abandoning their campuses as a result of personal decisions or subtle encouragement from certain sociopolitical circles on the one hand, and claiming that their withdrawal is due to harassment or pressure from fellow students, professors, or administrative staff on the other.

Any insightful, perceptive, and free-thinking observer will recognize that the first scenario—which I personally find more plausible—presents a reality quite different from the second, which I categorically reject, particularly given the absence of any credible evidence to support it.

This does not mean we deny the existence of isolated incidents that may cause discomfort to individual students within campuses that are, in principle, meant to welcome all Syrian students—regardless of their religious, doctrinal, ideological, political, or ethnic affiliations.
Yet such incidents remain just that: isolated cases.

In summary:

1. This sectarian provocation must be decisively quelled by the wise and rational among us, before it triggers a wave of similar withdrawals among students from other religious or ethnic backgrounds.
2. Students who voluntarily withdraw from universities must face disciplinary consequences in accordance with the academic administrative regulations.
3. Strict laws must be enacted to criminalize any sectarian rhetoric or behavior, especially within university campuses and schools.
4. The new Syrian state must not be held responsible for these suspicious waves of withdrawal—waves that I firmly believe are intentionally orchestrated. In fact, many are seen actively engaging with this narrative on social media platforms, not only adopting it but using it as a tool to attack the state, instead of investigating the deeper motives and hidden agendas behind it.