The Men of Dignity emerged in 2014 with supporters of Wahid al-Balaous who was a dissident of the government in the Druze community and initially called for the removal of the Syrian government.[3] However, he and his movement were noted as neither being supportive of the Syrian government nor necessarily opposed to it, but rather wanted reform and steps to be taken to reduce corruption within the Syrian government. There was also speculation as to whether he wanted to establish his own separatist Druze state or make a deal with the FSA for autonomy. Despite this, however, his supporters were known to use the flag of Syria and refer to the Syrian army respectably as the Syrian Arab Army.