[Blood of Tyrants]

I had heard that Assad protected minority religions in Syria.

[House Atreides]

“I had heard that Assad protected minority religions in Syria.”
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He has indeed. The same cannot be said of the Islamist “rebels” that the Clinton/Obama/Kerry regime fininanced/armed/trained in alliance with the Saudis...cheered on by Juan McCain and Lindsay Graham. ISIS emerged from that crew.

[katana]

The Assad "clan" are Alawi, themselves a minority ethnic and religious group. They always protected the other minorities from the Sunni (read: Muslim Brotherhood) majority, with ruthless force to help maintain their tight grip on power. But also because they and those they have protected would be massacred if the MB ever took power. That is the basis of the whole "Civil War", fomented and supported by the Obama regime and radical Sunni Wahhabi Saudi Arabia.

I saw Hama after it was destroyed during a MB led revolt in the town by Hafez Assad (Papa to Bashar). Only the Christian Quarter was spared. The rest was open ground covered in carefully arranged piles of rubble. Of course the Assad regime is brutal and evil. But the other side would be as bad or worse.

[PGR88]

I had heard that Assad protected minority religions in Syria.

Assad is a minority Alawite. How does a minority, especially in the mid-east, rule? By suppression. He also used the other minorities, such as Shia and Christians, who also had to fear Sunni-majority rule. Plus, the Christians were not Muslim, are themselves divided among different denominations, and were apolitical. Christians were also useful to the regime, and more likely to be professionals like doctors and engineers.

[apocalypto]

I have heard that also.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#2: "I had heard that Assad protected minority religions in Syria."

That's the way it's been in those countries. Even Saddam Hussein laid off the Christians. Getting rid of Assad solves nothing.