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To: average joe who wrote (40767)	8/31/2013 12:24:33 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

Syria is a classic example of long standing religious sectarian rifts, exactly what solon was commenting on. And these idiots want to argue something so obviously true as evolution, yet here's the whole cult truth of religion unfolding right before their eyes. Only the self righteous mutual "believers" could be maintain such blindness, the hegemony of ignorance marches on, some kind of massive dellusion on a grand historical scale, ignorance is always preferable to truth. Sectarianism and minorities in the Syrian civil war en.wikipedia.org The government has been reported to be supported by some of the country's Christians of various denomination, [4] [5] though it is the Alawite sect that remains at the heart of the struggling dictatorship's fight for its survival. [6] Sentiments of sectarianism amongst the Sunni population have been said to be rooted in that both Hafez al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad are Alawites, a minority many Sunnis see as heretics, and who are placed in the majority of cabinet and government positions. Discrimination of the Alawite sect for being kuffar has a long tradition and present-day Salafists still like to refer to fatwas like that of Ahmad ibn Taymiya (1268-1328) who considered Alawites more infidel than Christians or Jews. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111) wrote that the Alawites "apostatize in matters of blood, money, marriage, and butchering, so it is a duty to kill them". [28] Adnan Al-Arour, a Syrian satellite television preacher based in Saudi Arabia, has said that Alawites who supported the regime would be chopped up and fed to the dogs. [29] [30] Journalist Nir Rosen, writing for Al Jazeera, reported that members of the Alawite sect are afraid of Sunni hegemony, as they were oppressed by Sunnis during Ottoman times and in the early years of the 20th century, the Sunni merchant class held much of the country's wealth and dominated politics. [31] Following Hafez al-Assad's coup, Alawites' position in Syria improved under the regime of Assad, himself an Alawite. [30] [32]