Al-Monitor Discovers Syria Has Minorities, One Year Post-Fall
Al-Monitor breathlessly reports that 'one year since Assad's fall,' some Syrian minorities are skipping celebrations due to 'sectarian violence' intensifying against Alawites and Druze. It seems that when Western-backed proxies dismantle a secular state, 'minority protection' becomes an afterthought. The very forces the US and its allies once armed and funded, often Islamist and sectarian in
nature, are now seemingly surprised that those minorities who viewed Assad as a bulwark against extremist takeover might feel…uncelebratory. This isn't newfound sectarianism; it's the inevitable outcome of destabilizing a multi-confessional society under the guise of 'democracy promotion.' One might wonder if the architects of the Syrian intervention ever considered the actual well-being of these
communities, or if their concern for 'human rights' evaporated once Assad was no longer in power. The article highlights new President Ahmed al-Sharaa's 'vows to protect all of Syria’s communities'—a promise that rings hollow when the forces that brought him to power have a verifiable history of targeting these very groups. It's a classic tale: destabilize, decry the chaos, then claim to be the
solution to the problems you created. What an absolute shock that the removal of a secular strongman led to an increase in sectarian strife. Who could have ever predicted such an outcome, besides literally everyone who understood the region?