And this is angering a lot of Alawites including those who until recently were #Assad diehards.
Tellingly, Awqaf Ministry is blamed for this although in fact it doesn't deal with general education. "Awqaf" here is codename for "conservative Sunni influence within the state"https://twitter.com/Elizrael/status/1138799691490045954 …
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My next long piece will be about the Alawi community & will touch on this. I'd say that all of those complaining want Assad to remain in power because they link his survival to theirs. They just want the current regime to be more aggressively secular.
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Sunni conservative influence within the state hasn't increased (it's probably weaker than it was pre-2011). What's increased is the aversion of the regime's Alawite constituency to Sunni religiosity.
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Absolutely, and Alawis are afraid not just Sunni religiously but also Shia. Islam in general seems threatening.
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How far is a comparison with the development of the Maronite community in the 1980s under the Gemayels useful for establishing where the Alawite community is heading?
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I think it's similar in some respects, such as adoration of "our" war criminals & growing impoverishment of the community due to the war. But the presence of an incredibly fierce and repressive secret police apparatus in Syria (which never existed in Lebanon) creates differences
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Well, Syria has its Mukhabarat, Lebanon has Hezbollah...
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but Hezbollah wasn't relevant when the gemayls were
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