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I was thinking about Syria on my way back from work today. Syria is a Sunni Muslim country ruled by the Alawites, an Islamic sect viewed by many Muslims as heretics.

In 1982, the Muslim Brotherhood tried to overthrow the Alawite-controlled government, only to be gruesomely repressed.

I was thinking that a European analogy to this would be if the Cathari took over France and kept an iron boot firmly on the necks of the Catholic majority.

So how could this happen?
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