alawites in A Sentence

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    The first trend is the role of the Alawites.

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    For centuries the Alawites were repressed, exploited and most were poor servants or farmers.

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    Alawites controlled, or were patrons of, all key Government positions in Syria, and controlled a vast part of the Syrian economic system.

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    Nonetheless, it is greatly influenced by the majority religion of Islam(80% of the population, split between 74% Sunni Muslim and 16% other Muslim, Alawites and Druze).

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    Since then the Alawi Shia Assad family has ruled Syria, improving the lives of Alawites and leading to this small religious group being the ruling class of the country.

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    For Alawites themselves, this was a rational response to the injustices and repression that they felt had been done to them for 300 years before Syria became a French protectorate, and later gained independence.

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    Some sought to gain the support of a wide slice of Syrian society- across the board from Sunnis, Shias, Alawites(if possible), Kurds etc.- in order to demonstrate that the nature of their conflict with the Assad regime wasn't about religion, ethnic or tribal identities, but about the brutal nature of the Syrian state under Assad's control.

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