re: #2 Obdicut
re: #3 Stoatly
How many Christians have been persecuted in Syria for being Christian? Is alcohol banned there? Do women where bee keeper suits in Syria or be jailed?
What is your definition of secular if that does not qualify?
Syria is the only place outside of Saddam’s Iraq where Christians not only live in relative peace and prosperity but were not denied their religious rights and where you could be an atheist or a apostate and not get killed.
So yea, one up for Assad compared to the scumbags the USA and her love partner Saudi Arabia are backing.