Sectarian warfare

"For Ms Ahmad, the harassment began six months ago, when a note was nailed to her family home is in a predominantly Sunni neighbourhood of Homs. It said: "You have to leave or you will die." So her family of seven adults and five children moved to an Armenian Christian area. She said most of her Alawite neighbours did the same. While both sides in the conflict are at pains to show that they are the one who can protect the minorities, it is the Assad family that has a track record."  The reporter of this article was at pains every sentence to insist that the opposition is secular while reporting this. It was weird.