The Druze are ethnically Arab, but practice a religion that is an offshoot of Islam. Sunni Muslims regard them as non-Muslims, and mistreat them accordingly. Right now, the de facto President of Syria, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, has been insisting that in the new Syria, all minorities — the Kurds, Druze, Christians, and Alawites — will be treated as equals with the majority Sunni Muslims. But this claim has not assuaged the alarm felt by those minorities, particularly after the massacre of more than 1,000 Alawites (some Alawites claim there were tens of thousands killed) in Latakia by Sunnis who resent the Alawite support for the regime of Bashar Assad, himself an Alawite. Al-Sharaa’s promise to find those responsible for the attack on the Alawites
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