Druze continue to be slaughtered in Sweida, by both the Syrian army that was sent in by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, ostensibly to protect them — and by the Sunni Bedouin in Sweida, who regard the Druze as Infidels and thus deserve, as the “most vile of created beings,” to be killed. The word has gone […]
What al-Sharaa’s Army Did to the Druze in Sweida
After the IDF went into action to stop Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s army from continuing its bloodbath in Sweida, by bombing 160 sites in Sweida itself, and in Damascus, hitting the army headquarters and a place close to the presidential palace by way of a warning, the Syrian dictator pulled his troops back and declared, […]
Syria: Jihad suicide bombers targeted ‘calf-worshipping Druze pigs’
“Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed. It is a promise that is binding on him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. Who fulfills his covenant better […]
What Should the Druze in Syria Do in the Long Run?
Many dozens of Druze have been fleeing the fighting in Suweyda and been crossing the border into Israel. And Israeli Druze have been urging the Israeli government to do more to oppose the Syrian regime that they blame for unleashing attacks on the Druze. More on what the Israeli Druze have been doing, and how […]
IDF Protects Syrian Druze From Syrian Government
The Druze are an ethno-religious people, belonging to an 11th century offshoot of Shi’a Islam, a people whom orthodox Muslims do not consider to be Muslims at all. They live in Israel, Syria, and Lebanon. Just now, the Druze have been fighting with the Bedouin Sunnis who live near them in the Druze stronghold of […]
In Syria, New Protests Against the Regime
The Syrian civil war that began with protests against the Assad regime in 2011, by 2022 appeared to have been largely won by the government, after six million Syrians had fled abroad, five million remain internally displaced, and a half-million civilians have been killed. But now there is another flareup of discontent with the government, […]
Islamic State murders Druze hostage, sends videos of his beheading to his family
They were obeying the Qur’anic command to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). “Islamic State said to execute Druze hostage from Syria’s Sweida,” AFP, August 5, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Islamic State terrorist group has executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from Syria’s […]