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A.Bashar al Asaad did not run a brutal Sectarian dictatorship. The Political affairs of Syria have been in the hands of the Sunnis preety much throughout Bashar's rule. The Divisions were clear.Alawites ran the millitary,Sunnis and Christians ran the Economy and the Politics, the rest had the freedom to fit in anywhere. The Uprising was Populist. Then why did the entire Middle Class rally around him for an entire year??? Not even Mubarak or Gaddhaffi enjoyed the backing Asaaad recieved from Syrians of all religious affiliations at the begining of the Uprising!!.In case you haven't noticed, Damascus never rebelled against him despite being a Sunni majority city and neither did Alleppo,whose rebel fighters are not even natives of the city. The fact that Central and parts of Southern Syria decided to rebel does not mean that the rest of the country did. Brutal Dictator. Funny,I only ever hear Exiled Muslim Brotherhood supporters calling him that. It was not Bashar al Asaad who took the war to Eastern Syria which never rebelled against Asaad.It was the rebels who moved there after fleeing defeat in Hama and Hom. Now the very same territories that never rebelled got their thanks by being occupied by ISIS.