Syria 1st-Hand: Coffee with the Mayor of A Christian Village (Leigh)

“I’m a Christian. There’s a big difference here between Christians and Alawites. Alawites are special cases, they are always number one,” Msyor Abu Skandar says.

“Before the war, we had a good relationship with them. We also had a good relationship with the Sunnis. There’s an old Arabic saying: ‘We sleep in the same house'. There were a few Alawite families here before, but when we started the revolution, we threw them out of this village.”

Why, I ask.

“The Alawites are all out for our houses, they’re all out for money.”

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