text: Not necessarily, Gay. The Christian community in Syria has been inclined for a long time now to support their government against the rebel forces. I'm not well read on this issue, but as I understand their perception, it goes something like this: The original rebellion in Syria may have been led by students and others seeking an end to tyranny, but by now the bulk of the rebel movements have been taken over by Islamist of varying degrees of extremism. ISIS and others determined to wage war on the world aside, the bulk of the rest of the rebels are assumed to want to set up a globally peaceful democratic Islamic state which would domestically crack down on secular and non-Muslim religious elements...as happened democratic Egypt. 
  
  Unfortunately, it seems these Syrian Christians believe their well-being is best served by a dictator. What we see and what they see is just not the same. They fear the tyranny of a democratic majority more that the tyranny of a ruthless dictator. How horrible