Dozens of Women from Syria’s Alawite Minority Kidnapped After Fall of Assad

A disturbing spree of kidnappings has struck women in the Alawite Muslim minority community in Syria since the fall of dictator Bashar Assad, reports revealed this week, including at least 33 known cases of brazen abductions in broad daylight.

The Alawites are a branch of Shia Islam that comprises about ten percent of the Syrian population, but they were dramatically over-represented in the fallen government of Assad, who was himself an Alawite. A little under 75 percent of Syrians are Sunni Muslims from various ethnic backgrounds.

Many Syrians resented the Alawites for enjoying preferential treatment under the brutal Assad dynasty, which…

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