2010’s in Alawite reality:
-Approximately 100k Alawites were murdered while fighting by Islamist jihadis, Alawite population is endangered.
-Alawites had to abandon their accents from time time, most Alawite feature is the pronouncation of the letter ق, pronouncing it was risky.

Alawites in occupied areas had to abandon their accent, and had to pretend to be a Sunni, to avoid beheading.

Alawite population was always a minority in Syria, but as of now it’s endangered, because Alawite women population is way more than Alawite men. Also, the number of 100k Alawite death does not include civilians.

According to Columbia University, Alawite population percentage in Syria went from 11.8% in 2010 to 17.2% in 2018, but this isn’t about an increase in its population. Millions more of Sunnis had to leave Syria and the Sunni percentage dropped which made Alawite percentage went up

We will see the real number when refugees all around the world get back to Syria.

Alawites are native to the Levant, there’s no native Alawite population outside of Levant region, all Alawite population outside of the Levant is diaspora.

What I’m trying to say here is that Sunnis and Christians have their people all around the world from different ethnic backgrounds, but minorities like Alawites and Yezidis are only limited in Levant. Alawites and Yezidis are both endangered.

Christians are endangered in the Levant too due to the persecution, but the difference of Alawites is that their kind isn’t native of anywhere else in the world.

The only stable Alawite community is in Antioch which is in the Levant, but outside of Syria’s borders. The decrease in Alawite population in Syria is on an alarm level and it’s mostly death due to war & genocide, not immigration due to war.

Disclaimer: I’m just trying to point out to the fact that a minority that’s indigenous to the Levant is getting smaller every day. Population and death rates do not match.

Disclaimer 2: I received a reaction to this thread so I’m going to explain what I’m trying to say furthermore. I did not say Alawites were the only natives in Syria. All Syrians are natives.

The case for Alawites is that Alawites have no other ethnicity, it’s just ‘Alawite’. There’s no other community in the world that could keep the word ‘Alawite’ alive.

There are many Christian & Sunni communities around the globe, Christian & Sunni communities in the Levant are one of them; and they’re all native to their land. The name Alawite starts and ends in the Levant, that’s why it’s endangered. I’m not belittling any other struggle

This thread was only focused on Alawites and the decrease in the community.