While I'm a firm atheist, Assad jettisoned all pretense of Baathist/secular ideology a decade if not longer ago in favor of simply doing whatever it takes to st

While I'm a firm atheist, Assad jettisoned all pretense of Baathist/secular ideology a decade if not longer ago in favor of simply doing whatever it takes to stay in power. The atrocities perpetrated by Assad's regime were far larger in scale than anything that ISIS ever managed, half a million people (on all sides) have died since 2013.