Why the Syrian Civil War is NOT a Sunni-Shi'ite war

Don't believe the Media when they tell you the Syrian Civil War is a Sunni uprising against a Shi'ite minority government.

It is rubbish. If the majority of Syrian Sunnis rose up against the government, much more of Syria would be in the hands of the rebels.

The truth of the Syrian Civil War is that it is a minority of Sunnis uprising against everyone else in Syria. The Sunni rebels are largely from the Syrian countryside, and by no means do they make up the majority of the Syrian Sunni population.

Something which must be understood about Syria is that it is run by a secular government. It is not yet a democracy, but the government is secular. This has meant that many Sunnis are secular and hate the rebels more than the Alawites that rule them. They hate Shari'a and do not believe it should be applied in the 21st century.

The best way to prove this is to see how many Syrian Arab Army soldiers who have fought for the government were Sunni. The truth is the majority of Syrian Arab Army soldiers are Sunni Arab Muslims. The Alawites get much of the commanding power in the Syrian Arab Army, but that the Sunnis still fight under them after nearly 6 years of civil war is testimony to this fact:

The Syrian Civil War is NOT Sunni-Shi'ite.

However, this war is a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Ironically, Iran (the Shi'ite power) does maintain alliance with two majority-Sunni Arab states - Syria and Palestine. It is Saudi Arabia whose doctrines pursue such an anti-anyone-but-Sunni rhetoric, as is consistent with the teachings of Ibn Abdul Wahhab. Iran does not pursue such sectarian policies to the same extent.

Certainly Shi'ites from Afghanistan and Iraq have fought for Syria on the side of the Syrian Arab Army, but the same can be said for America fighting on the side of Al-Qaeda in Syria: Americans may not be Salafi jihadists, but they still are fighting against the Syrian government due to political reasons.

The Iraq War, on the other hand, is largely a Sunni-Shi'ite battle, one which will define the future of the Middle-East decisively when the conflict is over. If, as I anticipate, the Shi'ites win for good in Iraq, anti-Shi'ite power will be weaker than ever in the Middle-East.