This is a video about the Alawees in Syria, from Mountains to the government: this was posted April 11,2012 - I see YouTube has censored it..... isn't it amazing, social media is not that social... Update June 3, 2021 Here is additional information about Alawees: https://en.wikishia.net/view/Alawites_(Syria) (since censorship and information suppression has been so common recently, I'll add captions, quotes from this post: Syrian Alawites (Arabic: عَلَویون ) or Nuṣayrīyya (Arabic: نُصَیریّه ) or Anṣārīyya (Arabic: أنصاریة ) is a Shiite sect in Syria . In some historical sources and books