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Guest column: Syria's future unlikely to include democracy

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Gwynne Dyer: What are the odds the man whose fighters brought down the regime, Ahmed al-Sharaa , can bring peace, prosperity and even democracy to Syria ? Sharaa is an Islamist who started out in al-Qaida , but as an Islamist he would normally reject modern forms of Islam that permit abominations such as democracy and equal rights for women.

He really frightens the 30 per cent of Syrians who belong to various religious minorities: Alawites , Ismailis , mainstream Shia Muslims , Christians , and Druze .

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