Sounds like neither you nor your family bought in to the regime propaganda line from day one. Let me guess you didn't see sectarian graffiti in your neighborhood (despite the increase of security and checkpoints during that time). You didn't get random calls from people with thick coastal accents claiming they would kill you as the revolution was underway, despite the protestors calling for unity and imploring minorities to join them? In case you guys didn't figure it out, it was the mukhabarat doing those things and it clearly worked. The rebels had many chances to wholesale slaughter Christians and Alawites in Homs and they simply didn't. Most Christians and Alawis would flee out of fear, but the ones who stayed didn't get mass executed by the early FSA/independent rebel groups so you are just spreading fear mongering. It is a fact that it was Sunni civilians who experienced the worst sectarian massacres in Homs carried about Shabiha. It was Sunni civilian women getting abducted and gang-raped by the SAA and Shabiha gangs in Homs city, not minority civilian females. It was Sunni civilians, protestors and activists who were mass detained by the security services and many were never heard from again or are still being tortured and beaten in mukhabarat run torture dungeons to this day. But I guess their lives don't matter to you and your family right since you have dismissed them all as "terrorists" correct?