assault against minorities seems like one trick to give legitimacy to whomever clinging in power in ME. after all cici is aligning him self with Assad under Putin's supreme leadership On a side note Ever since Byzantine empire retreated from ME ,the law of the land has been built on this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact_of_Umar
You assumed incorrectly. Instead of trying to normalize or justify what happened, you could just acknowledge the incident for what it is...a cowardly and abhorrent act.