[hadaclueonce]

it’s syria ~ they’re white and with substantial jewish ancestry to boot.

If so they sure picked the wrong neighborhood to live in.

[muawiyah]

They didn’t pick it ~ they were there long before Abraham left Sumer.

[Cronos]

Muawiyah means that the Syrians are "white" -- Caucasians. They are the descendents of the ancient Akkadians and Amorites who were then called arameans and Syrians. They were cousins of Abraham's clan - fellow Semites before the Greeks and Romans came and hence they have a heavy amount of indo-european blood

In fact they would have indo-european blood from earlier -- 1700 BC and the Hittites.

They produced at least one Emperor (Elagabalus) and probably Septimus Severus's entire dynasty of Emperors were of Syrians blood from Emesa (modern day Homs)

This was then a Byzantine fief for a long time, this was one of the centres of Christianity before Islam came along and still IS quite Christian (officially 10% but probably 20% with the numbers of Christian refugees from post-Saddam Iraq)