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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Protests erupted in parts of Syria, dominated by the

Alawite religious minority after a video online apparently showed militants burning a shrine sacred to the group. And

Pirs Dia Hadid has more. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the video showed gunmen

torching a shrine wholly to Aloitites in killing five workers and mutilating their bodies.

As the video spread, protests erupted across Syria in areas dominated by

Aloitites, posing perhaps the most important security challenge yet for the country's new rulers.

They assume power after rebels overran Damascus in early December. The rebels were led by a Muslim

group known as HTS, leading to fears among Syrian minorities

that they'd be vulnerable to persecution.

That fear is particularly strong among al-Awites

because many view the minority

as having aided the former regime of Bashar al-Assad,

who is also on al-Aliate.

Syria's new information minister blamed, quote,

hidden hands that sought to divide Syrians.

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