Just because two-thirds of the population is of the other religion from the secular State, why did they feel the need to rise up against Assad?
Why do you think that's the reason?
This whole "Arab Spring" deal seems to be a fig leaf for some long smoldering embers.
Best analysis I have read to date points to water and economic development policy in Syria, and preferential treatment of regime cronies, as being the root cause of the recent demonstrations that led to civil war as the ember was fanned into a flame.
Sectarian issue are certainly embedded, but I do not fall for the line that sectarian differences as the cause of rebellion.