A rocket strike in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on Saturday that killed 12 children and teenagers in a Druse Arab village has put a focus on the Druse, an Arabic-speaking religious minority. ...
The Druse are a religious group that practices a deliberately mysterious offshoot of Islam, developed in the 11th century in Egypt, that contains elements of Christianity, Hinduism, Gnosticism and other philosophies. The sect recognizes the prophets of the Abrahamic faiths, including Jesus, John the Baptist, Muhammad and Moses, and reveres Greek philosophers like Plato and Socrates.
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