During a talk show on Qatari channel Al Jazeera the host Faisal al-Qasim asked the suggestive question, whether if it's permissible to kill Alawite civilians. The irony: al-Qasim himself is not Sunni, he is a Druze native of Suwaida'.

On the same subject (but a bit more suffisticated) read an interesting posting by Sam Heller at Jihadology.