You're correct, from my experience talking to levantine refugees here. (Which amusingly included a Yazidi person who was basically this a.k.a. pro-Saddam)

The remarkable fact was that the friend of mine was the offspring of wealthy people from the intellectual strata, fluent in English and with strong sadly lib opinions (which is one of the reasons we drifted apart), that is someone who likes to dine from Zizek's trashcan.