Thank you very much!

That's why the operative word is building.

As a New Englander I cannot condone this

...much like that 49% number in Tartus. But these findings potentially raise some interesting questions.

To what degree that reflects the "partial" aspect of the 90% figure, hidden divergences in what "equal rights" and "Islamic law" mean to respondents, and/or an element of telling pollsters what they think they want to hear is impossible to tease out from the article...

90% of Sunnis favor partial or full Islamic law, 86% of Druze and Christians favor secular law, 73% of Kurds favor secular law, while over 75% of everyone want equal rights for women. Clearly there has to be significant overlap between pro-Islamic law and pro-women's rights.

"Large numbers say they feel [al-Sharaa's] new order is safer, freer, and less sectarian than Mr. Assad's regime." Not clear what "large numbers" means or how that breaks down along community lines.

But sometimes in a moment like this people become eager and excited to say what they actually want to say - I experienced that in Egypt. Impossible to gauge exactly how much stock to put in any of these numbers, but worth thinking about regardless.

Needless to say, the typical problem in polling where respondents often say what they think they ought to rather than what they believe is something to think hard about in Syria, where people have long experience with doing just that (for very good reason).