Yes. They are under huge pressure every day from Western governments and their allies to remove themselves from governance of Syria. Nine years of continuous war.
Also, Asma al Assad could have easily betrayed her husband and gone away to Europe or the Gulf but she didn't do that.
Well, many Muslims now have become nominal Muslims who blindly go through the rituals - like prayer or Hajj - without understanding that Islam was a Humanist movement in its origin.
Please read
this thread I had posted in 2016. It is an article by the Pakistani journalist Nadeem Paracha about Modern Socialist activism among Muslims and in Muslim-majority societies, from Indonesia to Somalia to Pakistan and many others, in the last many decades. This activism was the real spirit of Islam.
There was a Syrian Christian member here,
@Syrian Lion, who once said that Syria before 2011 was a free society without much religious infighting, and people coming to know of their neighbors' religious affiliation only during weddings and deaths. Well, that statement provides the outline of life in Syria before 2011.