Collapse of the Assad Regime

[Quirky]

is that countries that have a religious minorities (within Islam or a mix of Islam/Christianity/Hinduism/Jewish) or ethnic/linguistic minorities simply don't work.

Bodes well for the future of Canada, where diversity is our strength.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Bodes well for the future of Canada, where diversity is our strength.

We are living in a giant, multi-generational experiment -

 

[OldSolduer]

What Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, the old Belgian Congo, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, old Austro-Hungarian Empire, etc, etc, etc, all tell us, is that outside of a mere handful of places around the world, is that countries that have a religious minorities (within Islam or a mix of Islam/Christianity/Hinduism/Jewish) or ethnic/linguistic minorities simply don't work.

Look at Yugoslavia - Serb Orthodox, Croatian RC and BH Islam. Not a mix conducive to good relations.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Look at Yugoslavia - Serb Orthodox, Croatian RC and BH Islam. Not a mix conducive to good relations.

And Syria? Druze, Alawite, Shia, Sunni, Orthodox (Greek, Armenian), Catholics (Armenian, Greek), RC, Baha'is, Jews, Chaldeans, Maronites, etc, etc.

It made Yugoslavia look like amateurs.

The reality of what happened recently in both Iraq and Syria is that a form of ethnic/religious cleansing was 'allowed' to occur. The vast majority of Christians that resided in Iraq prior to 2001 have already fled the country, further weakening the position of those remaining behind. Syria will be the same for certain. Lebanon has been bleeding Christian emigrees since the mid 1970s. This process will continue around the Middle East, it will continue in places like India (higher percentage of Indian immigrants to the west tend to be Christians or Sikhs). How many Jews left the old Soviet Union when the opportunity presented itself? Vast majority were economic immigrants initially but the 'want' to go to a place where they 'belonged' or were a part of the majority played a significant part.

 

[Kirkhill]

Britain being an island with a relatively small and homogeneous population learned to manage differences. Eventually. For a while.

We learned to accommodate diiferent ideas, where we could. Some ideas we just all agreed were wrong.

And we learned to laugh at each other. Triggering was not a thing.

Tcheuchters and sassenachs, loonies and keelies, geordies and scousers, taffs and micks and jocks, cockneys and Farmer Giles.

We even learned to accommodate Tallies and Pakis.

I'll tell you now that it is not the colour of the skin that tells me that I am speaking to a Brit. It is the dialect that they speak to me.

A West Indian scouse is still a scouse.

 

[OldSolduer]

A West Indian scouse is still a scouse.

whats a scouse???

 

[Kirkhill]

whats a scouse???

A Liverpudlian, someone from Liverpool. The Beatles were all scousers.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

And Syria? Druze, Alawite, Shia, Sunni, Orthodox (Greek, Armenian), Catholics (Armenian, Greek), RC, Baha'is, Jews, Chaldeans, Maronites, etc, etc.

It made Yugoslavia look like amateurs.

The reality of what happened recently in both Iraq and Syria is that a form of ethnic/religious cleansing was 'allowed' to occur. The vast majority of Christians that resided in Iraq prior to 2001 have already fled the country, further weakening the position of those remaining behind. Syria will be the same for certain. Lebanon has been bleeding Christian emigrees since the mid 1970s. This process will continue around the Middle East, it will continue in places like India (higher percentage of Indian immigrants to the west tend to be Christians or Sikhs). How many Jews left the old Soviet Union when the opportunity presented itself? Vast majority were economic immigrants initially but the 'want' to go to a place where they 'belonged' or were a part of the majority played a significant part.

Be good if a bunch of the Syrian Christians and Alwaites move into Lebanon.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Drug factory exposed. Hopefully they burn it all to the ground