That’s absurd

It's the truth

What war are you talking about?

the war in the middle-east between

Sunnites, Shiites and the Kurds

Which war specifically

.....

Yes?

the great division war of the middle-east

Lol

"Lol"

War is funny to you?

Wanna ask the refugees here from 2004?

how funny that is

The idea that it’s about religion is absolutely absurd

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-middle-easts-great-divide-is-not-sectarianism

Here ya go

“
Past and present tensions between the two main branches of Islam inarguably play a part in the region’s dynamics. But the vast majority of recent violence that has brought desolation and ruin to large parts of the Middle East has little to do with those strains. The bloodiest, most vicious, and most pertinent struggles occur squarely inside the Sunni world. Sectarianism is a politically expedient fable, conveniently used to cover up old-fashioned power struggles, maltreatment of minorities, and cruel totalitarian practices.”

“The region’s most ferociously violent Sunni actor, the Islamic State, for all its anti-Shiite discourse, claims Sunnis as the overwhelming majority of its victims. The fierce battles for the Iraqi city of Mosul or the Syrian city of Raqqa pitted Sunni against Sunni. isis attacks in Egypt, Somalia, Libya, Nigeria, and elsewhere almost always have Sunnis as prey. There are few examples of wide-scale killings of Shiites by the group.”

I'll tell our refugees it's all in their heads and they can just go home safely then

Do you think that’s what I’m saying?

I’m saying your claim is absurd, not that their grievances aren’t real

It's not absurd

Your article actually confirms it

the division is still real

Lol

they're still fighting eachother

...right, but they’re also fighting themselves

yeah ofc they are

Because that's the thing

If they go MILD on their religion

Your statement was “the whole wars going on in the middle-east are _purely_ based on their religious differences”

They get punished by their own group

Sophie

Which is just total nonsense

If they want to go with modern times

_they get punished by their own group_

YEAH

because it's still a religious difference

from within the group

Ok, so you’re dropping your previous statement?