Message from @Sophie
Discord ID: 684884282988167173
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
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?
That these wars are solely about religious differences?
Yeah they are
So, nothing to do with say, Kurds wanting sovereignty
Just religious differences
Why do you think they want sovereignty
....
Man
If everyone had the same religion, poof, they no longer would want sovereignty
You go around belittle members of this server
You didn't know about any of this until I brought it up
Lol