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Huge Beirut explosion shatters windows across Lebanese capital

joluoto said:
Lebanon is very religiously diverse.

According to the wikipedias:
Basically:
Sunni 27 %
Shia 27 %
Maronite 21 %
Greek Catholic 5 %
Greek Orthodox 8 %
Other Christian 6.5 %
Druze 5.6 %
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it is diverse but the bulk of political power is in shia
 
TypicalRussian said:
it is diverse but the bulk of political power is in shia
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Not really. according to the National Pact of 1943 that still dictates how power is shared the President is always a Maronite, the Prime Minister a Sunni, while the Shia always gets the Speaker of Parliament position. Shias also are given 27 parliament seats, as many as the Sunnis. The Maronites are given 34 seats, and are thus the most overrepresented group.
 
Explosion rattles Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon
There was no immediate word by officials as to the cause of the explosion in the small town of Ain Qana. An unnamed source told Reuters the site was an arms depot.
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“Everyone knows where the weapons are. The issue of these weapons in villages and cities is now an issue of life and death. It is neither justifiable nor acceptable for Hezbollah to consider to store its weapons in such places,” Ali al-Amin, a journalist covering south Lebanon, told UAE-based al-Hadath TV.
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I guess they don't really care much at this point...
 
joluoto said:
Not really. according to the National Pact of 1943 that still dictates how power is shared the President is always a Maronite, the Prime Minister a Sunni, while the Shia always gets the Speaker of Parliament position. Shias also are given 27 parliament seats, as many as the Sunnis. The Maronites are given 34 seats, and are thus the most overrepresented group.
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a truly divided society- they all went to war for 15 years and Beirut is segregated
 
joluoto said:
Oh yeah, the Lebanese system is not very democratic nor very functional.
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so multicultartism doesnt work...i mean the majority of civil wars are on ethnic lines
 
TypicalRussian said:
so multicultartism doesnt work...i mean the majority of civil wars are on ethnic lines
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And what has this to do with multiculturalism? That was a weird flex. What Lebanon needs in democratization because the archaic "let's divide the country among sectarian lines" is not working very well, has created a corrupt elite that always win every election due to how the system works and just sit in government to enrich themselves.
 
joluoto said:
And what has this to do with multiculturalism? That was a weird flex. What Lebanon needs in democratization because the archaic "let's divide the country among sectarian lines" is not working very well, has created a corrupt elite that always win every election due to how the system works and just sit in government to enrich themselves.
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yes but that is all multicultarism is, its a clash of cultures, its seen everywhere
 
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