Sorry to interrupt the bickering: pop quiz on Syria

[BelgianMadCow]

1) Syria is majority
a) Shia
b) Sunni

2) Al-Assad is
a) Shia
b) Sunni

3) Alawites are
a) Shia
b) Sunni

4) Al Qaeda is
a) Shia
b) Sunni

5) Christians, druzes have been most protected in the past decades by
a) Alawites
b) Shia
c) Sunni

If you don't know the answers, maybe consider what business you have discussing bombing OR not bombing that country.
Or you may want to check the excellent docu posted in this DU thread.

PS: I would have flunked that test myself.
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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Thank you, Belgian...

Even that short lil quiz is a start to thinking clearly about the Middle East.

[BelgianMadCow]

3. I'll admit it was just a hook to the vid you posted ;-)

I miss the days when great vids were still here in the midst of GD and would regularly garner a lot of recs.
Days when discussing election theft or silly government theories was still in the open too, but that's for another day.

[leftstreet]

2. I don't need to know any of that to be antiwar

Interesting quiz all the same though

Thx for posting