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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
But it's interesting, is it not, that Sikhs want a nation defined by religion, not ethnicity or language. Many Islamists feel the same way. And that would be the salient split in Northern Ireland.
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yes it is interesting. And as I said these nations make more rational sense. People wanting to live with coreligionists so they can be with people with shared values. But these nations never last. Where the ethnic nations do.
Over time the ethnic nation form and congeal. But the regligous ones never make it. The Caliphate will never happen. Khalistan will never happen.
The only time a religious state can make it in the long term is when the religioius state is composed of only one ethnic group. But this is why I think Persia is doomed. Most of the people are Shia but only fifty percent are Persian. The non persian parts are going to split off.
