re: #214 Dark_Falcon
Still, I said nothing about religion, except where its was joined to politics.
Unlike here, where it’s never joined to politics.
I wasn’t touching on religious issues at all.
The rebellion in Bahrain was along religio-political lines, the ones you spelled out yourself.
In your world, it’s fine to repress the Shiites due to their religion and cultural ties to a country with a government nobody likes.
So you support the rebels in Libya, another country with a government nobody likes, but not the ones in Bahrain or Saudi Arabia, where they seriously cracked down on what little rebellion formed there.
I suppose if all that oil from Libya came here instead of to Italy, you would have a much different attitude about the rebels.