Mofra
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Without wanting to goad the "all Islam is bad crowd", I agree in some respects.Perhaps.
I know where the cancer has metastasised the worst though.
There is an element of tribalism in many poorer areas of the world, particularly the Middle East and Africa which have been subject to arbitrary national borders based on colonization as opposed to traditional kingdom/tribal models. In the absence of long established power structures, religion has filled a void - a phenomenon that has been demonstrated again post-Arab Spring.
In some places, internal policies facilitate a thriving, functional democracy (e.g. Tanzania and their non-tribal representation model in local government areas). For the most part, it has been a failure.
While Palestinians often create the most headlines in terms of displaced people without a full nation-state, the Kurds also lack a nation state and outnumber the Palestinians - if you wanted to know where I'd start to try and bring some sense of peace to Iraq, I'd start with partition of predominately Kurdish, Sunni and Shi'ite lands.