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Originally Posted by eleanoraquitaine
You/it offered no evidence for you assertion whatsoever that any of the conflicts you listed involved Christians fighting for their religion.
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A fact I clearly noted, by way of examples of fighting involving Muslims that wasn't necessarily religious in nature.
The poster to whom I was responding made no such distinction; he just said Muslims are involved in most of the world's conflicts. I said the same could be said about Christians. That is the point I illustrated.
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I see some on your list CLEARLY do not involve Christians fighting for their religion, like Burma for instance, though some Christians might be victims of the Burmese government.
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In Burma, some of the separatist groups involve largely Christian tribes. But I agree, their gripes are mostly ethnic, not religious.
If that's your criteria, though, then a lot of the conflicts I listed under "Muslim" fall off the list. Like Kashmir, Algeria and the Indonesian separatist fights. None of those are primarily religious conflicts in the sense you mean.
Your map is worse.
I clearly stated the criteria for my list. If you now want to modify the criteria and examine only conflicts where religion is a central reason for fighting, I'd be happy to. It will further destroy the original poster's point, though; because religion is the animating force in only a handful of conflicts, Muslim or Christian.