A Middle East sage remarked that Americans only learn about religions, geography and history by going to war.
Did you know that Muslims believe Mahdi will return soon to cleanse the world of infidels? He will then establish a universal Islamic rule.He sounds like the Judeo-Christian Messiah. Scholars believe that both the Mahdi and the Messiah are loosely based on Ahura Mazda. That was the supreme god of the 6th century B.C. Persian prophet Zoroaster.
Recent attempts to form a new government in Iraq are also proving to be educational. It would appear that mutually exclusive political tribes are trying to form a government in a future Iraq that will allow those tribes to remain mutually exclusive!
Maybe the lesson to be drawn is that mutually exclusive tribes will not fit into a democratic paradigm . In future the worlds people wiil probably end up belong to various tribes because the cost of central government is more than local government which is more efficient and adaptive.
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