Re: Israeli Ship damaged by Hezbollah drone


Guy Alcala wrote:
Jack Linthicum wrote:

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Minor quibble the President, must be a Maronite Christian, etc.The
Parliamentary seats are split 50-50, in a country with 60% Islamic, 39%
Christian population.

Religious makeup
Muslim 59.7% (Shi'a, Sunni, Druze, Isma'ilite, Alawite or Nusayri),

Christian 39% (Maronite Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholic,
Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Syrian Orthodox,
Roman Catholic, Chaldean, Assyrian, Copt, Protestant), other 1.3%
note: 17 religious sects recognized

Jack, if (, as you often do) you're going to quote verbatim from a source, you
really should provide an appropriate link or cite, like this:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/le.html

Guy

or any of the 300 or so other sites that use the same information

americanentropy.blogspot.com/2005/03/from-cia-factbook-muslim-59.html
www.indexmundi.com/lebanon/
www.learningpartnership.org/partners/lebanon etc

I also didn't lift the breakdown of how the various religious and
ethnic blocs get their seats in parliament. Reminds me of a year I
spent in Hawaii.

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