The Role Of Religion In The Middle East

A growing concern to many is the possibility of a civil war across countries between Sunnis and Shiites, in which “countries are divided along sectarian lines” (International Business Times). This would lead to a crisis, weakening the borders between countries as a result of a collapse of existing nation-states. The implications of this would be terrible - “goods, people, and weapons will move more easily” between many countries in the Middle East. Religion can cause people, such as Sunni and Shia Muslims in the Middle East, to do irrational things, from discrimination to murder, in order to assert their opinion that their specific beliefs are more correct and more right than the beliefs of others. Religion causes people to do this because