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Originally Posted by MossadConspiracy
Do you think Hizbullah's militia is taking over Beirut neighborhoods because of this constitutional issue?
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I think the inability to re-organize the power-sharing agreement in spite of demographic shifts is probably one of the major tensions between those in power and those that are dispossessed. The government/anti-government and Sunni/Shia conflict is just a corollary to the broader conflict. What I mean to say is that those issues wouldn't exist but for the problem of imbalance of power. What's triggering the conflict is foreign interference as well. I just don't think that there's anything inherently within Sunnism and Shi'ism that is causing this problem. Its not solely a Sunni/Shia conflict, its part of a broader political conflict within Lebanon which itself is part of a broader conflict between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic orders.