PRI: Public Radio International

As minorities flee, the Middle East loses its once rich religious diversity

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:00:00 -0500

The Middle East, once a region of great religious diversity, has seen a mass emigration of minorities in recent decades. It's now one of the most religiously monolithic regions in the world. One Middle East scholar says the trend is likely to continue as tensions there continue to grow.

Elsa Schieder

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:52:23 -0500

Re: "Any democracy, when it starts, starts always violently," he said. "So this could not be taken to be against anybody or any revolution."

Once can also note that when there is violence, it often escalates - see Uganda, Cambodia and on.

And what's happened in Egypt is much less a start of violence than an escalation of anti-Christian violence.