guest wrote:
> So can political/societal loyalty trump religion in Gen-Dynamics?
> Yeah, Albanians love America. The pro-American feelings are
> palpable on the streets of any town or village in Albania.
Religion is only one of the factors that cause identity groups
to form. Things like ethnicity, skin color, geography, and
even political affiliation can do it.
The most powerful is ethnicity because it can't be changed. A person
can change his religion, and a religion itself can change by
splintering to form factions, but a person's ethnicity can't change,
and the identity of an ethnic group cannot change.
So you have Sunni ethnic Turks fighting Sunni Kurds. In 1994 Rwanda,
both the Tutsis and Hutus were Catholic. In the Iran/Iraq war, ethnic
Arab Iraqis, both Sunnis and Shias, fought Persian Shias. In WW II,
American Germans were loyal to America, not to the Nazis, so geography
overrode ethnicity in that case.