1-Aug-16 World View -- Migrant Indian workers in Saudi Arabia face starvation / India, Saudi Arabia warm relations

[John]

1-Aug-16 World View -- Migrant Indian workers in Saudi Arabia face starvation


India and Saudi Arabia move to warm relations with each other

** 1-Aug-16 World View -- Migrant Indian workers in Saudi Arabia face starvation
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e160801



Contents:
Migrant Indian workers in Saudi Arabia face starvation
India and Saudi Arabia move to warm relations with each other


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, India, Saudi Arabia, Philippines,
Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud, Narendra Modi, Sushma Swaraj,
Gulf Cooperation Council, GCC, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, China

[Guest5]

How will the Sunni Muslims in India behave during the coming world war? Will they rebel?

Do you see a civil war in Turkey between the secular and religious Turks? Could Turkey split and the secular Turks side with the America (plus Shias) against other Sunnis? One Iranian businessman visiting Istanbul last weekend stately glumly that Turkey is Iran in 1975; that an Islamic revolution is coming very quickly.

Could the Mullahs in Iran be removed? Could the Shah come back? The English brought back the King after Cromwell died (well, not immediately after...).

And how will the Sunnis in Europe react? They number in the millions. Most of these people are either migrants or native born citizens who have, for the most part, failed to intergrate into Western society. Won't they pose a massive security risk?

You seem to be dodging these questions. (Or perhaps you just don't know how things will play out)

[John]

I'm not your servant. Why don't you ask one question at a time, and
if I know the answer than I'll answer it.

[Guest5]

Do you think a civil war could start between secular and religious Turks?

When I visited Turkey, the contrast was stark. The urban elites and the Turks living in the western half of the country smoked, drank beer, and wore bikinis. The east was a bunch of impoverished country bumpkins.

The poor support the religious parties because of the welfare benefits these parties offer.

I find it impossible to believe the western oriented Turks would tolerate an Islamic take over.

I apologize for asking so many questions earlier. I know this blog requires a lot of work. Thank you.

[John]

> Do you think a civil war could start between secular and religious
> Turks? When I visited Turkey, the contrast was stark. The urban
> elites and the Turks living in the western half of the country
> smoked, drank beer, and wore bikinis. The east was a bunch of
> impoverished country bumpkins. The poor support the religious
> parties because of the welfare benefits these parties offer. I
> find it impossible to believe the western oriented Turks would
> tolerate an Islamic take over. I apologize for asking so many
> questions earlier. I know this blog requires a lot of work. Thank
> you.

My view of the situation in Turkey is that the secular versus
religious split is more political, and unlikely to be a fault line
across which a war will occur. This is based on the fact that the
coup fizzled very quickly, and there seems to be relatively little
opposition to all of Erdogan's purges. If there were going to be a
civil war, we would have seen signs of it by now.

However, to get a definitive answer to that question, one would have
to research what happened in World War I. We know that there was a
major ethnic fault line between the Turks and the Armenians, but some
research would be required to see if there was a deeper split within
the Turks. I suspect not, but it has to be researched.

We also know that there's a fault line between the Turks and the
Kurds. Another interesting question is what will happen to the
millions of Syrians now living in Turkey.