Two Dead Per Minute Due To War

According to the BBC, every minute, two people die in a war somewhere in the world.

In Chad the Libyans have attempted to create an Islamic republic by force.

In Lebanon, the islamic republic has strong sympathies for the Palestinians, who lands are occupied by Israel. Hostilities have included the loss of life at the beginning of this month between Israel and Lebanon.

Like Kosovo v. Serbian conflict, the conflict in Cyprus between the Muslim Turks and Christian Greeks has a religious components, it is really more of an ethnic conflict.

Syria is not directly at war with Israel but it has deployed hundreds of scud missiles along it's border which are aimed at israel.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban have destroyed historic buddhist idols and waged war on even less orthodox muslims in an attempt to impose an extreme Islamic orthodoxy.

Pakistan was formed specifically to give Islamic indians a self ruled land. The tensions between primarily Hindu India and Islamic Pakistan have always run high.

The United Nations maintains a middle-east peace keeping force headquartered in Jerusalem where Jew, Muslims and Christians all have very strong feelings and the risk of conflict is always high.

According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life; "Among the world's 25 most populous countries, Iran, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and India stand out as having the most restrictions." They also conclude that "Brazil, Japan, the United States, Italy, South Africa and the United Kingdom have the least."

There are wars in the furtherance of political independence such as in the Western Sahara but in general we fight over how we think others should worship.


http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/currentops.shtml
http://pewforum.org/Government/Global-Restrictions-on-Religion.aspx