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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean yes. That's 700+ years right there. And before them the other caliphates. Sectarian violence wasn't a common occurence in the Middle East before European colonization, which among other things drew nee borders in a way that intentionally encourages sectarian and ethnic violence.