Lebanon - Back in the day

I have a feeling you need to review your demographic map about Lebanon It's definitely not a muslim country. Lebanon was created as a French colony from pieces of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. In 1946, Lebanon gained full independence from France, and the new nation was held barely intact by the National Pact, an informal agreement that granted political offices to major groups (Christian Maronites, Sunni Muslims, Druze).The country is ruled by christians.
Okey I'm done arguing

Maria


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Dont fall. lol. you might stay stuck hehhehhhe
Today the percentage of muslims account a higher percentage because they have a high birth rate and they have no natural outlet (while most Christians had extensive contracts with Europe, the United States and Latin America. Whereas christians traditionally dominated the Lebanese government, and the President of Lebanon is always Maronite. We go back to the history of Lebanon 3,500 years ago, back to the dawn of civilisation. Its earliest settlers were the Phoenicians who came from the Arabian Peninsula around 1,200 BC. They established great cities at Beirut, Byblos, Tyre, Sidon, and Baalbek and spread their 22-letter Phoenician alphabet throughout the eastern of the mediterranean sea .
Lebanese were always differentiated from the Arabs because the phoenicians(christians lebanese) were the finders and the first settlers of the territory of Lebanon and they are from nowhere else.

 

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The phoenicians=canaanites became christians at the Roman times before the arabs(muslims)took over...

The Canaanites who lived in what is now present day Lebanon were later called the Phoenicians by the Greeks c. 10th century B.C. The Phoenicians are well known as having been great benefactors to mankind.

From the dawn of recorded history Lebanon has swung between independence and occupation. Long periods of independence were interrupted by Assyrian rule, then Babylonian and Persian rule, then by Alexander and by 64 BC Lebanon had become part of the Roman Empire. Throughout these years, the original native inhabitants of Lebanon were not displaced nor were they diluted, their Levantine, Canaanite origin remained intact.

It was in Roman times that a carpenter's son who was born in a stable was to forever change world. News of the teachings of this Jesus of Nazareth was to reach Lebanon early in his ministry and it prompted people from Lebanon to go and visit him (Mk. 3:8, Lk. 6:17), and he was also to journey to Lebanon where he healed the daughter of a Phoenician woman (Matt.15:21-8, Mk. 7:24-31) and attended a wedding. After the death of Christ, upon the martyrdom of Stephen, some of the disciples that were scattered abroad to preach went north to Phoenicia (Acts 11:19), through their works and the work of Paul, Lebanon converted. The pagan Canaanites, the early Lebanese, became Christian. Christianity flourished in Lebanon and by the close of the second century Tyre had become the seat of a Christian Bishop as has Sidon, whose Bishop attended the council of Nicea in 325 in which the Nicene Creed was formulated, furthermore in the year 335 a church council was held in Tyre. At about the same time, Frumentius, a Tyrian missionary introduced Christianity to Ethiopia. From early in the 5th Century and throughout the 6th, through the works of the disciples of St. Maron the people of Lebanon, the Phoenicians, both pagan and Christian, joined the Maronite Church.

For many years the Maronite Lebanese worked the land, terraced the mountains built their villages and expanded their cities. Soon a human tidal wave was not only to change the demographics of Lebanon but was also to change the history of the civilized world.

 

Not really , if you look in www.wikipedia.org.. You will find that at present the Lebanese Constitution officially claims the muslim Shi'a has, being traditionally the poorest community, exlains why it has had a high birth rate.As opposed to christianity,they have had no natural emigration outlet (while most Christians had extensive contacts with Europe, the United States and Latin America; and the Sunnis could easily relocate to any neighbouring Arab country, since they constitute a majority in most of arab countries.

Maria

 

Modern Lebanon's constitution, was drawn up in 1926.It specified a balance of political power among the "major" religious groups.

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The flag of Lebanon was adopted on December 7, 1943. It was first drawn in Deputy Saeb Salam's house in Mousaitbeh by the deputies of the Lebanese parliament.

The flag is formed of two horizontal red stripes enveloping a horizontal white stripe. The white stripe is to be two times a red one (ratio 1:2:1). The green cedar in the middle touches both red stripes and its width is one third of the width of the flag. (The description of the flag is cited in the Lebanese Constitution, Chapter 1, Article 5.)
It is a common mistake to draw the branches of the cedar in brown or black. Nevertheless the mistake is unconstitutional. The cedar must be full green.
The red stripes symbolize the pure blood shed in the aim of liberation. The white stripe symbolizes peace, and the white snow covering Lebanon's mountains. The green cedar (Arz) (Species: Cedrus libani or Lebanon Cedar) symbolizes immortality and steadiness. This cedar is referenced many times in the Bible: "The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon" (Psalms 92:12).
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That's a nice smart remark I didn't argue about stereotyping of Brazilian women cuz it's true
Can't u see I argue too much?I guess we can't help it, it's in our veins to be argumentative "sluts" for our man.

Maria