Interesting to see Syria there, a country "officially at war" with Israel but music breaks boundaries where politicians fail! Rock on Orphaned Land!!
Erm, that map with religions... Indeed some bold generalisations and on the other hand some stuff left out:
- Wahhabi branch of Islam is very very strict (strict segregation of genders, whole social life is based around Islam, strict interpretation of the Sharia) ... To put very liberal and secular countries such as Turkey in the same colour and thus same category as Saudi Arabia is crazy.
- Northern Ireland is coloured as protestant. The 49% of Catholics striving for a united Ireland won't be too happy with that generalisation
(I lived in Belfast, still a very hot topic there, religion that is)
- some pagan and nature religions in Africa not included in the poll
- Judaism: where's the different branches such as orthodox, chassidist, liberal, secular, reform ?? Which is the branch again that doesn't do the brit milah ; is that reform or liberal Judaism?
- India categorised as hindu while the religious diversity there is so big that it's hardly possible to list all religions practised in India
- Atheists (the category to whom I subscribe) are left out as we are jammed in the "no dominant religion" category. Agnostism, atheism or no dominant religion are totally different things.
- Scientology is left out? Or would the map consider this as a cult rather than a real religion?
Sorry for being an*l here, but for the sake of political correctness
Great map anyways!
