Blue: Druze
Yellow: Greek Orthodox
Brown: Syriac Orthodox
Red: Maronite
Dark purple: Roman Catholic
Light purple: Evangelical
Light Orange: Armenian Orthodox
Light Yellow: Armenian Catholic
The dominant ethnic group is Arab, but also other groups such as Armenians and Kurds are treated
equally and enjoys full freedom and representation.
Religious and ethnic divisions that is represented at political, economic, cultural, and other levels
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At political level:
The political system guarantees the equal and proportional representations of sects based on equal
division between Muslims and Christians. In what is known as the quota system or the power sharing
agreement.
For example: The President is a Christian Maronite, Speaker of the Parliament is a Shite Muslim, and
the Prime Minsiter is a Sunni Muslim.
This division can be reflected in all bureaucratic positions from ministries, state institutions, security,
etc… and of course proportional to each sect according to its number. For example
Commander of the Army: Maronite
Deputy commander of the Army: Druze
Commander of the police: Sunni
Deputy PM: Greek Orthodox
Deputy Speaker of the parliament: Greek Catholic
The Cabinet is also divided equally between Christians and Muslim with fair proportional
representations of sects according to their number.
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At economic level:
There is no discrimination against any sect, all sects have their own businesses at national level and
operates freely. There is no advantage of one sect over another in laws, practices, or traditions.
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At religious and cultural levels:
There is utmost freedom for all sects to freely practice their faith and freely build their religious sites.
The country celebrates all religious celebrations (official holidays) of all sects: for example: Lebanese
celebrates ytwo Easter vacations: one for the orthodox and one for the Catholic (and you can iimagine
the number of public holidays that exist in this country).
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