Sectarian Soccer
July 8th, 2008 by Adam
At Counterpunch, Karim Makdisi has an interesting article examining the relationship between Lebanon’s perpetual sectarian strife and soccer. Makdisi asserts that Lebanon’s sectarian tensions have permeated the nation’s soccer, and instead of it being an avenue for national unity, it has become merely another sectarian battleground. He then concludes by castigating Lebanon’s leaders for using soccer to, “…further division amongst the country’s soccering communities that would preserve their power and their stranglehold in formulating, and sustaining, Lebanon’s fragile sectarian identity.”
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