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This year Northern Ireland turned 100. And much like Australia day, many celebrate — but many have regrets too. There's a fragile peace in Northern Ireland, after 40 years of violence in the troubles, and challenges remain today: from Brexit to the dream of a united Ireland. On God Forbid, James Carleton and the panel explore questions of identity, conflict, religion, and peace in Northern Ireland — but with universal lessons.

This Thursday MOI welcomes Dalal Mawad to the pod. We discuss the style and structure of the body politic in Lebanon, how this affects the style of Lebanese journalism, its history and civil war, sectarian politics, society, the Beirut Explosion, and the current state and future of Lebanon. All this and more this Thursday on MOI!

Merci beaucoup, Dalal!

Belfast is kaleidoscopic — a product born out of contested histories and the desire to break free from it. As Northern Ireland commemorates 100 years since partition, take a journey through a city that is shedding its historical sectarian binaries.

There are multiple aspects to this concern. One is that “inherently by being religious you’re X religion and therefore not Y religion, placing people into categories or camps of Us and Them, which makes religion essentially divisive.” So to be secular is seen as being neutral. We'll examine the Bahá'í Writings and see what they say on this issue as we try to resolve this understandable apprehension.

Sections:

1.  2:16 Empathy and Agreement 
2.  17:11 The 6 O'clock News and Masks of Madness
3.  20:43 False Neutrality - "I'm Out of the Frying Pan!"
4.  29:44 The Problem of No Options
5.  42:50 What Won't Work
6.  44:17 The Equation!
7.  59:25 Nuclear Energy
8.  1:09:41 Magic Pill
9.  1:12:25 The Root: Prejudice
10.  1:23:00 Come On - That's Never Going to Happen
11.  1:32:54 The Body-Count of Apathy

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