When will Obama initiate action in this country? Or is this action just limited to Muslim countries with the exception of Iran?

(03-29-2011 07:54 PM)The WEST is the BEST Wrote:  When will Obama initiate action in this country? Or is this action just limited to Muslim countries with the exception of Iran?

Well Ivory Coast has plenty of Muslims, more than any other faith. What it lacks is Oil.... So I guss Obama is only interested in war's for Oil..

(03-29-2011 08:06 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(03-29-2011 07:54 PM)The WEST is the BEST Wrote:  When will Obama initiate action in this country? Or is this action just limited to Muslim countries with the exception of Iran?

Well Ivory Coast has plenty of Muslims, more than any other faith. What it lacks is Oil.... So I guss Obama is only interested in war's for Oil..

Need to check your facts. Only 20% of population is Muslim. Most people practice tribal religions. In addition, Cote D'Ivorie is oil rich. Significant oil as a matter of fact. Western companies are waiting in line to enter the country once a stable government is in place.

(03-29-2011 09:04 PM)The WEST is the BEST Wrote:  

(03-29-2011 08:06 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(03-29-2011 07:54 PM)The WEST is the BEST Wrote:  When will Obama initiate action in this country? Or is this action just limited to Muslim countries with the exception of Iran?

Well Ivory Coast has plenty of Muslims, more than any other faith. What it lacks is Oil.... So I guss Obama is only interested in war's for Oil..

Need to check your facts. Only 20% of population is Muslim. Most people practice tribal religions. In addition, Cote D'Ivorie is oil rich. Significant oil as a matter of fact. Western companies are waiting in line to enter the country once a stable government is in place.

Well Color Wiki Embarrassed
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire)
Religion in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Religion Percent
Islam
38.6%
Christianity
32.8%
African Indigenous
11.9%
None
16.7%

(03-29-2011 09:04 PM)The WEST is the BEST Wrote:  

(03-29-2011 08:06 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(03-29-2011 07:54 PM)The WEST is the BEST Wrote:  When will Obama initiate action in this country? Or is this action just limited to Muslim countries with the exception of Iran?

Well Ivory Coast has plenty of Muslims, more than any other faith. What it lacks is Oil.... So I guss Obama is only interested in war's for Oil..

Need to check your facts. Only 20% of population is Muslim. Most people practice tribal religions. In addition, Cote D'Ivorie is oil rich. Significant oil as a matter of fact. Western companies are waiting in line to enter the country once a stable government is in place.

Muslim 38.6%, Christian 32.8%, indigenous 11.9%, none 16.7% (2008 est.)
note: the majority of foreigners (migratory workers) are Muslim (70%) and Christian (20%)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications...os/iv.html

While the CITIZENS of Ivory Coast might be Muslim by a slight plurality, the key is the second part. Muslim illegal immigrants have been flooding the country from Mali and Burkina Faso for decades now. Some were given citizenship while many others are still illegal. The civil war taking place there is to decide if Ivory Coast will remain a country for Christian Ivorians or will it be overrun and subjugated by Muslim invaders from the north. A similar scenario has been playing out across sub-saharan Africa in places like the Sudan and Ethiopia.

I hope the U.S. stays out of this one because we have a track record of supporting Muslims at the expense of Christians. We supported the Muslims in Bosnia and did nothing while the Christians of Iraq were slaughtered by militants.

(03-29-2011 09:53 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(03-29-2011 09:04 PM)The WEST is the BEST Wrote:  

(03-29-2011 08:06 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(03-29-2011 07:54 PM)The WEST is the BEST Wrote:  When will Obama initiate action in this country? Or is this action just limited to Muslim countries with the exception of Iran?

Well Ivory Coast has plenty of Muslims, more than any other faith. What it lacks is Oil.... So I guss Obama is only interested in war's for Oil..

Need to check your facts. Only 20% of population is Muslim. Most people practice tribal religions. In addition, Cote D'Ivorie is oil rich. Significant oil as a matter of fact. Western companies are waiting in line to enter the country once a stable government is in place.

Well Color Wiki Embarrassed
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire)
Religion in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Religion Percent
Islam
38.6%
Christianity
32.8%
African Indigenous
11.9%
None
16.7%

Those figures differ with other figures that I'm familiar with. Having worked there I also disagree with those figures. Those citizens that practice the Catholic faith combine it with tribal religions. It has very little in common with the Catholic faith. This is quite common in Africa.

Religions


The Ivory Coast practices many different beliefs. 60% of the population practices their traditional beliefs that were developed in their villages many years ago. Out of the Ivory Coast population, 6,670,912 million, about 20% practice the Muslim religion. These would mean covering your whole body in cloth if you were women. Only about 10% of the people practice Christianity and Roman Catholicism. Even though only a small percentage of the population practices Christianity, the largest Christian church in all of Africa is located in Yamoussoukro. This church is called Our Lady of Peace, and people from far away sometimes go there to worship their Lord. Many beliefs are practiced in this country.
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002335/Iv...Coast.html



You also ignored the other part of my response concerning oil.

(03-29-2011 10:13 PM)The WEST is the BEST Wrote:  Those figures differ with other figures that I'm familiar with. Having worked there I also disagree with those figures.

Your disagreement does *not* make the figures wrong.... I live in the upper mid west, in my experience this nation is less than 5% Hispanic and mostly Lutheran... My sister living in Cali might have a different take.

Quote:The Ivory Coast practices many different beliefs. 60% of the population practices their traditional beliefs that were developed in their villages many years ago. Out of the Ivory Coast population, 6,670,912 million, about 20% practice the Muslim religion.
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002335/Iv...Coast.html

Ill Take the CIA Wold FactBook over Think Quest. Especially when the motto of ThinkQuest is "Projects by Students for Students"

Quote:You also ignored the other part of my response concerning oil.

Ok, Ill own up to that, I noticed that the IC was not among the top 50 in world oil reserves (They have .02%). Because they were behind such Oil Rich juggernauts as Germany and Denmark I thought that one might not engage in a war for oil there.

They do have Oil, 169 times *less* than Libya..

Isn't France all up Ivory Coast's butt?