NOTE: I do not support any such scenerio irl. This would undoubtedly be horrible for everyone involved, and make the situation quite horrible. But that said, morbid curiosity gets the better of us all.
What if there was a partition or political movement in the middle east for Christians all over the region to migrate into one area, and for the muslims of that area to migrate elsewhere? As a sort of equivalent to Pakistan, where muslims from all over south Asia went to Pakistan, and Hindus from Pakistan migrating to India.
This would include all sorts of Christians. Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Maronites, Chaldeans, Christian Arabs, even Copts if Egypt is involved in this. Muslims would include Sunni, Shia, Ibadi, Druze, etc. Jews could go either way.
How could this happen? Maybe if the Ottoman Empire collapses hard on religious lines and not ethnic ones? And where would the area of Christian resettlement be? I was thinking the most plausible area would be the greater Armenia region plus Pontus, or somewhere around there.
And what would the new country be called? And how would it and its Muslim neighbor(s) handle their diplomatic relations from here on out?
What if there was a partition or political movement in the middle east for Christians all over the region to migrate into one area, and for the muslims of that area to migrate elsewhere? As a sort of equivalent to Pakistan, where muslims from all over south Asia went to Pakistan, and Hindus from Pakistan migrating to India.
This would include all sorts of Christians. Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Maronites, Chaldeans, Christian Arabs, even Copts if Egypt is involved in this. Muslims would include Sunni, Shia, Ibadi, Druze, etc. Jews could go either way.
How could this happen? Maybe if the Ottoman Empire collapses hard on religious lines and not ethnic ones? And where would the area of Christian resettlement be? I was thinking the most plausible area would be the greater Armenia region plus Pontus, or somewhere around there.
And what would the new country be called? And how would it and its Muslim neighbor(s) handle their diplomatic relations from here on out?