Talk:Council of Ministers (Syria)

Titles
Is there a particular reason why we're listing titles in the table (e.g. Dr. so-and-so). The U.S. Cabinet page doesn't list titles, just names. hbdragon88 (talk) 17:47, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The official site of the US Cabinet does not use titles, and neither does its Wikipedia article. The official site of the Syrian Cabinet (and various other cabinets) DOES use titles, and so does its Wikipedia article. Flatterworld (talk) 20:18, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

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Corrections concerning the religion of officers?
From http://www.transcend.org/tms/2013/05/on-the-road-to-damascus/ :

However, Susan Dirgham, a delegate from Australia, offers a qualification:

“Much of the propaganda in Australia that leads to young Sunni Lebanese Australians to go to Syria for jihad relies on claims that in Syria you have an Alawi minority suppressing a Sunni majority. My understanding is that most of the ministers are in fact Sunni and the business elite with the economic power in Syria is also mostly Sunni.

Like the mainstream media, Wikipedia does not present reliable information on this subject. (Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Ministers_(Syria) )

For example,

“The Information Minister, Dr Al-Zouabi, is Sunni (not Alawi, as claimed by Wikipedia).

“The Foreign Minister, Walid Muallem, is Sunni (not Greek Orthodox, as claimed by Wikipedia).

“The Deputy PM and Minister for Economic Affairs Qadri Jamil is Kurdish, as stated, and Communist (not Alawi as claimed by Wikipedia).

“It is interesting that the religion of the Minister for Social Affairs Ms. Kinda Al-Shammat is not listed on the Wikipedia page though one would assume she is Sunni because of her white hijab and the way she wears it.”

--Robert Daoust (talk) 14:34, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Religious sects
This doesn't appear relevant (interesting... maybe). I understand that Syria's going through a civil war where sect/religion has played an increasingly prominent role and this has likely figured into the reasoning for having this column, but to list the sects of each minister is undue and borderline OR. Syria's government setup is unlike that of Lebanon or Iraq, where sectarianism plays an official role and certain ministries go to certain sects. In Syria the sect plays no official role. We wouldn't have this parameter for US cabinet members along the lines of religion or ethnicity or that of any other national cabinet unless we had a Lebanon/Iraq-type case. I opt for removing this column, but will wait a couple days for objections, if any. --Al Ameer (talk) 21:49, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

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