Survey lists most world's most repressive regimes

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/6/08 | Barry Schweid - ap

[Uncle Miltie]

Cuba - Communist
Libya - Islamic
Myanmar - Militarist
North Korea - Communist
Somalia - Islamic
Sudan - Islamic
Turkmenistan - Islamic
Uzbekistan - Islamic

[Inyo-Mono]

I’d say none of them have a 2nd Amendment.

[Uncle Miltie]

Belarus - Communist
Chad - Islamic
China - Communist
Equitorial Guinea - Ya got me there!
Eritrea - Islamic
Laos - Communist
Saudi Arabia - Islamic
Syria - Islamic
Zimbabwe - Communist (essentially)

[mvonfr]

Somalia - Islamic Was it not liberated by Ethiopia already? Strange.

[NormsRevenge]

Now Now,

one mustn’t allow one to become overly suspicious
just because a pattern is developing. ;-)

[erikm88]

From the way the libs speak, you’d think the U.S. would be on that list...

[Uncle Miltie]

Update: Myanmar is at least Socialist, a short step from Communist.

[marktwain]

“Eritrea - Islamic”

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I thought Eritrea was communist. Marxist in fact.

[Sherman Logan]

Eritrea - Islamic

Actually, it's 50/50 Muslim/Christian.

[Uncle Miltie]

I’m reporting either political system when Communist, or primary Religion when Islamic.

I think that forms a trend in the data that is hard to miss.

[trumandogz]

Wow, I have been to three of those places!

[decal]

“I thought Eritrea was communist. Marxist in fact.”

Ethiopia certainly was at the time they broke away.

[Rembrandt]

Have a link? Thanks.

[Uncle Miltie]

You are probably right. I took the lead religion from the CIA Fact Book which reports:

“Muslim, Coptic Christian, Roman Catholic, Protestant”

Here: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/er.html#People

[marktwain]

Here is a description of the Eritrean government from the CIA world book:

note: following a successful referendum on independence for the Autonomous Region of Eritrea on 23-25 April 1993, a National Assembly, composed entirely of the People's Front for Democracy and Justice or PFDJ, was established as a transitional legislature; a Constitutional Commission was also established to draft a constitution; ISAIAS Afworki was elected president by the transitional legislature; the constitution, ratified in May 1997, did not enter into effect, pending parliamentary and presidential elections; parliamentary elections were scheduled in December 2001, but were postponed indefinitely; currently the sole legal party is the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ)”

[Uncle Miltie]

I think you’re right on Eritrean communism. From the CIA Fact Book:

following a successful referendum on independence for the Autonomous Region of Eritrea on 23-25 April 1993, a National Assembly, composed entirely of the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice or PFDJ, was established as a transitional legislature; a Constitutional Commission was also established to draft a constitution; ISAIAS Afworki was elected president by the transitional legislature; the constitution, ratified in May 1997, did not enter into effect, pending parliamentary and presidential elections; parliamentary elections were scheduled in December 2001, but were postponed indefinitely; currently the sole legal party is the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ)

[Uncle Miltie]

Dude, that was like, De Ja Vu-iness!

[from occupied ga]

What about MA, MD, NY, and NJ?

[dhs12345]

Yeah. You must be an Islamophobe.

... ignore the man behind the curtain.