Talk:The Thousand Emirates

Please consult with Steg Belsky (Boroparkpyro) about this article...there were some things that he'd wanted included here. BoArthur 18:55, 7 March 2006 (PST)

Congrats on getting kinks worked out! Looking forward to your contributions and input! Zahir 19:06, 7 March 2006 (PST)

In IB, decimal currencies are rare. I made a proposal based on the former North Yemeni rial *here* Nik 19:10, 7 March 2006 (PST)

This is very different than anything we've discussed before. The Thousand Emirates are (were?) supposed to be a multireligious coalition of many many small and smaller emirates, including Sunni, Shiite, and Jewish (Himyar, specificly) members, which covers the entire southern coast of the Arabian peninsula including "the Yemens" (those emirates in the region historically distinguished as Yemen). Steg, a.k.a. Boroparkpyro 19:37, 8 March 2006 (PST)

Indeed, Steg even wrote about what the thousand emirates should be like back in July 2004. I'm reposting what he wrote for anyone who doesn't want to click the link (although I don't see why *anyone* wouldn't want to, here ;)):

"As far as we know so far, Islam itself is pretty much the same as *here*, although the distributions differ.

The Bedouin Free State is muslim, hence the reference to _Submission_ (=/isla:m/) in their motto "There is no king but God, and Submission to Him is Freedom". Unfortunately i don't know enough Arabic to figure out what it 'actually' is... _laa malik 'ilaa allaah, wal'islaam lahu al_something or other, probably :P

Anyway, there are Sunnis and Shi'ites just like *here*, and there are also extremist Wahhabis. Sa`udi `Arabia is Wahhabi, and is constantly agitating to try and take over the Haashimite Kingdom of the Hijaaz, which is run according to more moderate forms of Islam. They think they'd make better guardians for Mecca and Medina. Sa`udi `Arabia backed Sanjak.

The Thousand Emirates consist of many many small emirates, shaykhdoms, small kingdoms and city-states, among which you can find a wide variety of official Islamic sects.

Lebanon, like *here*, consists of a number of different religious factions, including Sunnis, Shi'ites, Christians, and Druzes, but *there* the Druzes are the dominant force."

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/19746 Doobieous 19:55, 8 March 2006 (PST)

Merge

This might interest mostly to BoArthur and Nik, as they started the articles about Yemen and the United Arab Emirates. Being all these territories located between Northern Yemen and Bahrain *here* and according to what was already told on the Conculture discussion these are The Yemens or The Thousand Emirates *there* I think we all could gather the United Arab emirates, Yemen and The Thousand Emirates articles in a single one so the dispute could be over. In my opinion we could use the old history of Yemen *there* and join it to what was written on the more recent history of the other two articles. Certainly this more recent history should be a bit changed and unified. I will wait for your opinions. User:Pedromoderno 24 May 2006

I would like to see Yemen remain soverign, but I'm fine to see Oman, the UAE and possibly parts of Yemen's territory *here* merged into the Thousand Emirates. But that's my feeling on it. I mostly created Yemen because I was amazed to find out about Himyar *here* and thought with Judea it could have continued to be a power in the region. BoArthur 12:16, 24 May 2006 (PDT)

For me a sovereign Yemen that's OK. Sounds interesting the Jews *there* ruling the country since such old days. But probably the yemeni flag as it appears on FOIB should be more jewish than that old Northern Yemen one. User:Pedromoderno 24 May 2006

Indeed. That flag was most likely created back when we didn't yet "know about" Himyar. BoArthur 12:47, 24 May 2006 (PDT)

I moved this discussion to Conculture. Please, let's all participate. --Pedromoderno 10:16, 28 June 2006 (PDT)