Likewise, long-standing tensions between Bahrain’s ruling Sunni minority and Shia majority have worsened since the country’s Shia-led pro-democracy movement was crushed in 2011. As for Jordan, the precarious balance between the Palestinian majority and the Bedouin minority was difficult enough to maintain in stable times; it is a far more precarious undertaking now.
类似地，巴林执政的少数派逊尼派和多数派什叶派之间长期存在对立，2011年，什叶派领导的民主运动的爆发让这一对立跟家紧张了。还有约旦，多数派巴勒斯坦人和少数派贝多因人之间的微妙平衡在稳定时期便已极难维持；如今更是岌岌可危。