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King Abdullah II on Karak church attack

The rarity is the point. Attacks on churches don't happen much in Jordan, a country that has long pitched itself as a stable buffer, so a shooting at a Greek Orthodox funeral in Karak lands as a stress test for how the kingdom runs coexistence when the region leans on it. King Abdullah II's answer was that whoever did it faces the harshest penalties, and that bullets can't split the country. Christians are about 2-3% of Jordan's population. That small a community absorbing a strike like this is what makes the model's durability an open question.

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King Abdullah II on Karak church attack

The rarity is the point. Attacks on churches don't happen much in Jordan, a country that has long pitched itself as a stable buffer, so a shooting at a Greek Orthodox funeral in Karak lands as a stress test for how the kingdom runs coexistence when the region leans on it. King Abdullah II's answer was that whoever did it faces the harshest penalties, and that bullets can't split the country. Christians are about 2-3% of Jordan's population. That small a community absorbing a strike like this is what makes the model's durability an open question.

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