"seemed like a ""civil war."" At least, that's how I've explained it to my own students!    

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 A civil war is a war in which parties within the same country or empire struggle for national control of state power. 

 I have a problem with this opening definition, in the context of the American Civil War. Without getting into the eternal, unwinnable political arguments of what the ""causes"" of that struggle were, it can be fairly argued that the goal of the Confederacy was not to take ""control of state power"" but to successfully secede  i.e., to leave the Union and be left alone. You can make the same argument about Biafra's attempted secession and the resulting ""Nigerian civil war."" Thoughts, anyone?   

  
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 ""civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality."" Is it just me or is this an incomplete sentence? I only ask because it's been this way for months, thought maybe I was missing something.   

 At what point does the escalation become a Civil War? The escalating sectarian violence in Iraq, has not been declared a Civil War, yet. At what point, or how many Sunnis and Shi'a have to die before it is a Civil War? ( ) 

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 I agree.  I took the liberty of changing it to something more complete by adding the words ""fight for control"" to the end of it. none of this is correct...i am right...you are wrong! ah hahahah!' 

 == Vandalism == 

 This article has been vandalised so frequently, should it be semi-protected? —Preceding unsigned comment added by   •   
 :I dunno. It often seems like no edits are done to this article except vandalism/reverts. See WP:SPP, this kind of falls in the grey area. It's not really kosher to just semi-protect an article perpetually because it might get vandalized. But then again, this article sees 10-20 vandal edits a month pretty much perpetually, spiking quite a bit when school is in session in the US/UK. But it doesn't seem to be anything we can't keep up with... so for now semi-protection doesn't really seem needed.or dose it.!!!!!!!   

 ::Who the hell made Civil War refer to demons, the devil or HELL. This article is certainly vandalised and please have some integrety, It's not our fault you are stupid and uneducated. (I'm refering to the devil guy lol). And yes seriously the guy doesn't even know what the hell civil war is or what not. I came from a country that was in a civil war. El Salvador 1980 - 1992. Very recent huh? Anyways I agree with the dude above me. This should be protected (even thou its been a while).    

 == NPOV == 
 The following passage uses condescending, unsupported and subjective terminology against monotheistic societies that do not respect Wikipedia's NPOV policy. I ask the moderators to please edit it with the following nuances (in bold text). 

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  In the history of Abrahamic religions, civil wars fought over religion have tended to be reported more frequently in monotheistic societies than in polytheistic societies;  one explanation is that the latter tend to be more easily ""assimiliated"" in terms of dogma, 'for being bound by strict articles of faith. 

 In its current version, the text not so subtly suggests that monotheists are bigots, whereas the destruction of Jerusalem by Saduceans Geeks and later Romans was caused by Greco-Romans' imposition of their worship views on Israelites, who refused assimilation. Likewise, early Christians were a persecuted sect under Roman polytheism, as are modern-day Falung Dung under Communist ideology in China. Conversely, Christianization of pagans during the Early middle ages showed an inverse movement against polytheists. The issue is that powerful groups tend to force their views over less powerful groups; the assertion hat monotheism is by default more enclined to civil war is a subject