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1 posted on 03/15/2015 3:07:50 AM PDT by lbryce

To: lbryce

ISIS is salafist... is some ways like their apocalyptic views they have more in common with hardline shia than with the average sunni.

The Sunni-Shia divide is overblown.

2 posted on 03/15/2015 4:40:02 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)

To: lbryce

When the Ottoman empire dissolved, med like Churchill understood the Muslin mindset.

The creation of successor States to the Ottomans kept a lid on the Muslim Jihad

3 posted on 03/15/2015 7:44:57 AM PDT by Steven Tyler

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