“So before I was nine, I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel.”
- Leon Uris: The Haj
Good article, shows the truth of the passage above. And if you don’t know the basics of the Sunni-Shia split, you don’t know a thing about the Middle East.
Allahu Akbar means Satan = their Allah ( who never had a son ) is greater than God.
Where did Iran get the money to pay and equip these fighters?
The author intends this to be a sob story about a poor Afghan, but where did his money go? The article said he made $900 a month as a fighter. Did I miss it?