There is much hypocrisy in the muslim world, just as everywhere. I watched the turn of middle class Iranians after the abdication of the Shah. The "across-the border" behavior of young Saudi Sunnis in the modernized gulf states is inconsistent with their home mores.
Shiites in Bahrain are allowd to celebrate their penitent and bloody Ashuram parades which were forbidden in Saudi. The differences between various Muslim branches is quite extreme.
Can someone more familiar with Islam speak to this?
Can someone more familiar with Islam speak to this?
Hopefully, prayerfully, in a generation, there will be no one to answer such questions except the chirping crickets, and the wind, blowing the drifting sand through the rubble and stumps of buildings in what used to be Teheran, etc.
The terms "Shiites" and "Sunnis" might be vaguely remembered as we now may strain to remember Betty Boop and Raggedy Ann.