Posted on 03/13/2007 10:25:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
IMAGINE the reaction if Western agents slaughtered a hundred Sunni pilgrims on their way to Mecca. The outrage would spark incendiary rhetoric, riots and revenge killings from Peshawar to Paris.
But when Sunni suicide bombers murdered 118 Shia pilgrims (and wounded almost 200 more) on Tuesday, Sunnis around the globe looked away: Shias only count as Muslims when America can be blamed for their suffering.
Many of those Shia victims of religious totalitarianism were traveling on foot to Karbala to honor Mohammed's grandson Hussein - who was butchered by the founders of Sunni Islam, to whom power was worth more than the Prophet's family.
The hatred goes deep.
The Sunni Arab campaign against Shias isn't just a struggle for political advantage: It reflects an impulse to genocide. And it makes a grim joke of claims of Muslim unity.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
If every Muslim killed just one other Muslim, that would do nicely...
No, it simply proves that, when all the dust settles, that entire area of the world has no nations, only tribes with flags.
Sunni, Shi'ite; toe-may-toe, toe-mah-to; pop or soda; hogie or poorboy, doesn't matter. Any excuse will serve when it comes to tribal warfare. Clearly Islam is the perfect religion for that area -- look how long its served as cover for those tribes with flags.
I want my five minutes back. This is fine but Ralph Peters is a professional liar. This had nothing to do with Saudi Arabia- oh I forgot, because the Saudis are Sunni, this means that everytime Sunnis perpetrate violence, this DIRECTLY ties them to Saudi Arabia. Such pathetic arguments illustrate the desperate foolishness of some to tar their Middle Eastern villain of the month. Pathetic.
gee, you're saying that like it's a "bad" thing....taking something good and somehow making it..... un-good.
Actually it is. The Iranian clericalist regime is an abberation. Shia Islam is a natural ally against Al Qaeda and the other assorted nasties who want a world-wide Caliphate. Unlike Sunni Islam, traditionally, it admitted a separation between the political and the religious.
Grand Ayatollah Al Sistani, who is regarded by Shia outside Iran (not just in Iraq) as much more authoritative than the Iranian mullahs (and probably secretly by a lot of Shi'ites inside Iran, too), has been objectively pro-US since the invasion of Iraq, except for a two to three month period last year when he tried to get Al Sadr to rejoin Iraqi civil society. The failure of that outreach to Al Sadr led him to back the current security crack-down, which in turn got Al Malaliki on board.
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