...”It’s like trying to set up a single nation containing Jews and Germans after a thousand years of Holocausts”...
Excellent anology Zhang....the battle will rage on which side gets to own Islam.
As Muslims go, Shiites are pretty ecumenical. Iran takes a hard line on apostasy, and missionary activity to convert Muslims to any other religion, but that's about the extent of really hard-line Shiite religious fervor. But it's not really clear that this is what the Shiite masses want. I really don't hear too much about Shiites going after other religions in either Lebanon or Iraq. Whereas the stories of Sunnis going after Shiites, and non-Muslims - on their own initiative, as well as with the tacit support of the state - are too many to count. While we should take out the Iranian nuke program, the real ticking time bomb is the seething Sunni masses.