Sunni/Shia is one of those faux-in depth analyses that news heads use to sound more informed.
A) Majority one nations still have the other, often large populations of--like Iraq for example. B) Fuckers like Al-Qaeda don't automatically get support of all Sunni because they're Sunni too, goddamn. That's literally like saying half of Europe has to support Mormons cause they're all technically protestant.
This essentially runs interference for the political explanations for conflict which necessarily indicts the US & West at every fucking turn by pretending its some intractable religious divide they didn't cause. Yeah, Iran totally hates the Saudis for being Sunni, not being a giant US military base
edit: and sunni and shia are enormous fucking categories with tons of branches. it's lazy as fuck to bisect the world like this
Though the Wahabist Saudis are explicitly anti-shia. They even despise preserving cultural heritage because they see it as praying to false gods(haze what they did to mekka fuck the saudis). They are the most hardcore of the hardcore sunnis.
Contrast that to hanafism which is badically the opposite and pracriced in every turkish-sunii group(from xinjiang to istanbul), which is basically like "just saying you believe in god is enough for us.".
Iran, just to complete it, follows the 12er Shia. The believe in the 11 dead Imams and the one who is "escaped" and will return at the promised day. Not to be confused with the ismaelites who i don't actually know how relevant they are today.
Sunni/Shia is one of those faux-in depth analyses that news heads use to sound more informed.
A) Majority one nations still have the other, often large populations of--like Iraq for example. B) Fuckers like Al-Qaeda don't automatically get support of all Sunni because they're Sunni too, goddamn. That's literally like saying half of Europe has to support Mormons cause they're all technically protestant.
This essentially runs interference for the political explanations for conflict which necessarily indicts the US & West at every fucking turn by pretending its some intractable religious divide they didn't cause. Yeah, Iran totally hates the Saudis for being Sunni, not being a giant US military base
edit: and sunni and shia are enormous fucking categories with tons of branches. it's lazy as fuck to bisect the world like this
Though the Wahabist Saudis are explicitly anti-shia. They even despise preserving cultural heritage because they see it as praying to false gods(haze what they did to mekka fuck the saudis). They are the most hardcore of the hardcore sunnis.
Contrast that to hanafism which is badically the opposite and pracriced in every turkish-sunii group(from xinjiang to istanbul), which is basically like "just saying you believe in god is enough for us.".
Iran, just to complete it, follows the 12er Shia. The believe in the 11 dead Imams and the one who is "escaped" and will return at the promised day. Not to be confused with the ismaelites who i don't actually know how relevant they are today.
you mean the destruction of historic sites or the fucking clock tower?
nevertheless absolutely fuck them lmao
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