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A comment on Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Cold War of Islam.

Re:Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Cold War of Islam by venomsnake on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @12:16PM (#11668299)
> The Islamic Republic of Iran, a Shiite theocracy, claims leadership of the Shiites, which make up roughly 13 percent of Muslims worldwide. For both regimes, religion is an important tool of power.

That is mightily misleading. It is more important what part of the shiites make out of Middle East muslims. Because large parts of the muslim populations live in places like Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh - and from bird's eye - they don't seem to care much about sectarian struggles.

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Re:Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Cold War of Islam by tmptmp on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @12:45PM (#11668553)
>>Because large parts of the muslim populations live in places like Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh - and from bird's eye - they don't seem to care much about sectarian struggles.

Not so much anymore. With the Salafists/Wahabis spreading their hateful agenda against the Shias in these parts of the world in a very big way, there are numerous incidents of mainly Sunnis attacking Shias and a little bit of the other way round too.

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