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Re:MIT Should Not Be Supporting the Saud Monarchy by jasim on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:31PM (#17014070)
Granted we're talking about nations and their peoples and their histories and they are always long, deep, and tangled up and there are no simple truths. I'm aware of the origins of Wahabism through The Arabs (Eugene Rogan). I was looking for individual perspectives than what's easily available online. I've also tried reading up on the animosity between Iran and Saudi, and couldn't find any straight answer.
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Re:MIT Should Not Be Supporting the Saud Monarchy by cuckcuckspruce on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:43PM (#17014183)
Iran is primarily Shi'a and Saudi Arabia is primarily Sunni.
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Re:MIT Should Not Be Supporting the Saud Monarchy by mdahlstrand on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @03:30AM (#17019456)
...which didn't use to be a reason for war. I recommend watching Adam Curtis' Bitter Lake. The west has more involvement in shia/sunni split and hate than it'd like to admit.
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Re:MIT Should Not Be Supporting the Saud Monarchy by zpatel on Monday May 07, 2018 @02:09PM (#17014959)
This is not a sunni shia battle as portrayed by western media.
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