Comments on: The Lowdown on the Shiite-Sunni Divide http://www.openculture.com/2007/02/the_lowdown_on_.html The best free cultural & educational media on the web Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:57:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joe http://www.openculture.com/2007/02/the_lowdown_on_.html#comment-2240 Joe Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:38:56 +0000 http://www.colmanonline.com/2007/02/the_lowdown_on_the_shiite-sunni_divide.html#comment-2240 Really, who cares? 10/20 years ago, subjects like this were of merely academic or anthropological interest: how primitive tribes live their lives, and hate others. Whats happened is Islam has assumed centre stage in international politics, with a frontline advocate of terrorism who are a substantial minority on the same ideological spectrum: we have the Truth, the rest of you do not. Sunni, wahabee shia, shmia: its all Moslem, and I am sick of seeing it within politics and current affairs when just recently it would only have been an anthropological interest. Really, who cares? 10/20 years ago, subjects like this were of merely academic or anthropological interest: how primitive tribes live their lives, and hate others. Whats happened is Islam has assumed centre stage in international politics, with a frontline advocate of terrorism who are a substantial minority on the same ideological spectrum: we have the Truth, the rest of you do not.

Sunni, wahabee shia, shmia: its all Moslem, and I am sick of seeing it within politics and current affairs when just recently it would only have been an anthropological interest.

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