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Originally posted by johnny:
What seems a bit strange to me is their their selective anger when it comes to attacking mosques. If a coalition plane or tank were to hit a mosque, the entire islamic world would be enraged, and we'd see the usual yelling, shooting in the air, and flagburning rituals we've seen so many times before. But now two mainstream islamic factions have an arguement with eachother, suddenly the mosques aren't that holy and sacred to them anymore. 
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Johnny, Muslims have always committed worse atrocities and on a larger scale to each other than to anyone else. Sunnis don't even regard Shiites as true Muslims, they're heretics in their eyes. Heretics are worse than unbelievers.
Have a read about what happened in Saudi Arabia when the Wahabbists came to power. It's frightening.
It's so depressing. The whole thing.
You know part of the blame has to lie in the initial UN border creation after the Ottoman Empire fell. Why even create nations at all? Nations are a western construct. Just leave them in their tribal or pseudo-religious affiliations rather than draw imaginary lines in the desert that lump arch enemies together in the same nation.
Same goes for creating Kuwait - source of the initial Gulf War in the first place. Who the heck decided that a tiny part of mesopotamia: conveniently oil rich - should be seperate from the majority of people in the area?
It's messed up. The whole thing is messed up.