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Growing strife or growing attention?

Comment comment by bencook2 on 21 February 2007

Is the conflict between Sunni and Shi'a growing or is the reporting of it growing?

The Sunni/Shi'a strife has been violent for ages. No need to think it is more so now than before.

Radical religion be it Islam or other and radical sectarianism be it Sunni or Shi'a is not a new phenomenon.

What is new is the connectedness of the Middle East region. As connectivity penetrates expect more news of instability.

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RE: Growing strife or growing attention? by Bortnyk :: NR6

What is going to happen when the coalition begins to leave Iraq, and Saudi, Jordan, and other Sunni states are faced with Persian/Shia hegemony in Iraq/ Iran and other, lesser Shia Satelite states? Certainly Israel can't afford for any group to have hegemony in the region. Any predictions from better students of Samuel Huntington?

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