Built it. Baghdad is apparently going to lay down as ISIS/L approaches.
As I was saying, as a Texan, this removes the halt in the momentum of eradication like when we used to have to ask Comanche? Apache? Cherokee? 150 years ago.
And I’m going to study: just how constructed is this Sunni/Shia schism?? Who built THAT?
The Sunni/Shia schism dates to Mohammed’s death in 632 AD.
If you are really interested, check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_to_Muhammad
These murderous bastards have been at war with each other, and Western Civilization, since 622 AD!
270 million dead since 622 AD (when Mohammed was evicted FRom Mecca and moved to Medina!) Mohammed’s preaching was not working, so he was evicted FRom Mecca. Once in Medina, he and his followers took up arms and FRom then on, the evil cult of Islam was spread by the sword.
And then, he died, in 632 AD without a named heir.
The world has had 1382 years of rape murder and mayhem at the hands of the followers of Mohammed!
Literally, there has not been peace in the world since 622 AD, when Mohammed realized that preaching did not work and that “death or Islam” was the way to spread his cult to the rest of the world.
And, the Ophonybama Regime apologists, the John Effing Kerry’s and the Hitlery Clinton’s of the world think that WE can solve the Islamic problems!
No FRicking way!
I’m going to study: just how constructed is this Sunni/Shia schism?? Who built THAT?
That schism has been going on for a very long time:
Why the Sunnis and Shites hate and kill each other, courtesy of Fitzy_888 :
This blood feud dates from the beginning of Islam, a tribe that would later be Sunni’s from Syria beheaded Mohammed’s grandson (the Mohammed) and brought his head to Damascus as a trophy. Sunni’s broke the blood line of the prophet, this is why zealous Shiites will kill Syrian Sunni’s with zeal. It dates back to the four caliph, under the fourth successor to Mohammed, Mohammed’s cousin...also his son-in-law. Mohammed’s cousin married Mohammed’s daughter Fatima, their son and heir to the Islamic caliphate was killed by a tribe from present day Syria who would later identify as Sunni.
Iran having a Shiite majority already has military forces fighting ISIS (Sunni) in Syria along side their
proxy Hezzbulah.
All eyes have been on ISIS as the jihadist group, in a matter of days, cut Iraq in half and declared its own state in the cities it captured. With fewer than 10,000 fighters ISIS forced the retreat of the better-armed Iraqi army forces many times its size. Their incredible success on the battlefield has fed into a growing lore about the group: the small band of fanatics that can take down a country. The truth is more basic and it’s something ISIS doesn’t want to admit—they weren’t acting alone.
It wasn’t having God on their side that let ISIS conquer Mosul and Tikrit with hardly a fight, analysts say. It was the other Sunni insurgent groups that were there alongside them, unacknowledged partners in the coalition. Those groups have deep organizational roots and were instrumental in the takeover but have been largely overshadowed by ISIS.
The standoff in Iraq isn’t between a single militant group and the government. There is a broad coalition of Sunni groups—both nationalist and Islamist—who had been plotting against Iraq’s Shia government for years before ISIS’s rise provided the chance to strike. ISIS and its partners are unnatural allies. Maintaining their unity was the key to their early success, and is the only way they can hold the ground they have taken, but that incentive may prove to be weaker than the force of their natural hostilities.
“ISIS control in Mosul is contingent on political alliances they have made with the Baathists and the tribal groups,” said Brian Fishman, a fellow at the New America Foundation, who has been following ISIS since the group’s early days during the Iraq war.