[muawiyah]

Ronald Reagan brought this sort of thing to an end by passing on logistic intelligence to Saddam Hussein.

Still, you really have to watch out for buying into all the Sunni propaganda regarding how crazy the Shi'ites are ~ after all, the Sunni dominated the Iraqi Shia for a thousand years serving as "tax farmers" for the Turks.

[dennisw]

To generalize- The Shiia are the country bumpkins of Islam, the less worldly, more polytheist, less educated and are treated like crap by the Sunnis who are 90% of Islam