Posted on 06/13/2014 8:52:57 PM PDT by xzins
“I have long written here on FR that those 3 people cannot get along and will war against each other. The Brits weren’t real smart after WWI about the way they broke up the Ottoman Empire.”
xzins, this interesting history was provided by fitzy_888 this week to back what you have been posting for a long time re the Sunnis and Shites:
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.
“Interesting that the Sunni Saudi Arabian government doesn’t get mentioned.”
The Opecker Princes aka Sunnis have owned Carter and Clinton for decades and the green eco terrorists who hate America.
Now one of their own Sunnis is our Potus.
How can McCain be for bombing the ISIS terrorist when they came from Syria where they were his Freedom Fighter friends? But we are talking about John McCain. Rationality does not apply.
The 3 major people groups are Kurds, Sunnis, and Shias. The Assyrian Christians are a 3rd, but their numbers are so small that any homeland they might dream of will be a “better city whose builder and maker is God.”
The Brits did a terrible job after WWI. The Kurds will not back down. They’ve been persecuted too long not to seize this opportunity.
Ping to #44.
I agree with your post, Grampa Dave. The enmity between Sunni and Shiite goes all the way back to the early days of Islam.
Although I certainly agree that nobama is muslim, from what we can see he is more aligned with the shites and Iran.
He may have indeed given a wink and nod to these ISIS folks, but with the endgame thinking it will give Iran an excuse to invade and conquer Iraq.
Regardless, its mighty sweet to see them doing a great job of massacring one another. Keep up the good work!
“How can McCain be for bombing the ISIS terrorist when they came from Syria where they were his Freedom Fighter friends? But we are talking about John McCain. Rationality does not apply.”
Isn’t it amazing that ABCNNBCBS, the Compost, NY and LA Slimes and other left wing mediots haven’t pointed the savages McAinal was with and praising are the same animals beheading Iraqis?
Well that about says it all. Obama released the ISIS leader who now is launching an Islamist Caliphate right before our eyes in the country we spent may thousand lives to quell.
The Press will not be able to shield him from this when more brave Americans return from Iraq in body bags trying to turn back the new Islamist Government that has risen from the choices directly made by Obama.
“Iraq will then have a 3 part dividing: Kurdish, Sunni, and Shia regions of the country.”
So old Joe Biden was right then folks.
As I’ve pointed out a few times today, that idea was discussed on Free Republic long before joe biden got ahold of it. FR archives can be checked to verify it.
We were tri-partite before balkanization of Iraq was cool.
Looks like the al-Baghdadi guy is going to force it.
They will need de-militarized zones for the new three states.
I say let the UN enforce them.
Jacob Siegel, shilling for Iran in The Daily Beast:
> 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.
Utter BS.
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