Sunni,s ( Isis ) Killing ***. Understanding The Middle East

[dieseldick]

so we see isis beheading the children of shiites and generally slaughtering other muslims, we all know they have a deep rooted hatred for christians / jews etc but muslims killing muslims i cant understand it.

so we have isis, then we have the *** dominant iran . why is iran sitting back and letting this happen ?

[Peter Pedant]

Muslimms killing muslims.... think inquisition ....

they a re doing it as they consider the victims are heretics/apostates.

//why is iran sitting back and letting this happen ?// why is America letting this happen ? or the UK ? presumably it is the public unacceptibility of casualties. Iran lost 1m in their last war with Iraq

[dieseldick]

iran will not be going to war with iraq, it will be waging a war with isis alongside syria , surely ?

[Old_Geezer]

Power /control /having your view the dominant one. Both being the same declared religion won't change that. I assume no one in the area feels competent to stamp it out. Things are rarely simple, but one wonders how much one can tweak the US tail before they feel a need to get more involved.

[naomi24]

Animosity between Sunni and Shia emanates from a dispute over Mohammed’s legitimate successor around 1500 years ago. That’s how long these two factions have been in disagreement.

[sevenOP]

The Middle East is a Western construct, full of Western weapons and Western created monsters, monsters that the petrodollar rich dictators that the West is 'friendly' to have supported and contributed to.


It suits the West to have selected dictators and to support their radical Islam Nationalism for secular Nationalism could threaten to take over their own regional resources and use it for the benefit of their own population and not the oil companies and the small number of dictators who run things for the West.

[boxtops]

Agree with naomi, there's nothing new here.

[Hopkirk]

Apparently Iran isn't just sitting back and letting it happen, they are now getting involved.

[keyplus90]

world politics.

[naomi24]

Keyplus, the sheer barbarism of IS can under no circumstances be attributed to world politics.

[RATTER15]

//Keyplus, the sheer barbarism of IS can under no circumstances be attributed to world politics.//

I agree, it can only be attributed to the normal savagery of Muslims, they will never be happy unless they are beheading or killing somebody! A disgrace to the human race, even animals dont behave this way!