Far fetched.Maybe not. The Islamic religion is generally speaking, made up of two sects. The Sunni about 85% and the Shia 15% of the populations.They consist of benign but absolute monarchies, dictatorships both military and otherwise, pseudo democracies and democracies and at least one theocracy and Iraq.
The shias are by far the largest sect in Iran (almost 100%) and the majority of muslims in Iraq are Shias.The Shias hold their Imams as infallible but the Sunni do not hold that view of their religious leaders.
The two sects are not always friendly to each other. In fact there have been times when there is violence between them, especially Sunni against Shia There have been huge killing sprees over religion. Note that right now each sect is massacering the other in Iraq for whatever reason.
But right now something has changed. Hezbollah (Shia)has joined forces with Hamas (Sunni). Sunni Syria is helping Shia Hezbolla.
Iran is trying for the bomb. Muslim Pakistan has it.
2006-07-19
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