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The US and its allies have fatally underestimated the religious motivation of their adversaries, and lost countless conflicts as a result. The Sunni-Shia divide is as real and as influential as the Catholic-Protestant conflict in the West and the Catholic-Orthodox conflict that dates to the rivalry between Rome and Constantinople and now encompasses the Western Eastern Christian worlds and their worldviews. The West, under US leadership, taking the side of the Sunnis is a huge strategic...

Backgrounder. "You can't tell the players without a scorecard."EconospeakOn The Relationship Between Wahhabism And Salafism J. Barkley Rosser | Professor of Economics and Business Administration James Madison University See also An account by an orthodox Sunni. As-Sunnah Foundation of America Wahhabism: Understanding The Roots And Role Models Of Islamic Extremism  Zubair Qamar, condensed and edited by ASFA staff Then there is the Sunni-Shi'a divide. Al-Islam.org  — Shiite...

How long the Shia rebellion in eastern Saudi Arabia, home to almost all Saudi oil reserves, will be able to maintain an armed resistance to the Saudi military assault is the 10 million barrel a day question. The excuse given by the House of Saud royal family mouthpieces is they were driving the Shia from their ancient homeland for "urban renewal" purposes. Never mind the "renewing" would destroy world heritage sites such as the ancient town of al-Zara, capital of the Shia, Persian province...