Saturday December 22, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

The Iranian press has been full of the picture of Ahmadinejad at the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to the Kaabah in the Saudi city of Mecca.
Press from other Arab countries has picked up the story.
The photo of Ahmadinejad has been plastered across the Arab world.

Why all this publicity for Ahmadinejad?
Because the Arab world is afraid of Shiite Iran.
Because the Saudis think an invite to Islam's holiest site - in the center of the Sunni capital - will placate Iran.

Ahmadinejad was honored and pleased.
He looked uncharacteristically neat and fashionable - wearing an all-white tunic and sandals and sporting a groomed beard and cropped hair.

But the Shiites hate the Sunnis and the Sunnis hate the Shiites.
It all dates back to the conflict over the succession of Muhammad.
The Shiites lost and the Sunnis massacred the Shiites and their leader Hussein in Karbala.
That piece of history is the most important memory in all of Shiite tradition.

The Sunnis are right in fearing the Iranians, they are wrong in thinking that the Iranians can be placated.

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