padib said:
They (non-religious) may not express their intolerance with violence, but they express it with repression, fear and paranoia. With suppression and segregation. ISIS are killing christians, but my point is that they are killing Shia. These are muslims. The issue is not one of religion. It's an issue of politics. The shia and sunni in the area ISIS is controlling have been tribes at odds, one repressing the other for political reasons. This needs to be fully understood before putting the blame on religion. |
I have a Masters Degree in History, specialising in antiquity and Islam...
Many factors are at play in the Middle East, religion is a very important one of them. Islam isn't just Shia and Sunni, it runs much deeper than that.
In the Middle East religion and politics go hand in hand by the way... Why seperate them? Do you know what khalif means?