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Kolesar

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3. the Wikipedia blurb agrees!
Tue Mar 14, 2017, 08:38 AM
Mar 2017
Sectarianism is a form of bigotry, discrimination, or hatred arising from attaching relations of inferiority and superiority to differences between subdivisions within a group.

That describes the horror that Saudi leaders are inflicting on the rest of Islam. Thomas Friedman wrote about that a few years ago. http://nyti.ms/1NbvygW

...It is not an accident that several thousand Saudis have joined the Islamic
State or that Arab Gulf charities have sent ISIS donations. It is because all
these Sunni jihadist groups — ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Nusra Front — are the
ideological offspring of the Wahhabism injected by Saudi Arabia into mosques
and madrasas from Morocco to Pakistan to Indonesia.
And we, America, have never called them on that — because we’re
addicted to their oil and addicts never tell the truth to their pushers.
“Let’s avoid hyperbole when describing one enemy or potential enemy as
the greatest source of instability,” said Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani
ambassador to Washington, who is an expert on Islam at the Hudson Institute.
“It is an oversimplification,” he said. “While Iran has been a source of
terrorism in supporting groups like Hezbollah, many American allies have
been a source of terrorism by supporting Wahhabi ideology, which basically
destroyed the pluralism that emerged in Islam since the 14th century, ranging
to Sufi and Shiite Islam.
...


Thank you
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