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Originally Posted by ET2SN
Try Google-ing "Sunni" and "Shia".  |
Also, there are predominantly three big ethnicities involved in Islam in the Middle (and not so middle anymore) East: Persians, Turks, and Arabs. And they all do not like each other, they all have hacked away at each other at various times in history. And regarding such events people in these places have very long memories. One could say that the past seems to be more important for many of them than the present. Or that the past is their present.
They really got stuck long time ago, and are stuck until today. Endless references to the past are omnipresent.