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August 15, 2011

Post-Revolution, Sunni vs. Shia Split

Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post

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A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the Sino-Soviet conflict’s effect on the Cold War: the division of revolutionary Islamists into separate Sunni and Shi’ite camps.

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TAGGED: Syria, Iran, Egypt, Shia, Sunni

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