ISIS militants press forward, threaten to seize more Iraqi cities as soldiers bolt

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Re: ISIS militants press forward, threaten to seize more Iraqi cities as soldiers bol

@Surdar_Asif

You have deviated from the point that I make in response to the other poster and my point is quite loud, clear, and verifiable. No sane group in this day and age would go around in rampage killing innocents from the ‘other’ group indiscriminately. The few insane ones that do are quite easy to count and Shias certainly do not feature in that list.

Besides the point but you mentioned assassins that led inter Ismaili fight and I highly recommend an in depth research by an author named Bernard Lewis on the subject. In his book he explains how stories like Paradise of Assasins is work of imagination and a fiction but many have read it or heard about it and shaped their view of assassins. My guess is that you have read that novel?

And Shiism goes a long way back than Safavis in Iran unless ones decides to visist a lashkar e Jhangvi website. Cities of Qom and Ray were prominent centers of Shia learning centuries before the Safavis (8th Shia Imam, Ali al Reza is buried there was announced successor of Abbasi caliph Mamoom). It is true though that under Safavis it was the first time that a Shia estate was established and masses of Sunnis, of Sufi leaning, turned Shia.

No you actually said and made it sound like shiites are the victim and like some budhist monks (an oxymore with recent events) don’t fight back or go on rampage themselves.

I don’t know where lashkar jhangvi came in when I mentioned that iran was a sunni country before safavids. At least you admitted that and I won’t take this topic further in this thread.