Sure, just as Khruschev was not the same as Mao or Castro today is not the same as Hu Jintao. Yet they all fell under the basic Communist ideology. Of course there are always going to be local differences among an ideology. Are social democrats in Britain the same as their counterparts in Sweden or Pakistan?
Just like Moscow hated Beijing and vice versa. Both considered themselves the "true" incarnation of Communism and sought to be the leaders of international Communism.
As to them viewing Shia a bigger enemy than Westerners, perhaps in theory but not in practice. Do you see them blowing up bazaars in Shiraz or flying planes into Tehran?
Hamas is an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. It received plenty of funding from Saudi Arabia too until 9/11. Hezbollah is a Shia baby of Iran's Khomenists but Hamas is not. The Hamas Salafist alliance with Iranian Khomenists is a marriage of convenience. Is this surprising? Hamas is also allied with Baathist secularists in Syria and the Salafists themselves allied with America when they needed it to fight a another "kafir" in the 80's. International relations makes for some strange alliances.
I disagree as I see a marked difference between the two ideologies. Doctrinally for Shias, going on an offensive against anybody is a big NONO.....whereas for Wahabhism inspired movements, its like an obligation to go and fight the kuffar......offensive Jihad was the base of the movement of Abdul Wahab.....
well, they hate Shias both in theory and practice.......its just that their "Jihad" against the shias is of different nature......from their famous attacks in 1801 on Najaf and Karbala in the early days of Wahabhis, most recently they have mostly used suicide bombings against the Shia mosques and neighborhoods......if you look at the numbers then u will see tht wahabhis hve killed far more Shias than the Westerners......infact it can be argued tht the biggest threat that the Wahabhis sense comes from non other than the politically active Shiism.......
Hamas actually was a baby of none other than Israel.....Israel helped establish Hamas to counter Arafat's Fatah movement......Hamas grew strong under Sheikh Ismael and ended up showing their back to Israel and has since changed many camps and most recently after getting tired of the games played by the hypocrite Saudi monarchs, they have in past few yrs of so shifted themselves away from Sauds and closer to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iran....rightly so because, in my view, anything that comes close to the destructive ideology called Wahabhism will end up suffering destruction itself......hum tou dobein gay sanam tum ko bhi lay dobein gay....