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Is America Partly Responsible For The Suppression Of Arab Shias?

September 21, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui

Kevin Sullivan:

When America’s top diplomat calls Iran an emerging Junta, and the West repeatedly calls Tehran a regional threat, it gives the region’s other not-democracies — you know, the friendly ones — carte blanche to suppress and discriminate against their Shia minorities and, in the case of Bahrain, majorities.

When things become about Sunni-Vs-Shia , all of logic, persuasion, argumentation and debate become obsolete. It becomes a power game in which factions want to control each other.