The other day I proposed an alternative to ISIS: A New Islamic State that would give Muslims somewhere to go to support their religion without joining the fight against America.
I mentioned Islamic nations might anchor this organization. I didn't name them, but I had in mind countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Those guys are mostly on the opposite side of the Sunni/Shia split. You may recall the first tenet of the NIS was a rejection of such splits.
But human beings would often prefer to widen the split between them and others, given the right opportunity.
And now the Sunnis and Shiites have been handed an excellent opportunity for pulling away from one another, courtesy of Saudi Arabia (mostly Sunni) executing a Shiite cleric for advocating more rights for Shia followers in that country.
The Supreme Leader of Iran (a country overwhelmingly Shiite) promised divine retribution for this act of state murder.
Gosh, that would be easy to take—assuming the revenge came directly from Allah and nowhere else. Nothing would ever happen (though all sorts of disaggreeable events might be tagged as coming from Allah).
The real problem is all those believers who happen to know the Big Guy personally and take their marching orders from him. Those are the guys with the guns and suicide vests and the willingness to put them to use in crowded venues.
The widening of the split between Saudi Arabia and Iran also bodes ill for ending the civil war in Syria. And that's great news for ISIS.
Nice going, Allah.
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