Shia Islam

No, it's well, they bombed the east to west pipeline.

They bombed the eastern extremity, which is in the Shiite provinces in the east of Saudi Arabia.

They bombed Yambu.

They bombed oil refineries in Yambu, which is the terminal of the east-west.

But look, in the meantime, we have the likes of Sir Richard Dearlove here talking, he's former head of MI6, of course, talking on Global News Today and Riyadh a few days ago.

He called the rivalry between, sorry, the partnership issue between Iran, the Sunni and Shia, let's put it that way, the most profound issue in the long term in the region.

He said he'd always believed it would come to a head and that quotes were getting pretty close to that point.

He predicted in this interview that Saudi Arabia would assert its position over time but warned that there was an awful lot of violence still to come before the conflict ends.

And he described Iran's Shia theocracy as the great disruptor of Middle East peace.

He accused the Revolutionary Guard of spreading violence wherever it can, including against a man.

And he said that with Houthi missiles and drones now hitting Saudi targets, he used that as the excuse to stoke any possible tensions by saying Saudi Arabia must itself want to see the end of the Iranian regime.

And now he tries to stoke tensions even further in the Middle East.

Here you have...

The Shia who are from Yemen, they are fighting in Yemen.

This is their turf.

They have tried to overthrow the government in Yemen.

No, there are a series of things that made that happen.

There is the internecine warfare between the Shiites and the Sunnis.

There's the hatred.

If you look at the hatred that exists between the Sunnis or some of the Sunnis, the ISIS Sunnis in Iraq against the Shiites, there's a history.

whether it goes back to Saddam's torture of the Shiites and their retribution after they come in power or vice-versa and it's still going on now there's retribution from the Shiites against the Sunnis and it's non-stop and the torture the level of torture is horrific from both sides people being skewered like kebabs and skinned alive why so horrific? It's hard to put a finger on it, but what I can say is that torture and abuse and these sorts of violations breed the same thing.

And it takes a very, very brave man to come along and say that he's prepared to forgive for the stage next.

I don't think anybody's prepared to give, not the Americans, not the British, not the Iraqis, not the Saudis.

The story, the famous story of the Taliban, Mullah Omar and so forth, were approached as people who were students of Islamic knowledge to come and save these children as students of knowledge who were not part of the warlord system.

But they were not.

We didn't realize there are different sects, Sunnis and Shiites and Kurds, who never agreed, who always were at each other's throats.

And suddenly the CIA and the American military had not a clue of who this new enemy was.

So they started arresting all the men and boys around any explosion and putting them in a prison.

They had the funds to do it.

And meanwhile, the Iranians were doing the same thing with Shia Islam.

One side they were doing was Sunni Islam.

And so Islam lost its brakes in 1979 to this giant right turn.

It can not only, not only being attacked or can be attacked by Iran, it's being very effectively attacked by the Houthis, who suddenly are a new sort of piece on the Middle East chessboard, or a much more important piece.

They could be attacked from the north by the Shia militias in Iraq.

So, you know, that has all changed to the advantage of Iran.

But one shouldn't, I think, go too over the top by this because, you know, if there is another, they had 20,000 airstrikes last time around from the U.S. and Israel.

They started at the notion of Islamic, but continue expediency, and when you accept maslaha, maslaha in its essence is secular.

Everyone that rely on maslaha, both Sunni and Shiite, Muslim and non-Muslim, interest, public interest, is based on many things.

You cannot restrict yourself to something in the name of this religion or jurisprudence and so on.

This is much larger than religion.

But also, they are responsible, accountable, but free.

It means that the people can practice freely their religion, their denomination, their faith, all religions, not only Not only, for example, those who are in majority.

Any denomination, Sunni, Shiite, they should be free for their practicing.

Unfortunately, in these Islamic states that we have, when, for example, in Saudi Arabia, Shiite do not have freedom.

They were doing that.

You know that thing where the is it the Shiites or the Sunnis? They flog themselves and they were doing it in downtown Houston.

They get that from the Catholics.

And one of our listeners sent me the video, so I posted it.