Saturday, July 13, 2013

Economist's account of Sunni-Shi`te conflict

Following the cliches in Saudi-Hariri media, Economist want you to know that sectarian agitation and hatred was injected into the region only AFTER the intervention by Hizbullah in Qusayr, when it had started years earlier. Since at least 2003, Saudi media have been advocating along sectarian lines, and the only change is that Qatari media joined in this festival of hate two years ago.  Look at this account in the Economist:  "Hizbullah’s recent dispatch of fighters into Syria has provoked a torrent of Sunni abuse. Mosque sermons recalled distant historical episodes of supposed Shia perfidy. Yusuf Qaradawi, a popular television preacher who speaks for the Muslim Brotherhood, said he regretted his past efforts at reconciliation with Shias. He blasted Hizbullah as the party of Satan and called for jihad."  Saudi government has been publishing anti-Shi`ite tracts for decades and there is a writer in Pakistan (Ihsan Adh-Dhahir) who lives off the subsidies he receives from House of Saudi for publishing anti-Shi`ite books.