At 04:35 AM 9/12/01 -0500, Terry Bassett wrote:
> The key thing here is that the Ba'th religion is the State
> religion in
>Iraq. It seems that it is a religion of the state such as the American
>Constitution warns against. I spent two years in Turkey. When I would ask
>a Sunni what the difference between them and a Shi'ite was, the response
>was always a rapid denouncement in a flurry of vehement Turkish that I had
>no chance of following with my limited Turkish skills. I can tell you
>that they have a very strong heartfelt dislike for Shia.
>
>Terry Bassett
Several hundred years as a Sunni theocracy and a world power, almost a
hundred years a secular state wanting to be part of the European
community? And Shi'ites the thorn in their side both ways. Why EVER would
a Turk not like Shi'ites?
Stuart Biggerstaff
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