A response to Time magazine's "Why they hate each other"

Richard Marsden ,The Business of Emotions
March 12, 2007

"Sunnis vs. Shi'ites, Why they Hate each other. What's really driving the civil war that's tearing the Middle East apart." So proclaims the cover of the March 5th, 2007, issue of Time magazine, U.S and Pacific editions (...) During the Presidency of Saddam Hussein, integration of Sunnis and Shi'ites continued. Most of his government were Shi'ia. As I recall, the majority of those "most wanted" depicted on playing cards by the U.S. Department of Defense, are Shi-ites, not Sunnis. They married each other and lived together as Muslims and Iraqis. A little over a year ago they were fighting together side-by-side in the resistance to the occupation. So well might we ask, Why all the sectarian killing now?...

continua / continued