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Political Factoid
More than 80% of the world's
1.6 billion Muslims are
Sunni Muslims,
... but 80% of the Muslims
in the oil-rich Persian Gulf
region are Shiite Muslims.*
Not totally unlike the difference between the
majority of Americans and the majority of
wealthy Americans.
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In order to protect American company oil interests,
the United States government has historically sided
with the Shiite Muslims in Iraq and elsewhere.
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ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) is led by
radical Sunni Muslims.
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