Middle East: Islam: Pakistan, Iran, and Yemeni terror cell aflame simultaneously

While a lone scion of Nigeria's leading banker, a Muslim, travelled from Lagos to Schipol (Amsterdam's international airport), to Detroit (where the traveller tried to explode a bomb); in Pakistan, annual Shi'ite celebrants who consitute 20% of the population) came under attack of the majority Sunni Muslims; and in Iran, where Shi'a are by far the majority, the Shi'a theocrats were protested by the growing movement for more democracy, also largely Shi'ites.

I suspect there's a moral to this unfolding of events: the Al Quaeda in the Arabian Penninsula movement which apprently prepared the Nigerian 23-yr-old in Yemen for his woud-be heroics, wanted to affirm a different direction to co-religionists in Pakistan and Iran. In so many words, they were saying We shoud be f+ting the West, especially America, not one another at this moment. In the past certain Al Quaeda leaders (especially in Iraq) have been fiercely authorian Sunnis who wanted to force Shi's to leave their historic commuity and convert to Sunnism (Wahabbi sect, or Salafis), or die!

I commiserate with all Muslims who want to lead a peaceful life and contribute to the well-being of fellow humans, without religious coercion or terrorism.

-- Politicarp