Ain't it funny, the difference a decade makes? Ten years ago, the
Shiites were considered the extremists -- because of the Ayatollah
and Lebanon -- and the Sunnis were considered the reasonable
Muslims. Now, the perception has flip-flopped -- Osama and obnoxious
Saudi behavior has made the Sunnis seem extreme, while the Iranians
have cooled down the extent that they might well be the closest thing
to a
Don't know much about either branch of Islam, other than the
foregoing.
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)