Archive for 'Sunni-Shia tension'
Summary of Salafist web sites - October-November
October and November, 2008
Salafist websites persist in their acute verbal offensive against Hezbollah, Iran and the Shi’i generally - but now with greater ferocity:
Salafist websites have been quick to take advantage of rising sectarian tensions permeating into the sphere of moderate discourse - in the wake of recent remarks by Qaradawi - to expand the […]
Posted: November 20th, 2008 under CF REPORTS, Sunni-Shia tension.
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Sectarian tension: from extremists to moderates
By Ayman Mohamad, Conflicts Forum, October 15, 2008
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a key Sunni thinker and religious commentator, has accused Iran of being behind a new wave of Shi’i ‘expansion’ that threatens the existence of Sunni Islam in Egypt and other Muslim countries1. His comments aroused wide controversy for their similarity to those posted on extreme […]
Posted: October 18th, 2008 under CF REPORTS, Sunni-Shia tension.
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