"The only Arab country with a significant minority of Shiites is Iran's next door neighbor, Iraq. So what about Lebanon, GUEST, Cunningham, where most of the Muslim population are Shiites? (All right, as the majority group, that means they aren't "a significant minority" of Muslims, but of course there are also Christians , so the Shiites are a minority of Lebanese. A pretty significant one too.

I wish people would check up things like that before posting dogmatic statements of alleged facts which just aren't so. It's pretty easy to do that, thanks to our Internet toys. (The same for freda underhill's "In Afghanistan, Shias are the majority, in Iraq, they are the minority." No. It's precisely the other way round. But I suspect that might have been a typing error.)

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