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Thread #94033   Message #2065484
Posted By: Teribus
01-Jun-07 - 12:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: Realizations about Iraq
Subject: RE: BS: Realizations about Iraq
Who reported, or relayed, that crap to you Ron, that you swallow it up and regurgitate it so willingly?

Shia and Sunni "labels" refer to religion Ron.

The ethnic composition includes:

Arab, 70–74%; Kurdish, 22-24%; Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5%.

The religious composition includes:

Muslim, 97%; Christian or other, 3%. Two estimates of the Muslim proportions of the population are:

Shi'a as much as 60%, Sunni about 40% (source: Britannica, Religion section of Iraq article).

Shi'a 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-37% (source: CIA World Fact Book).

The Shi'a are mostly Arabs some Turkmen and Faili Kurds almost all are Twelver school.

Sunnis are composed of Arabs, Turkmen who are Hanafi school and Kurds who are Shafi school.

Over and over I have told you that the Arab Sunni's have to abandon their support of the insurgency and for Al-Qaeda-in-Iraq in order to have their "concerns" addressed - That Ron they are now doing.

As for my experience of life Ron, well you haven't really got a clue have you? But then knowing absolutely nothing about a subject has never stopped you from making assinine remarks related to it before, has it?