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Originally Posted by Robbie
I thought that ISIS were Sunni and not as religious as the majority of Iraq?
Isn't that Hussein's people (Sunni)? I always thought they were the ones who wore military outfits and acted more modern as opposed to the Shiite majority who are bowing down to Mecca all day long and wearing robes.
Why the heck would a group of Sunni's suddenly turn into religious nuts? Or is this some kind of propaganda from the U.S. to garner public support to send troops in to prop up our puppet govt.?
The whole ISIS thing kinda surprised me. I watch the news every day. I had never even HEARD of this group until they had pretty much taken over Iraq.
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Sunni's are usually the more extremist ones. Wahhabism is an extreme Sunni "sect" with roots in Saudi Arabia(and the House of Saud).
Off the top of my head, I can't even think of many Shia who would be considered extreme or, rather, were / are apart of a "mainstream" terrorist network.
Saddam was secular in practice - He was apart of the, and leader of the, Ba'ath party in Iraq. A very secular, nationalist party focused on modernization. He wasn't really religious at all, in fact.
Edit: Wahhabism is where people like Osama Bin Laden, etc., come from.