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Originally Posted by trevesty
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.
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Ah okay. I was really only familiar with Sunni's because of Hussein and all his people. And they all seemed very "Western" and "modern" as compared to the Shia people I saw in news footage.
I guess every faction has it's "extremist" element.
I'm also thinking that the actual people of Iraq are with them out of a nationalistic sense of pride...they want their country back from the U.S. installed leader.
But if this story is true...I feel bad for the women there. It's gonna be a nightmare for them.