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Originally Posted by Mutt
Because Muslims are nuts, there's the big divide between Shiites and Sunnis, then there are sects of each of those.
Sunnis aren't supporting ISIS caliphate because they think they are Karjites in Sunni clothing and they don't want to live under the rule of ISIS who are as extreme a group of global jihadists as we've seen.
I'm no expert, I just read like the rest of people. 99% of the talking heads on TV and the Internet just regurgitate/spin what they read and hear. You need to spend time amongst all these people to really understand what's going on, the President has access to the CIA reports and all kinds of academics/analysts who have real knowledge.
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I see. One of the things that struck me as weird in following this all, some reports of the violence in Iraq is described as perpetrated by Sunnis militants/etc, it makes it seem like they are separate from ISIS. The one story of note is the take over of the largest refinery in the region a few weeks back, that was a Sunnis extremist/militant seize, or at least it was reported as such.