Of Sunnis and Shiites #
May 1st, 2008 | In Worth Considering
The CS Monitor reports on a debate in Qatar that made this oft ignored point:
“The media listens to people on [the far] sides of the equation,” he says.
The repeated airing of such extremist opinions has helped mold Western attitudes about Islam that, Hellyer argues, are a distortion of the reality.
It is a sentiment shared by Qazwini, who argues that there is no conflict between Sunnis and Shiites, only between extremist Sunnis and Shiites “who represent 1 percent of Muslims at best.”