we have to remember that al qaeda began as a grand global ideology and then picked grand goals to attack the america, and the grand saudi family. and so there was a narrow goal to dispossess the sunnis in iraq and in iraq they felt by sunni and in damascus the allowite and so it was a sectarian thing, and then they established the caliphate, and graeme s article does a great thing to make you realize that and then the goals were grander, and now they were at tracking people, but at heart, there is a sunni revolt dwapst the shia rule. and again, it to your point that a lot of the people in the west don t pay attention to the sunni and the shia divide and don t understand the difference, but it is essential, because isis does not view people from the, you know, the, that are not part and they don t view shias
sectarian goal, which was to the cause in syria and iraq. in iraq they felt they were being ruled by a shiite dictatorship. so it began as this very local sectarian thing. then they established the caliphate. graham s article makes us realize that. then the goals become grander, and more now they re attracting people. at heart, there are sunni revolt against shia rule. it s so important. again, to your point, a lot of people in the west don t pay attention to the sunni/shia divide. but it is essential because isis does not view people from the, you know, that are not part of they don t view shias as they call them the rejectionists. the people that zarqawi, number