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Quixote1818

(28,918 posts) Sat Jun 14, 2014, 01:58 PM Jun 2014

Map of Middle East showing Sunni and Shia regions

Looking at this map you can see why it was so easy for ISIS to get all the way to the outskirts of Bagdad. Things get a lot tougher now for them.

You can blow the map up bigger here: http://www.internationalrelations.com/2012/01/25/the-sunni-shiite-divide/

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Map of Middle East showing Sunni and Shia regions (Original Post) Quixote1818 Jun 2014 OP

That's excellent! The_Commonist Jun 2014 #1

Super map with great info, thank you etherealtruth Jun 2014 #2

Very informative! Thank you! scarletwoman Jun 2014 #3

You need to overlay it with ethnicities. Igel Jun 2014 #4

This needs a kick. scarletwoman Jun 2014 #5

BOO, Obama! Unca Adverse Jun 2014 #6

Interesting Egnever Jun 2014 #7

The_Commonist

(2,518 posts)

1. That's excellent!

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sat Jun 14, 2014, 04:43 PM

Jun 2014

I've seen other maps like that, but nothing quite so detailed.
Thanks!

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)

2. Super map with great info, thank you

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sat Jun 14, 2014, 04:57 PM

Jun 2014

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)

3. Very informative! Thank you!

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sat Jun 14, 2014, 05:11 PM

Jun 2014

Igel

(35,274 posts)

4. You need to overlay it with ethnicities.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sat Jun 14, 2014, 08:20 PM

Jun 2014

The Kurds aren't going to go for the Salafis. (Part of it is that they're Kurds versus Arabs; part of it is that Sufistic tendencies are left out--not all Sunnis are Salafists and Salafism cuts across fiqhs.)

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)

5. This needs a kick.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sun Jun 15, 2014, 11:53 AM

Jun 2014

This is a great map, and while we have our attention on that region it's very helpful to see the sectarian divides all laid out.

Unca Adverse

(29 posts)

6. BOO, Obama!

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 12:31 AM

Jun 2014

Only 15% of the world's Muslim population is Shiite!
By backing the Sunni bashing minority junta of al-Maliki of Iraq, he is siding with losers.
Obama's major allies will be the murderous dictator Bashar al-Assad of Syria
and the 'Supreme Leader' Ali Khamenei of Iran.
Wake up Obama . . . Stay Out of Iraq!

Egnever

(21,506 posts)

7. Interesting

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 01:20 AM

Jun 2014

It also explains Irans willingness to get involved.

Thanks!

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