Sunni and Shi'a have been fighting each other for 1300 years.
That's about as grotesque an exaggeration as claiming that "Romanists and Protestants have been fighting each other for 450 years."
On the contrary, pilgrimages to Mecca by believers of both persuasions have been business as usual from time out of mind.
You want to sneak the impression into peoples' minds that the Iraqis are savages bent on fighting and conquest while, in point of fact, they have not started a war in the last 200 years, and the Middle East has long been the one place on earth where people differing in religion have lived in peace with each other for over 1,000 years (until the British and, later, Americans started engineering religious conflicts in divide-and-conquer exercises). To this day the Jews in Iraq have consistently rejected incentives to leave their homes there for Israel.
Oh -- and while we're at it :
"Ancient" statues filmed being destroyed by depraved Islamic State militants in a Mosul museum last month were nothing more than worthless fakes, the director of an Iraqi museum has claimed.
Baghdad museum director Fawzye al-Mahdi has ridiculed ISIS' propaganda exercise, claiming the genuine priceless Assyrian and Akkadian statues and sculptures are still safely in his possession in the Iraqi capital, adding that those in Mosul were plaster cast replicas
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Quotations relevant to the above :
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Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
-- Richard Salent, Former President CBS News.
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News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising".
former NBC news President Rubin Frank
