Shia Islam is a minority Cult of Islam. The primary religion of Islam is Sunni Islam like you have in most Arab countries and especially in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has vowed to kill every Shia Muslim on earth over the years because they believe Shia Islam is Heresy against Islam.
So, the problem with bombing Iran would likely be the mass genocide of Shia Muslims throughout the middle East.
I think the knowledge of this is why Europe and NATO have advised Trump not to bomb Iran's government out of existence because you literally would have millions of Shia Refugees coming to Europe for refuge so they didn't die in the middle East.
Something to think about!
Sunnis tend to think of themselves as sort of like the Catholics in Christianity and they see Shia as like Protestantism. However, they are about 500 years ago in evolution as a religion and sort of like how Catholics and Protestants fought and died fighting each other from about 1500 to the 1800s before this stopped. Even my own family came from Switzerland because they were protestants and settled in Philadelphia around 1725 because this is where many protestants from Europe settled around then. So, my ancestors came from Switzerland to escape persecution so they could have freedom of religion here in the U.S.
And many Sunni as well as Shia Muslims come to Europe and the U.S. to escape the persecution of their families in the middle East still today because in some ways they are still in the middle east a lot like the Catholics and Protestants were from 1500s to mid 1800s in Europe in many ways regarding fighting over which version of Islam is the best and which one will be allowed to survive and not wiped out in a war lasting hundreds of years there in the Middle East. In other words this war has already been going on a long long time.
Also, ISIS is a Sunni Extremist Group that wants to kill all Shia Muslims and all Christians and anyone else in the middle east who isn't Sunni Muslim.
And when they killed 2 American soldiers and their interpreter helper recently many ISIS locations in the middle East were blown up by Trump.
I asked Google AI how long this conflict has been going on and it said: "1400 years".
begin quote when I asked the question: "How long has the war between the Shias and the Sunnis been going on?
- Succession Crisis: The fundamental split occurred in the 7th century over who should lead the Muslim community after the Prophet Muhammad's death in 632 AD, with Sunnis supporting Abu Bakr and Shias backing Ali.
- Early Violence: Early conflicts included battles between Ali and his rivals, and the martyrdom of Ali's son, Hussein, at Karbala in 680 AD.
- Long Periods of Peace: For much of Islamic history, Sunnis and Shias lived in relative peace, with sectarian violence not being the norm, notes DebateUS.
- Post-2003 Iraq War: The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, overthrowing Saddam Hussein, empowered the Shia majority and unleashed sectarian violence, bringing the divide to the forefront.
- Regional Proxy Wars: The rivalry between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran fuels conflicts in Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere, using sectarian identity for political leverage.
- Rise of Extremists: Groups like ISIS exploited and intensified these divisions, targeting Shia communities, notes Wikipedia.
It's more accurate to see this as an ancient schism with recurring episodes of violence, rather than a continuous 1,400-year war, with modern conflicts being complex intersections of religion, politics, and power struggles, say Al Jazeera and History.com.
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