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To: TideGlider who wrote (617958)	9/4/2004 1:12:24 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Saddam is a Sunni, but a very secular Muslim. He uses Islam as a shield, but through his actions shows very little regard or respect for it. Wahabbi's are akin to our fundamentalist Christians. Shiites in Iran are also fundamentalists, although each group thinks the others are heretics, and have fought each other in the past. Nonetheless, they have a kinship in their belief that religion is should rule everyday life. Both groups view Saddam as a westernized non-practising Muslim who rejects their vision of an Islamic state and Islamic world. As such, the radicals in both group are linked by a hatred of Saddam's secularism (similar to how Hizbullah has cooperated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in fighting Israel). They have temporarily put aside their dislike for each other to fight the 'greater enemy of Islam': Saddam's westernized secular society. So, basically, the fundamentalists in Sunni and Shia have temporarily cooperated to fight the 'non-believers' in Israel and Iraq.