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    The Geopolitics of the Civil War of Shia Islam
    The Geopolitics of the Civil War of Shia Islam
    The Geopolitics of the Civil War of Shia Islam
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    The Geopolitics of the Civil War of Shia Islam

    By Iakovos Alhadeff

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    Unlike the Sunni Muslim world, which has been very divided during the energy war that was given the code name “Arab Spring”, the Shia Muslims have been relatively united.

    But recently there are signs of cracks in the Shia camp too. Many Shia Muslims of Iraq are calling for a normalization with the Sunni world, and a breaking of ties with Iran, which is the main Shia power of the Muslim world.

    This essay examines the main factors that cause the cracks in the Shia camp.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIakovos Alhadeff
    Release dateMay 19, 2016
    ISBN9781311046369
    The Geopolitics of the Civil War of Shia Islam
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    Iakovos Alhadeff

    I have studied economics to postgraduate level. I never worked as an economist though. I worked in the field of charter accountancyand I completed the relevant professional exams (the Greek equivalent of the English A.C.A.). My essays are written for the general reader with no economic or accounting knowledge, and the emphasis is on intuition. All my documents are extremely pro market and quite anti-socialist in nature. I admire economists from the Chicago and the Austrian School i.e. Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard. I am Greek and English is not my first language, so I hope you will excuse potential errors in my syntax.

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      The Geopolitics of the Civil War of Shia Islam - Iakovos Alhadeff

      The Geopolitics of the

      Civil War of Shia Islam

      Iakovos Alhadeff

      Copyright © 2016 by Iakovos Alhadeff.

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      Table of Contents

      The US Invasion of Iraq

      The Shia-Sunni Pipelines

      The Civil War of Shia Islam

      Articles

      The US Invasion of Iraq

      With the attack on Iraq in 2003, the United States overturned the Sunni Arab minority of Sadddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein was a socialist dictator who was governing Iraq by oppressing the Arab Shia (Shiite) majority, and also by oppressing the Kurds of Iraq. When the Americans overturned Saddam Hussein, the Shia Arab majority of Iraq became the dominant political force, and the ex-people of Saddam Hussein became the leaders of ISIS in Iraq, and many of them also became dominant figures of ISIS in Syria.

      Remember that during the previous decades the Alawite minority of Syria was running Syria, and therefore the Sunni Arabs of Syria were not the ones to hold the top positions in the Syrian public sector and in the Syrian army. On the contrary, the Sunnis of Iraq were running Iraq, and they were holding the top positions of the public sector and the Iraqi army, and they were more qualified to hold top positions in ISIS. For more details about what happened in Iraq see The Truth about the US Invasion of Iraq in 2003, and Saddamm Hussein : The Father of ISIS in Iraq.

      1) The Truth about the US Invasion of Iraq in 2003.

      https://iakal.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/the-truth-about-the-us-invasion-of-iraq-in-2003/

      2) Saddamm Hussein : The Father of ISIS in Iraq

      https://iakal.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/saddam-hussein-the-father-of-isis-in-iraq/

      To understand the war for the oil and natural gas of Syria and Iraq it is imperative to have a basic understanding of the region’s geography, and also a basic knowledge of the main ethnic and religious divisions of these two countries. Therefore, before addressing the issue of the civil war of the Shia Muslims of Iraq, I will use some standard maps that depict the geography and ethnic divisions of Iraq and Syria.

      The first map shows the main Iraqi divisions i.e. the Shia Arabs (green) of Iraq, the Sunni Arabs (yellow) of Iraq, and the Kurds (blue) of Iraq. The Kurds are normally Sunnis, but they act on their Kurdish identity, and not on their religious identity. The white-yellow part of the map shows the Iraqi desert, with few Sunni elements. As you can see the Sunni elements are positioned along the rivers Tiger

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