Listen 0:00 / 0:00 − 1.0x + Default Ready Shia Islam, like many religious sects, continues to be polarised by political opinion. This has in history led to further sub-divisions of Shia Islam. Notwithstanding, there is still an insistence to present Shia Islam as a bloc. This insistence has consequently invited a blanket of disdain for Shia Islam in general particularly in the Gulf. Saudi Arabia has been the main instigator in this regard. It has also in some instances managed to exploit the rifts between Shias for its own political ambitions. It has, for an example, extended invitations to Muqtada Al-Sadr, whose “electoral bloc came first in the May 2018 elections”. He has been very vocal on his views … Continue reading Iraqi uprisings expose cracks in Iran’s expansionist project in the Gulf