The Volokh Conspiracy – Can You Tell a Sunni from a Shiite?::
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but do policy makers and administrators really need to know the origin of the split in Islam?Love the spin here. That’s not what Stein asked. A functioning knowledge of how the Sunni/Shiite split works in today’s politics was enough to win the lollipop.
The FBI official didn’t even know that Iran and Hezbollah were Shiite.
For that matter, I’m nothing but a health-care attorney, with two kids, who glances over the paper and the blogs more days of the week than not … and somehow, over the past 5 years, I’ve managed to pick up a rough notion of the origins of the Sunni/Shiite split, let alone the lineup in today’s Middle East. And it ain’t even my job to know it.
At some point, defending the pathetic becomes pathetic itself.
::Tullycast:: 