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Article: The Sunni-Shi'ite Propaganda War.

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July 28, 2008
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King 'Abdullah ibn 'Abdul-'Aziz of Saudi Arabia, which is earning over $1 bn per day, had a successful inter-faith conference in Madrid on July 16-18 which, apart from having over-shadowed the struggle of Sudan's "Islamic dictatorship" against the International Criminal Court (ICC)'s arrest warrant for Bashir, marked yet another coup in the cold war between the Sunnis and Shi'ites of the Muslim world (see news4-SudanBashirFacesICCtrialJuly21-08).

In June 2008, Darul 'Uloom Deoband in northern India issued a fatwa declaring terrorism and unjust violence as un-Islamic. King 'Abdullah's Madrid gathering had a similar purpose - demonstrating that the centre of ...

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