And that dates all the way back to Mohammed, when his nephew versus his three Counselors at Mohammed's death and the nephew, it's the strain of the Shia. And the Sunni strain came from his advisors, his close confidants. And you go look at Syria today, it is one of the few countries where the Shia are in control, where the majority is the Sunni. In fact, it's a very small sect of Shia called the Alawites. So you have an underlying religious war. That's what was happening in Iraq, where it was the Sunni, on the other hand, ruling the country. (1:10:56–1:11:04)
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Asserts that in Syria, the Shia minority controls the Sunni majority.
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