THIS IS AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE THAT ALL MUSLIM SECTS MUST READ AND CONTEMPLATE https://middleeastmonitor/articles/middle-east/9707-sectarian-and-religious-conflicts-in-the-middle-east-a-historical-and-contemporary-examination Bernard Lewis celebrates this year his ninety-eighth birthday. Perhaps he can now depart our world, believing that some of his wishes have been fulfilled in redrawing the map of the Arab and Islamic region along ethno-sectarian lines. This well-known orientalist, who is a staunch supporter of Zionism and Israel, wrote his doctorate on the Assassins, a splinter sect of Ismailism, a branch of Shia Islam. Lewis believed that the fragmentation of the Arab-Islamic region along sectarian and ethnic lines was the natural course of action in response to historical, geographical, and cultural dynamics. He also saw this as a great service for the Zionist project and a guarantee for the survival of Israel as a Jewish state, in a region divided into similar ethno-sectarian entities. Lewis had an impact on the neo-conservative school and George W. Bush, who ordered the invasion of Iraq seeking to rearrange it on ethnic and sectarian bases.
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