Hamas Legalizes Crucifixion

[ICantSpellDawg]

My understanding was that Hamas was the Palestinian extgension of the Muslim Brotherhood, which would make them Sunni, if I'm not completely mistaken. (Details on the MB/Hamas relationship.)

Iran is Shia, Hamas is Sunni. Do we need to go over the Sunni/Shia thing again, or are we all still convinced that Saddam and Osama Bin Laden are gay lovers who planned 9/11 together?

That is a pretty linear and unrealistic way of looking at Iran and Hamas. "Oh, they are seperate denominations of Islam, so there is no way that they could ally themselves against the Great Satan for a certain period of time."

The reality is that the majority of Palestinians are Sunni. And yet, Iranian leadership has made a core tennant of their foreign policy to slam Israel and come to the defense of the Palestinians? how is this possible - what about the Sunni/Shi'a divide?

Look at it as more of an Urban II/Alexios I connection. I'd say that 10's of thousands of dead Sunni palestinians under the "protective eye" of Shia Iran fits the character of Shia's "defending" Sunnis from Israel.

I beleive that Hamas' electoral victory changed the level of support from Iran.

Here is a story about Iranian reactions to Gaza

Here is a thoroughly biased and arguable Israeli account of the change.

Here is an Iranian account that many will likely say is the same support that the U.S. is giving Hamas (although our money might be contingent on not killing Israelis while Irans is contingent on a fixed number of corpses)

All I know is that I'd send money to Anglicans fighting atheists to the death in the UK. In any other in-house situation regarding Anglicans and Catholics, they can burn for their heresy I can only expect of others what I'd expect of myself.