Persecution of the Shia in Saudi Arabia

Like the crude oil that lies in vast pools beneath the Persian Gulf, tensions between the region's Sunni and Shia Muslims tend to stay below ground. But when pressures build and a ready channel is cleared, they can bubble to the surface with alarming force.

Thirty years ago the Islamic revolution in Shia-majority Iran inspired a wave of unrest among fellow Shias of the opposite shore. Things then calmed down. Nervous Arab rulers, all of them Sunnis, soothed their Shia subjects with a few rights and promises of more, while Iran largely gave up trying to export its revolutionary fervour.

But with Iran lately sounding more aggressive under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, small incidents are again triggering bigger eruptions. On February 20th, for instance, a group of female pilgrims visiting the most revered Shia site in Saudi Arabia, a cemetery in Islam's second-holiest city, Medina, where hundreds of the Prophet Muhammad's descendants are said to have been buried, screamed when they spotted what they guessed was a religious policeman filming them from on top of a security wall.

Male relatives, outraged by this invasion of modesty, demanded the footage. Instead, the all-Sunni police force arrested five of them, sparking a riot by thousands of Shia pilgrims, more arrests and injuries. Repeated protests over several days then spread from Medina to Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province. That province contains many of the kingdom's Shia minority, numbering about 10% of Saudis, as well as most of its oil reserves.

http://www.economist.com/world/mideast-africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13185773

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[shahzadazulfiqar1]

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[shahzadazulfiqar1]

@MrSalfi8mobile Very nice, son of beast. 

[DirtyBlade602]

@dontdependonearth3

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[dontdependonearth3]

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[dontdependonearth3]

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[DirtyBlade602]

@llKeon

Tbh iam a muslim and all but id respect you and not respect the sunnis...

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[foenvy1]

shia,if the messanger of allah Mohammed (saaw) was here in our times,he would declare war on you,.

Enough of bidda,you make islam look bad

Wallahi,you people have done worse then christians

They left allah and worshiped jessus

And you (shia) well

you have left allah and worshiped Ali(RA)

[Onepretentiousdude]

@MrSalfi8mobile

You're fucking disgusting.

[kadafi150]

Shia are traitors to Ali ra and Hussein ra and the muslims, shia behave urself in Mecca and Medina...dont run on graves, let the imams (ra) rest in peace, we all know the scenes u all violated their graves, its on youtube

[mishrik]

kILLERS OF hUSEEIN & ALI WIN!!!wHO ARE THEY ?? tHE sunnis