{"id":16270,"date":"2017-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/leaders-manipulate-islamic-division\/"},"modified":"2017-01-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T00:00:00","slug":"leaders-manipulate-islamic-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/leaders-manipulate-islamic-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders manipulate Islamic division"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The current animosity between Sunni and Shia Muslims is similar to recent divisions within Christianity, says a terror expert.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit like\u2026 tensions between Catholic and Protestant and Orthodox Christians,\u201d Prof Greg Barton tells FIVEAA. \u201cWe know that at times those tensions have resulted in awful bloodshed, but we also know &#8212; particularly in more recent times &#8212; that those problems have really dissipated.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/300657702&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is more about identity politics, and who\u2019s using those identities for what purpose, than it is about people literally hating each other,\u201d Prof Barton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat does happen, but it\u2019s not an inevitable situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in recent decades in the middle east it was very common in countries like Iraq or Syria or Pakistan for Sunni and Shia to not just live and work together, but intermarry and really not even think about those differences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then those differences are seized upon by political leaders and militants who want to exploit other grievances\u2026 as you saw, for example, in Northern Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/willsy-shares-unexplained-moment-after-her-husband-died\"><strong>WILLSY SHARES UNEXPLAINED MOMENT AFTER HER HUSBAND DIED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/robin-williams-comforted-this-heartbroken-woman-in-her-darkest-moment\"><strong>WOMAN\u2019S HEARTBREAKING ROBIN WILLIAMS STORY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current animosity between Sunni and Shia Muslims is similar to recent divisions within Christianity, says a terror expert. \u201cIt\u2019s a little bit like\u2026 tensions between Catholic and Protestant and Orthodox Christians,\u201d Prof Greg Barton tells FIVEAA. \u201cWe know that at times those tensions have resulted in awful bloodshed, but we also know &#8212; particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-16270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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