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Rift widens across Arab world - -

By Anthony Shadid

Across Arab World, a Widening Rift

Sunni-Shiite Tension Called Region's 'Most Dangerous Problem'

Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, February 12, 2007

CAIRO Egypt is the Arab world's largest Sunni Muslim country, but as a writer once quipped, it has a Shiite heart and a Sunni mind. In its eclectic popular culture, Sunnis enjoy a sweet dish with raisins and nuts to mark Ashura, the most sacred Shiite Muslim holiday. Raucous festivals bring Cairenes into the street to celebrate the birthdays of Shiite saints, a practice disparaged by austere Sunnis. The city's Islamic quarter tangles like a vine around a shrine to Imam Hussein, Shiite Islam's most revered figure.

The syncretic blend makes the words of Mahmoud Ahmed, a book vendor sitting on the shrine's marble and granite promenade, even more striking.

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Sunnis and Shiites have long prayed together at Cairo's Shiite shrine to Imam Hussein. But growing sectarian friction has frayed that amity. (By Jahi Chikwendiu -- The Washington Post)


    
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