You are talking about centuries ago. I'm talking about today and back then Shia were pretty much about of every expansion and war. That's how they got here.
Only they didn't take part in the Ottoman Empire having resisted. Ottoman failed to occupy Iran/Persia.
No it was not centuries ago. What are you talking about?
For Afghanistan, it was only a 27 years ago that the Sunni Afghans drove the Soviets out.
By 1988, the Soviets decided to extricate itself from the situation. Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev saw the Afghan intervention as an increasing drain on the Soviet economy, and the Russian people were tired of a war that many Westerners referred to as “Russia’s Vietnam.”
Source:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hist ... fghanistan
The next invasion against Afghanistan was in 2001.
Iraq was invaded in 1991 & 2003.
In both invasions against these 2 fellow Muslim nations, the Rafida was part of the invasion and provided troops and militia.
The Egyptian victory against Israel was in 1973.
Bottom line, it was not centuries ago; it is recent.
With respect to the Ottomans against Shia, it was the Selim the Grim (ca. 1470-1520) who launched the offensive against Persians. At that time, Iran was overwhelmingly Sunni. It was the heavy taxation that Ottomans levied against Muslims under their rule and the lack of oversight on how they spend and distribute resources that caused the Savafids to declare Iran a Shia country.
Keep in mind this Selim the Grim guy attacked the Sunni Mamlukes, used artillery - which was new at the time - against them, and captured Egypt. He did not stop there but proceeded to capturing Mecca and Medina, and declared himself the Caliph. Before him, the title Caliph was only left for Ahlul Beit (the decedents of Ali Binu Abi Talib (ra) and Faduma (ra)). This guy falsely claimed the crown.
He also occupied Palestine and Syria and issued a decree: Jews can settle in the Holy Land. Many Jewish leaders of today regard that day as the beginning of the return of the Jews to the Holy Land. He did it because nearly all of his expeditions were financed by Jewish millionaires as some of his advisers were Jewish as well.
This is the guy after all who killed his brothers and cousins, and seize power from his father by force. He was a dictator and did not represent Sunni Islam. His actions and those of Ottoman rulers that followed him are clearly regarded by some Muslim scholars as outside of Islam and the creation of the current sectarianism.
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