Iranian Sunnis attack Shiia theocracy
In predominantly Shiia Iran, a rebel sect of Sunnis have begun violent attacks. In February, the Iranian Sunni terrorist group known as Jundollah (or “God’s Soldiers”) took credit for a bomb put on a military bus that killed 18 citizens in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan, and now has released a video of their most recent kidnapping: four members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
Iran’s theocratic government is Shiia, but Jundollah is Sunni - the same sect that al-Qaida claims to represent. This has led some to speculate that the two are linked, but so little is known about Jundollah that it is impossible to tell for sure. Sunnis make up the minority population in Iraq and Iran, but the majority of every other Muslim nation.
The part that interests me the most is the American media’s complete refusal to call Jundollah a terrorist group, preferring to call them “rebels”. My friends, the founding fathers were rebels. The Ramones were rebels. These are terrorists. Is it just impossible for these jingoistic reporters to imagine someone terrorizing Muslims? Is their ethnocentrism that deep?
Why don’t US forces help Iran out and fight this front of the War on Terror? Oh, right, because we’re only fighting people who terrorize us.
Iran, Middle East, United States, Islam, al-Qaida, Jundollah
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