(Ynet News) Shlomo Avineri - There is a war - not between Islam and the West, but rather inside the Islamic world. America is not bin Laden's principal enemy. Rather, it is the Saudi dynasty - an oppressive Islamic regime based on a fundamentalism even more extreme than that found in Iran (for example, with regard to elections, women's rights, and non-Muslim's rights in society). In Iraq, Sunni terror is directed mainly at the Shiite majority and the Kurdish minority. Sunni terrorists recently blew up one of the holiest Shiite mosques in the world. Shiites responded by attacking and burning dozens of Sunni mosques. The murder is directed first and foremost at other Muslims. Of course, the West and Israel are targets, but this is mainly an intra-Islamic struggle. Prof. Avineri is a former director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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