Conflict Quote by Jack Keane

Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading…

— Dervla Murphy

You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting.

— John Kasich

Unfortunately, the source of all this conflict between the Sunnis and Shia is some major powers that do not want religious unity amongst Muslims.

— Yousef Saanei

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology…

— William Kristol

Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

— Max Fisher

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for…

— Peter DeFazio

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some…

— Noah Feldman

There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers.…

— John Kasich

Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.

— Trent Lott

[A conflict of Sunni vs. Shia] is in the mind of the Saudis, and this is in the minds of the Wahabists. [The Iranians]…

— Bashar al-Assad

It is unfortunate that there is not a government in Iraq that has been able to unify the Shiites and the Sunnis sufficiently. They…

— Richard Lugar

The civil war across the Middle East between the Shia and the Sunni empowers groups like ISIS and al Qaeda who claim to be…

— Peter Bergen