Courses Quote by Patrick Cockburn

Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and…

— Patrick Cockburn

Muqtada belongs to the most famous religious family in Iraq, which is the al-Sadr family. He's really the third in line. [Muqtada's father] drew…

— Patrick Cockburn

Despite the fact that there's billions of dollars sitting in the Iraqi government reserves, somehow they are incapable of getting it out to the…

— Patrick Cockburn

I am Shia Muslim.

— The Iron Sheik

Shia phobia or Sunni phobia...we never hear about this. They murder each other!

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of…

— Gertrude Bell

The reason that ISIL was so successful, yes, it had to do with their capabilities and prowess on the battlefield, but they were dealing…

— James Clapper

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

ISIL is dangerous. They're a threat. They're a brutal, horrible force that needs to be dealt with.

— Lois Frankel

“Following the ascendancy of the conservative Sunni Caliph al-Mutawakkil, whom Syed Ameer Ali describes as a 'cruel drunken sot in league with the qazis…

— Pervez Hoodbhoy

In my opinion Elon Musk is one of the most dangerous men on the planet.

— Humza Yousaf

I see no reason why the Shias should be debarred from having their voice in the elected bodies and governmental institutions in any matter…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah