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The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025: The US and the Middle East

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In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By Juan Cole for Informed Comment Back in 2004, in an interview with one of our foremost journalists of the Middle East, Robin Wright, Jordan’s King Abdullah II complained as a Sunni Muslim monarch that he now saw a “Shiite Cre…

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The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025: The US and the Middle East

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Back in 2004, in an interview with one of our foremost journalists of the Middle East, Robin Wright, Jordan’s King Abdullah II complained as a Sunni Muslim monarch that he now saw a “Shiite Crescent” in the Middle East. The Bush administration’s overthrow of the Baath government of Saddam Hussein, which was secular but dominated by Sunni Arabs, was allowing the Iraqi Shiite majority to mobilize. King Abdullah also …

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