So, soothie wahabis hate Ismailis, because they are "sorcerers".A_Gupta wrote:Are these causally linked events? Oppression of Ismailis in Najran, Houthi rebellion and attack on Najran, attack on Ismailis in Pakistan?
http://m.hrw.org/en/node/75197/section/7
http://www.yementimes.com/en/1875/news/ ... ajran”.htm
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32717321
Yemeni hoothis hate Ismailis also, because...well, that's what they do.
Ismailis and their living god Aga Khan are also financiers and patrons of the RAPE.
And pakis (which ones? The RAPE or non -RAPE? Does it matter?) are devout bitches of soothies.
Ismailis of Najran want to be the bitches of the soothies but they are not welcome.
Presumably, paki Ismailis are also not welcome to the blessed state of soothie bitchhood, given that some bitches of the soothies, in all likelihood, did the recent karachi massacre.
What does it all add up to? To answer that, maybe we should ask what's missing from the story.
Kafirs, I'm thinking. If not missing entirely, severely lacking in availability. Yazdis are too few. Yindoos are numerous but are too well-defended for courageous momins to try much more than the occasional terrorist attack. And Modi has a fearsome reputation, even if undeserved.
When there isn't a decent number of vulnerable kafirs to feast upon, the momin are designed to turn on each other. There's nothing special about the Ismailis, other than the fact that in the modern era, they have gotten rather out of practice with the getting-high-and-assassinating business, therefore are easy pickings.
(Rant inspired by shiv's observation that the moment any subset of Muslims take any kind of civilizational break from violent predation, they become de facto kafirs and are thus fair game for the Pious, Pure and Peaceful.
A corollary is that, in order to remain pious, it is important to stay superstitious and primitive, because any departure from that state carries the danger of rationality and civilized thinking, which is kufr and shirk).