Some time after 9/11, the Onion ran a piece about an insufferable leftist douchebag who, having suddenly acquired dozens of books about the history of Afghanistan, was casting himself as a self-styled expert of the region. We're reminded of that story every time some LA Times reading academic condescendingly explains to us that "Sunnis and Shiites are very different" and "hate each other". Yeah, they hate each other so much that Shiite Iran is willing to fund Sunni Hamas in their mutual cause of wiping Israel off the map:

There's a post to be written about Newsweek letting a terrorist supporter rationalize his terrorist supporting ways in their august pages (we recall how during WWII Mussolini was regularly interviewed by American press outlets "to help the American people understand", right?) But that's a post for a different time. For now: it turns out that Sunnis and Shiites do work together. Who knew?

References:
* Larijani admits Iran financing Hamas [JPost]

Previously:
* UNSC Declines To Condemn Iran For Threatening To Annihilate Israel
* Iran On the Verge Of Major Nuke Increase, UN Will Get To It Eventually
* Persecution Of Baha'is In Egypt and Iran Fails To Gain International Attention [Video]

Cross-posted to:
* The Astute Bloggers