Great post on the Kerry Blog about the Sunni/Shia divide with lots of links

[beachmom]

So color me a hopeless foreign policy wonk. Knowledge is power I say, and this post is full of it.

http://blog.johnkerry.com/2007/02/how_conflicts_within_islam_wil.html

It includes an excerpt from the book Kerry recommended "The Shia Revival" (it'll be available in paperback soon) and an NPR series of reports of that history. Really quite interesting, so check it out. This is quality stuff for the blogs, not just Kerry's blog, so I'm just very happy that they're still there even if Kerry isn't running for prez.