Sunni Shia

The Muslim world is made up of Sunni and Shia groups and 90% are Suni. Iran is 90% Sunni and most of the other countries are 90% or more Shia. In other words Iran stands alone in the Muslim world as the only dominant Shia country and this is and has been an irritation. Iraq is a unique situation since it is 60% Sunni and 40% Shia and so Saddam, a Sunni, could dominate the country. The current leader in Iraq, al-Maliki, is a Shia and some say he is becoming a Shia Saddam. A few days after the US forces left, al-Maliki got rid of the highest ranking Sunni in the government, Tariq al-Hashemi. Now we get word that al-Maliki is allowing Iran to overfly Iraq with planes loaded with military equipment for Syria. Fighting between different religious sects is called sectarian and this is what has been going on in Iraq between Sunni and Shia for many years. It appears that one of the main differences between Iraq before the war and after the war is the change in power from Sunni to Shia.