November 25, 2011: Sunni Arab governments continue to blame Iran for instigating the Shia Arab minority unrest in Saudi Arabia, and the Shia Arab majority rebellion in Bahrain But there has been no hard evidence of Iranian instigati...
Shia unrest. For one thing, Islamic conservatives have long preached openly against Shia Moslems, calling them heretics and worse.
The Saudi government prevents the Sunni fanatics from acting on these beliefs, but does not prohibit the preaching. In Bahrain, a Sunni Arab minority has long ruled a Shia Arab majority, and this sort of thing is never popular. While the anti-Shia attitude is not nearly as prominent in Bahrain, it is still there.
All Iranian media, which can be picked up by Shia in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, has to do is repeat the Shia side of this ancient conflict. Iran, the largest Shia nation on the planet, also believes that Shia Moslems should be the guardians of Mecca and Medina (the most sacred Islamic shrines, which the Saud family, and other Sunni clans, have guarded for centuries). It's this Shia-Sunni feud, and Iran's historical role as regional superpower that frightens the Sunni Arab rulers of Arabia.
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