I've been thinking about writing a post on how the Shia-Sunni violence in Iraq has driven a spear right through the heart of the concept of pan-Islamic identity and unity but in the meantime, something else to think about. This is what Thomas Friedman asks in today's NY Times:
It’s hard to know what’s more disturbing: the barbaric sectarian murders by Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, or the deafening silence with which these mass murders are received in the Muslim world. How could it be that Danish cartoons of Muhammad led to mass violent protests, while unspeakable violence by Muslims against Muslims in Iraq every day evokes about as much reaction in the Arab-Muslim world as the weather report? Where is the Muslim Martin Luther King? Where is the “Million Muslim March” under the banner: “No Shiites, No Sunnis: We are all children of the Prophet Muhammad.”