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...second analogy helps answer this question. There is a doctrine of Shi'ite Islam called taqiya, whereby a follower of the Shi'a is allowed to dissimulate in the face of persecution. That means that he can renounce his faith in an emergency, and then renounce his renunciation later, with no permanent ill effects on his piety. This doctrine was developed out of historical necessity--the Shi'ites have often been a minority in Sunni states, and have met repeated persecutions over the centuries...
...million a year in war materiel to Iraq, and there are said to be at least 25,000 Egyptian volunteers fighting on the Iraqi side against Iran. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has condemned such acts by moderate Arabs, but, even with his bursts of Iranian-inspired Shi'ite terrorism, he has not stopped them. In Kuwait last week, the government announced that 25 people, including 17 Iraqis, would go on trial beginning Feb. 11 on charges of carrying out bombings against the American and French embassies and other targets in December. At the time it appeared that those acts...
...government also faced problems in southern Lebanon, where Shi'ite residents have become increasingly violent in their opposition to the Israeli presence...
Last week, after an Israeli position near Tyre came under fire, Israeli troops besieged the Shi'ite mountain village of Halloussiyeh. They arrested eight villagers, including the local prayer leader, Sheik Abbas Harb, and bulldozed his house to the ground. Villagers threw stones at the Israelis and set tires afire on nearby roads...
Shortly afterward, an anonymous caller telephoned the French news agency Agence France-Presse and said that the assassination of Kerr had been carried out by members of the Islamic Jihad, the same Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim group that is believed to have bombed the U.S. and French military headquarters in Beirut last October as well as the Israeli headquarters in Tyre. The caller said that Kerr was "the victim of the American military presence in Beirut," and vowed that "not a single American or Frenchman will remain on this soil...