Sometimes there is news to cheer us up.

From Pakistan, for example, we learn that Islam-madded Shi'a, out for the Al Quds Day "celebration" of rage against Israel, with flag-burning, and calls for mass murdering of "Zionists" and Jews, and every conceivable expression of hysterical hatred by primitives (who remain hopelessly primitive because all they have is Islam, and Islam stunts mental as well as moral growth), and these primitives have been told, and do believe, that while all Infidels are hateful, Jews are the special enemies of Allah and of Muhammad. Israel is an affront because it is not permissible for an Infidel nation-state, no matter how tiny, to exist anywhere on land that was once ruled by Muslims. Lest you, in North America or Western Europe, take comfort from that, remind yourself that  in the end, as the whole world rightly belongs to Allah and to Muslims, the "best of peoples," no Infidel nation-states may continue to exist, in the long run, anywhere.

So they went out, those Shi'a in Pakistan, for a holiday of hate, and found that right there, among fellow, but Sunni, Muslims, hate was waiting for them, and the bombs went off, as the Taliban, those uber-Sunnis (remember that the Shi'a Hazara were being decimated, and might have been destroyed altogether, by the Taliban, had the American cavalry not arrived in time). Of course the object of their hatred are Israelis whom these Pakistani Shi'a do not know, but have been told and do therefore believe, are their enemies, the enemies of God, as being non-Muslims, Jews, the sons of apes and pigs, the people who may have poisoned Muhammad, the Perfect Man. And then, in the midst of this macabre Al Quds Day, no less and no more macabre than the other Al Quds Days held elsewhere in the hate-maddened Muslim world, with all this muharramish weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, and expressions of hysterical hatred, and threats, and flag burnings, and smashing of property where there would no doubt be not only the expressions of hysterical hatred, but perhaps also some muharramish weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth -- what, really, is Israel to them, or they to Israel, were it not for the minds prepared by Islam to hate the Jews and to insist that all lands once posssessed by Muslims can never, no matter what, come into the possession of any group of non-Muslims -- have been attacked by Sunni "extremists." Or "violent extremists." No doubt a "small minority of violent extremists" -- the same ones with whom the Shi'a otherwise can join in attacking and even murdering Ahmadiyya Muslims, or that the Ahmadiyya Muslims, in turn, can join with both the Shi'a and the Sunni Muslims to attack, and even murder, the Christians of Pakistan.

What a sense of accomplishment that must bring, to Sunnis attacking killing Shi'a, to Sunnis and Shi'a attacking and kiling Ahmadis, to Sunnis, Shi'a and Ahmadis attacking and killing Christians. Fun for the whole family.

And once the Sunni Arabs and the Shi'a Arabs go at it, in Iraq, will this lessen tensions in Pakistan between Sunnis and Shi'a? What about Lebanon? Bahrain? Yemen? Kuwait? Saudi Arabia? What would happen to Sunnis in the Islamic Republic of Iran, say, in eastern Iran, close to Baluchistan? 

What should we wish for those Muslim lands where Sunnis and Shi'a now are to be found in sufficient numbers to matter to the other sect?

That they might their Quettas make. With bare bodkins or bombs, it hardly matters.