Case for a Secular Polity
Following the aftermath of Iraq war, as Middle East is inching closer and closer to a conflict on sectarian lines, the doom's day for Muslim world is nearing. If a sectarian conflict erupts in Iraq, because of their numbers and organization in the region (an organized, well planned and stable Iran vs. the unstable, unorganized and shallow Arab monarchies) Shias are bound to dominate it. This complete Shia dominance in Iraq after the dominance of Hizbollah in Lebanon will be the last straw on the back of old Mid-Eastern order (an order of minority Sunni regimes over majority Shia masses). The influence will spill across the region and Shia majorities in the region will be in a position to offer challenge to the Sunni/Wahabi monarchies in Yemen, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. This will give Shias the dominance in Middle East for the first time in 1400 years of Islam (Middle East is the only region in the Muslim world with Shia majority in a world where Sunnis out weigh Shias by appox. 7...