Is there no end to John Kerry's buffoonery? I guess not. Here he plows into an attack on John McCain with dodgy history as his accomplice.
The whole mess started when Kerry accused McCain of being out-of-touch and "confuses the history going back to 682 of what has happened to Sunni and Shia". Au contraire, Senator Liveshot.
The date Senator Kerry cited this morning -- 682 A.D. -- has no significance in explaining the sectarian schism between Sunnis and Shiites. Shiites trace the split to 632 A.D. -- the year that Muhammed died -- not 682. The battle of Karbala -- one of the most important battles in the history of Islam, commemorated by Shia Muslims the world over during the holiday of Ashura -- took place in 680 A.D.
This is the danger of saying things under the illusion of erudition, you end up looking like a pompous idiot.
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