From LinkedIn Iran is burning. And the Muslim world is weeping. Pakistan. India. Turkey.

Battle Of Karbala

Crowds on streets.  Rage.  Grief. Nobody told them the truth.

Myth of Islamic unity as Tehran strikes Arab states in response to US-Israel attack

The call that started this war didn't come from Washington. It didn't come from Tel Aviv. It came from Riyadh. Multiple times.  Over several months. Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) picked up the phone. Called Donald Trump. And said one thing clearly: "Look. Last time you attacked Iran, you left the job half done.”

They came back stronger. “Finish it!!!" The same MBS who stood before the world and said: "We want no part of this conflict. Don't use our soil.  Don't use our airspace." Public neutrality. Private assassination order. Now you ask the obvious question. Why would a Muslim king want a Muslim country destroyed?

Go back 1,400 years

When Prophet Muhammad died, he named no successor. That silence broke the Muslim world in two. Shia believed Ali, the Prophet's cousin, should lead. Sunni disagreed. The argument didn't stay an argument. It became the Battle of Karbala. It became rivers of blood. It became a wound that never healed. Just got dressed in oil money and F-35s. 

Iran = Shia.  Persian.  Revolutionary.

Saudi Arabia =  Sunni.  Arab.  Royal.

Same God. Different thrones. 1,400 years of hatred.

Now look at the streets. Pakistan erupted. India erupted. Crowds screaming: "We will take revenge." Saudi Arabia? UAE?  Qatar?  Kuwait?  Bahrain? Nothing. Not grief.  Not rage.

Silence

That silence is a confession. The idea that all Muslims stand together against the non-Muslim world just died in real time. This was never a war between Islam and the West. This is an ancient throne war. For who leads the Ummah. For who becomes the Khalifa of the Muslim world.

America and Israel didn't start this. They just picked up the contract, that Riyadh quietly placed on the table. A brother doesn't backstab a brother. Unless the throne was always more important than the faith.

Kings do not read Quran.  They were reading the map.  Mecca.  Medina.  Oil fields.  Throne. That's what this war is about. When men fight for control of the holy land,  they call it God's will.

It never is. It is always.  Just the throne.