The Sunni-Shiaa Tension Is Real And Dangerous.

The New York Times reports on grizzly details of Lebanon’s latest ordeal.

He says Hezbollah electrocuted his Genitals (Photo: NY Times)

Hezbollah and Amal appear to be in complete denial that any “Sunni-Shiaa” fitna is taking place in Lebanon. They argue that Hezbollah’s only cause is Jihad against Israel, and that the Sunnis surely must understand this since Hamas, their co-Jihadists, are Sunnis.

If only things were so simple. Today, Robert Worth and Nada Bakri delve deep into the Sunni-Shiaa “ignited fuse” in a homepage report in the New York Times, which starts with a chilling account of the alledged torture of one of Hariri’s men, who was speaking with the Times from the safety of Menieh, a pro-Hariri town in the north:

For two and a half days, Hussein al-Haj Obaid lay on the floor of a darkened warehouse in west Beirut, blindfolded and terrified. Militiamen loyal to Hezbollah had kidnapped him at a checkpoint after killing his nephew right in front of him.

Throughout those awful days, as his kidnappers kicked and punched him, applied electrical shocks to his genitals and insulted him with sectarian taunts, he could hear the chatter of gunfire and the crash of rocket-propelled grenades outside, where Hezbollah and its allies were taking control of the capital.

He returned to this northern village only after family members won his release just over a week ago by threatening the kidnappers with retaliation. By that time Mr. Obaid, a Sunni Muslim, had gained a whole new way of seeing his Shiite countrymen and his native land.

I recommend you read the entire thing.