Wednesday, March 21, 2007

The Sunni/Shia Divide

I received an e-mail from a senior polling analyst for the BBC who analyzed the poll I discussed yesterday, and broke it down according to Sunni/Shia responses.

Here are some of the more interesting results:
  • 93% of Sunni Arabs describe their life today as quite or very bad, compared to 47% of Shia (Q1);
  • 71% of Sunni Arabs believe their children will have a worse life than them, compared to 18% of Shia (Q5);
  • 85% of Sunnis think things in Iraq are somewhat or much worse than Spring 2003, compared to 32% of Shia (Q7).
  • 93% of Sunnis believe the security situation in their village/neighbourhood is quite or very bad, compared to 38% of Shias (q11);
  • 96% of Sunnis say the availability of jobs in their village/neighbourhood is quite or very bad, compared to 70% of Shia (Q11);
  • 93% of Sunni say their family's protection from crime in their village/neighbourhood is quite or very bad, compared to 50% of Shia (Q11);
  • 97% of Sunnis favour a unified Iraq with a central government in Baghdad in the favour, compared to 41% of Shia's (Q14);
  • Shia's are split between one unified Iraq with a central government in Baghdad in the future (41%), compared to 40% who favour a group of regional states with their own regional governments and a federal government in Baghdad and 19% who favour a country divided into three separate independent states (Q14);
  • 94% of Sunnis believe the national government has done quite or a very bad job, compared to 68% of Shia who say it has done a quite or very good job (Q20);
  • 96% of Sunnis disprove of the way the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is handling his job, compared to 67% of Shias who approve (Q21);
  • 88% of Sunnis say they consider the US government to control things in Iraq, while 50% of Shia believe the Iraqi government is in control (Q23);
  • 97% of Sunni oppose the presence of coalition forces in the Iraq compared to 83% of Shia (Q25);
  • 97% of Sunnis feel not very safe or not safe at all in their neighborhoods, compared to 71% of Shia (Q33);
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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous9:03 PM, May 13, 2007

    Good, let Sunni pigs feel unsafe in their homes for a change. Sunnis have crapped on Shi'a for centuries, and they still do in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the rest of the Gulf, and in Lebanon, until Hezbollah stopped Sunni and Maronite Christian abuse against them.

    I would love to see a war between Israel and Iraqi Sunnis, with both suffering heavy casualties.

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