"SPRING" MY ASS: THE ARAB/MUSLIM UNREST IS DEVOLVING INTO SECTARIAN WAR‏

REUTERS: "Bahrain bans Lebanon travel, sectarian tension rises"

Bahrain warned its nationals on Tuesday not to travel to Lebanon for their own safety, after Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah came out in support of weeks of protests by mainly Shi'ite demonstrators.

The warning highlights growing tensions in the world's largest oil-exporting region between Sunni-ruled Arab countries and non-Arab Shi'ite power Iran, just across Gulf waters.

Bahrain has already withdrawn its top diplomats from Iran in a protest over the Islamic Republic's criticism of last week's crackdown on mainly Shi'ite protesters in the island kingdom.

(BACKGROUND ON THE SECTARIAN SPLIT HERE.)

TRUE ISLAM IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH TRUE DEMOCRACY.

(ONLY A "BAD MUSLIM" CAN BE A GOOD CITIZEN IN A WESTERN DEMOCRACY.

NEED PROOF? HERE: WHAT KIND OF MUSLIM WAS MOHAMED, PBUH? WAS HE A SMALL "D" DEMOCRAT OR AN ISLAMO-TERRORISTIST LIKE BIN LADEN?)

UNTIL ARAB MUSLIMS OVERTHROW THEIR INNER ISLAMISTS, ARAB PEOPLE WILL NOT OVERTHROW THEIR TYRANTS, AND ARAB NATIONS CANNOT BECOME DEMOCRACIES.

UPDATE: VIA DINOCRAT:

Niall Ferguson:

a peaceful transition to Western-style democracy in the Arab world is, of all the scenarios, the least probable. The more likely outcomes are (a) 1848-style restorations of the old regimes; (b) a descent into protracted civil wars; (c) Islamist takeovers; (d) a regionwide Sunni-Shiite conflict. By the way, (b), (c), and (d) are not necessarily mutually exclusive. They may be a sequence of events.

There are reasons not to be surprised if Ferguson is correct, and BTW you can expect all sorts of silly explanations of same if chaos occurs.

EXACTLY!