afghans, the rebellion in these the persians were trying to force afghans to convert sunni to shiite islam . the americans assumed that because of the sunni shia they must have been colluding with the ottoman empire which was of course the evil empire with the barbarous charts and the court say and had only started because the persians and ottomans were rivals , the great powers of the muslims they, and he must be my enemy, they all hated the evil turks and the fact that they were shia and therefore viewed by the majority sunni world is somehow less muslim and heretics, made and even more appealing. they were seen as less muslim somehow and i came across a newspaper that described the rivalry between ottomans and persians as the conflict between muslims andpersia which is an interesting way to present it . the southeast don't say that. >> this was this idyllic and on top of that there was this back iran and the persian empire wasn't in control of their religious side from jerusalem and on, that you talk about where they get their information but puritans especially in new england were calv