Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
"perhaps it's time for a change in the custodian of the holy sites."
trouble is most of the World's Moslems are Sunni not Shia - you'd be handing them over to the Ayatollahs and similar who like to dictate religion (similar to the Popes) whereas Sunni is (ideally) only you and your direct relationship with God without ANY intermediaries
Harry, I am aware of that, but it is my opinion that the underlying tension is more Persian Arab than Sunni / Shiite in this particular case. (And of course, it's never as simple as either ....)