And of course, this Friday, you know, coming up on us, anyone have any thoughts or insight as to, you know, what do we expect to see on the street in other Islamic countries? Of course, you know, in and outside of the Middle East. You've got Malaysia, you've got Indonesia, you've got a few other countries that are Islamic as well. And I'm just curious what the panel thinks about, you know, Friday.
I'll be quite honest with you when it comes to Islamic extremism. We have to be totally clear about the threat of international Islamic extremism, which overwhelmingly comes from the Sunni sect of Islam. Overwhelmingly.
ISIS, Wahhabism, 9-11, the embassy bombings, First World Trade Center bombing. All of these was from the Sunni branch. The Shia branch of Islam is not as internationalized.
Because number one, it's not necessarily a part of their doctrine. But number two, it's often because it's smaller, right? It's a smaller sect of Islam, which would obviously make the numbers proportional, right? But when you're talking about terrorist attacks around the world, and internationalizing terrorist attacks, they generally, and I'm saying outside the Middle East. Let me be very clear about that.
Outside of the Middle East, they, more than the majority, overwhelmingly come from the Sunni side of the Islamic doctrine, the extremism of Wahhabism. And so not all of them are like that, but ISIS was certainly like that. And that's where it came from.
The terrorist attacks that you get from the Shia sect tend to be more focused on individual actors against the Shia sect. Not necessarily the idea of the West and destroying the West. And the Islamic caliphate is a big thing, right? That is not a part of the Shia sect.
The idea of a caliphate does not reside in a strong portion within the Shia sect of Islam. It does in the Sunni, but not in the Shia. No, I get what you're saying.
I guess my question was, you know, do we anticipate any sort of, you know, unrest or protesting in mass amounts on Friday? I mean, that's typical. The first Friday after a major event happens, historically, after prayers is when the people hit the street. So I'm just curious if anyone, you know, has any insight into that.
