As Christians, we can have a degree of sympathy for, or at least understanding of, the Twelver Shias. We have been persecuted, sidelined and shunned by our western secular societies, but are never going to give up our faith, even if driven into modern equivalents of the catacombs. Dealing with the war that is fundamentally a religious one, as you say, also bumps up against the modernist concept of religious liberty. This heresy has provided cover for the tolerance, acceptance and pernicious growth of Islam within western nations, whereas in past centuries we fought tooth and nail to keep Muslims out. Just yesterday was the feast day of St John Capistrano, who was crucial in turning back Mehmed II at Belgrade in 1466. Even without the Twelver “extremists”, Islam would always remain a dangerous ideology with global conquest at its root. Living with it in a globalist world will always be uneasy.