The news in the 1960-70s-80s didn't report these atrocities mainly because groups like Taliban, Hezbollah to Al Qaeda were operating in certain territories based on politIcal outcomes not Sunni Shia differences.

Sunni and Shia haven't been waging continue war against each other for thousands of years. That is false.
Today's fight is more politIcal and even ideological than religious or sectarian.

Taliban a political movement based on Afghanistan issues- politIcs started them.
Hezbollah a political Movement based on Lebanon issues funded by Iran backed by Syria- not created to fight in the name of sectarianism.

Al Qaeda another group that didn't exist for thousands, not even hundreds of years. Preaching that
a Christian–Jewish alliance is conspiring to destroy Islam. Again. Not created to fight Muslims.

As Salafist: another groups born the previous century focused on killing government officials, politicians and foreigners not formed to kill Muslims.

PLO Yasser Arafat's Palestinian liberation moment didn't come to being to wage war against Muslims, rather standing to fight A new nation Israel backed by the UN telling them GET OUT you ain't got no land..live on a strip of land. They fought to get back their land not to engage in sectarian killings.

Dawa again.another political group using theocracy in place of government issues aka politics. Yet another group that took to running for political positions and not to fIght Muslims.

Wahhabism the oldest of all aBove did Fight against Muslims but not on the basis of Sunni vs Shia.rather a lifestyle that today would be called the westernizing of Muslims. Ironically son of Ibn Saud unified with him...his region what we today call modern Saudi Arabia.
Osama considered a student of such...as his letter to America post 9-11 denounced western culture...and his blood brethren who accepted such a lifestyle aka Saddam Hussein who loved Stalin.

I'm not agreeing with him, but pointing out when Muslims did fight each other....it was nothing like the shit we've seen since 9-11 2001.
Pre 2001 mosques were sanctuaries for both, what happened after thousands of years of such tHinking..NOW they bomb mosques?

Who can recite shit like this happening in the 1970s? 1520s? These organizations never existed back then. ISIS or ISIL is no more influenced by the Koran than the KKK loving the bible.
But that didn't make a klansmen a Christian any more then reading a Korean can make a ISIL member a Muslim.

America is directly responsible for this monster. Disagree? Then denounce Zbrewsinski. Call him a liar. Denounce Reagan who brought those nutfucks to the White House and voiced HIS SUPPORT.

Denounce Jewish neocon Richard Perle who help graft the Iraq Liberation act..that he and neocons wrote for Clinton to sign...aka regime change.
Denounce Pentagon undersecretary Paul Wolfowitz who said his administration (Bush Jr) used WMD to go invade Iraq...because they didn't think the American people would want to..if they really knew why Cheney...and Bush leading from behind his Vice...were really invading for...


Just like the west great model...DIVIDE then conquer worked when natives in AmerIca had to discern wHich European to ally themselves with..England, Spain, France...would inevitably mean one Indian tribe that already had differences with..would now become a permanent enemy. Before Europeans Navajo, Cherokee, Potomac, So many tribes didn't get along, so they divided land to live in peace.
Same with Sunni and Shia...until the great dividers and conquerors came..