from cnsnews:

"I didn't know it at the time, but the ruling class of Bahrain is made up of almost exclusively Sunni Muslims while 70 percent of the residents are Shi'ites. I didn't know that at the time because at the time I didn't know there were Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims.

"And, in any event, I had always called them 'Moslems.'

"Imagine if, in the United States, the ruling class were made up of one Christian sect say, Episcopalians."