The reality is all over the Middle East Shia and Sunni are not living together peacefully, right now they are engaged in a war, wishing otherwise isn't going to help.
To a large degree it is a war we blunderingly inflamed, famously GW Bush wasn't aware that there was more than one type of Muslim.
Both sects view the other as apostates, and both sides have, at times over the last thousand years, tried to wipe out the other.
Do all Sunni and Shia view each other this way, obviously not, but it takes next to nothing, a few market place bombs and a few beheadings to push everyone back into this feud.
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