AFP reports :
"Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah warned Saturday that stoking sectarian differences could threaten the kingdom's unity and security.
"The stirring up of sectarian conflicts ... and the superiority of one part of the society over another contradict Islam, and pose a threat to national unity and to the security of society and state," King Abdullah told the opening session of the kingdom's Shura (consultative) council.
"The challenge that faces us is to protect this national unity and to strengthen it," he told the all-male members of the appointed council.
King Abdullah vowed to continue the kingdom's efforts to diffuse regional tension between the Sunnis and the Shiites.
Saudi Arabia is dominated by the ultra-conservative Sunni doctrine of Wahabism -- many of its followers describe Shiite Muslims as rejectionists."
The King is trying get to the Sunni traditional clergy to accept diversity and existence of other schools of thoughts in Saudi Arabia.
The King is concerned because Ayatollah Sistani has been calling for Parliamentary democracy and the exercise of the will of the people for the Shi'ites in the oasis of al-Hasa, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, which angered Riyadh.
Now, Sistani's Shiites are the major political force in Iraq. They are leaders in the new government; they run the key Interior Ministry; and one of their own, Nouri al-Maliki, serves as prime minister.