Is this a tipping point for world?

Sometimes there is a tipping point where one event can cause a world meltdown.
Is this a tipping point for world?
Wed, 06 Jan, 2016 - 00:00
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The latest tipping point could be the execution, by Saudi Arabia, of Shi’ite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr.

I hope his execution does not start another World War, like the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria did in 1914.

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