| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/08/13, 1:08 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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CLASHES between Islam's two big sects, the Sunni and the Shia, take place across the Muslim world. In the Middle East a potent mix of religion and politics has sharpened the divide between Iran’s Shia government and the Gulf states, which have Sunni governments. Last year a report by the Pew Research Centre, a think tank, found 40% of Sunnis do not consider Shia to be proper Muslims. So what exactly divides Sunni and Shia Islam and how deep does the rift go?
The argument dates back to the death in 632 of Islam’s founder, the Prophet Muhammad. Tribal Arabs who followed him were split over who should inherit what was both a political and a religious office. The majority, who would go on to become known as the Sunnis, and today make up 80% of Muslims, backed Abu Bakr, a friend of the Prophet and father of his wife Aisha. Others thought Muhammad’s kin
the rightful successors. They claimed the Prophet had anointed Ali, his cousin and son-in-law—they became known as the Shia, a contraction of "shiaat Ali", the partisans of Ali. Abu Bakr’s backers won out, though Ali did briefly rule as the fourth caliph, the title given to Muhammad’s successors. Islam's split was cemented when Ali’s son Hussein was killed in 680 in Karbala (modern Iraq) by the ruling Sunni caliph’s troops. Sunni rulers continued to monopolise political power, while the Shia lived in the shadow of the state, looking instead to their imams, the first twelve of whom were descended directly from Ali, for guidance. As time went on the religious beliefs of the two groups started to diverge.
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| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/08/13, 7:31 PM | Message # 2 | DMCA |
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Ha! Ha! Hell yes, JJ. 
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| PapaSmurf | Date: Tuesday, 2013/08/13, 8:22 PM | Message # 3 | DMCA |
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Thx Blue.
Very edifying
I find stuff like this fascinating
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| norm | Date: Sunday, 2014/02/16, 1:14 AM | Message # 4 | DMCA |
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i just don't know what to think about these silly thinktanks
1) are you muslim
2) sunni or shia
3) are they muslim
When ye ask strangers questions like this, ye get exactly the answer ye want. Ye can even print yer latest opinion pole in the middle of local religious year and/or State fiscal year and mix the whole lot together with previous years and confuse the shyte outte me from here until breakfast time, which during ramadan would be evening i suppose. and did i pay church tax or have i stopped beating me wiffee out of the temple !
These Abreham notions of mono idea'rs would have me believe that people get stupid every 600yrs or so and have to start counting from the start again. No no no, we are the believe they are a sect. Woot whoever says it first gets the last word. !!
How would I know I was an Irish Catholic, lessen somebody told me there was proddi who not really irish.. bit bloody irish this, don't ye think !!!
On average people in Japan have 1.7 religions.. not sure if they know this.
Walking in the park, with 80yr old mother-in-law and a young lady left her child in peramulater and came to ask 'are you muslim' not sure what was meant. But my gran sister-in-law (well me danish daughters ex husbonds mothers mother) Turkish lived long and i suspect partly because of daily ablusions. she would rise before dawn go to public gathering and breakfast five times a day.
moral of the story... have yer eggs on sunny side and shyte down hill
pps Persian 'gulf states are sunni'... this is factually incorect
norman keena
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