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=> Re: The myth of the 1,400 year Sunni-Shia war
| Re: The myth of the 1,400 year Sunni-Shia war |
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Rashad
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I spend many hours, I say hundreds of hours(no exaggeration) in the library studying Islam and it's history and I never found anything similar between Shia/sunni and what Christians did to one another. Even the battles of Karbala were between troops and not women and children. There was no incident where shia women and children had to hide in mosques and fake their identity because of sunnis, vice versa. There many such stories between Catholic and Protestants and other denominations. The worse histility I have seen comes from Salafis and it's directed toward both Sunnis and more against shias. Even they don't go that far, and they just avoid one another trash talk. There are many shias in Saudi Arabia, and though they don't have it the best, but they still live and practice their shia customs without getting killed. This writer has it correct and it has never been that bad, especially not how the west makes it seem. Shia and sunnis still marry one another, pray behind same imams, etc. They differ on secondary matters and later additions that were made. Originally it was always a dispute about who the imam is after Muhammad. Shias were basically the ones who rejected the caliphs Abu Bakr, etc and sided with Ali and believe only his descendants can be the leaders. Christians are a little embarrassed and wanna flip it around. Iran is a shia country and could have easily sided with the US against Afghanistan yet they didn't. If they hated sunnis so much, they would be after them. Saudis hate shias and that's mostly the salafis, and they don't like anyone unless they're of their views. --------------------- |
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