On 5/13/06, Iskandar Hai, M.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gilberto:
> > > If this is a religious issue (and not a political issue or a
> > > cultural issue) then why do Sunnis and Shias kill each other in
> > > Iraq but not on the southside of Chicago?
> I:
> > What has that got to do with the issue.
Gilberto:
Because people don't always state or even understand the real
motivations for their own actions.
Iskandar:
There does not have to be a global
> > wafare and killing between Sunni and Shi`ah.
If you want to say that the issue is purely religious without any
other factors then yes, there actually does have to be.
The sectarian violence and
> > hatred between the Shi`ah and the Sunni Muslims is definitely religious
> > and goes back 1400 years.
Maybe YOU were raised to hate Sunnis. I certainly don't hate Shias.
Iskandar:
> > No, it's not cultural or political. I can't
> > understand why you are dismissing and minimizing the lethality of
> > religious sectarian violence between Shi`ah and Sunni Islam...
Gilberto:
> I'm not dismissing the lethality. People are definitely dying.
ISkandar:
> and trying to
> > explain it away as a non-religious issue. There are a number of reasons
> > why Shi`ah/Sunni killing doesn't occur in Chicago.
Gilberto:
> Like?
Iskandar:
Maybe Chicago is a civilized city, with some law and order, that makes it
impermissible for Sunni-Shi`ah killing.
Gilberto:
So Sunnis and Shias in Iraq are killing each other because Iraqis are
less civilized than people in Chicago. That's not a religious issue.
.
>
> I"m sunni but I don't have any particular hatred for Shia. But I'm not
> one. And that's as far as it goes. If sunnis and shias in the middle
> east or in India are having trouble living peacefully together, it's
> not because their religion tells them to go kill each other. How do I
> know this? Because I have the same religion they do.
>
>
> -G
>
>
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The issue of who was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad is
a superficial issue?
Gilberto:
As far as explaining violence goes, yes. Just because people disagree,
that doesn't mean they have to go around killing each other.
-G
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