Joel Hammer wrote:
> > Let me please explain that the word "muslims" is too broad.
> > There are Sunni moslims and there are Shi'ite moslems.
> > The Sunnis are as nice of people as you could ever hope to meet,
> > The Shi'ites are the one that even the Sunnis dislike.
> > Ths Shi'ites are the ones to direct your hostilities to.
>
> I lived in Iran for about 8 months. I never figured out the difference
> between the two type of Islam
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The Shi'ites are the followers after Ali, the grandson of Mohammedan. About 50yrs after
Mohammedan died Ali was killed in battle by his fellow arabic muslims, the Sunnis.
From that
time onward the Sunni's have ruled the Muslim world. That left the Shi'iets with a
chip on
their shoulder as they believe that only they are the true muslims because they are
descended
from the line of the Mohammedan. It galls them that Mecca is in the hands of the
heathen
Sunnis. From the point of view of religious doctrine the Shi'ites and the Sunnis are
just about
the same thing. Sort of like the difference between Church of God folks and
conservative
Southern Baptists; they are just about the same thing
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