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On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Susan Maneck sman...@gmail.com wrote:
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Susan said that Muawiyyah wasn't a pious man and questioned the
sincerity of his conversion and therefore his status as a companion.
Those certainly aren't Sunni
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As far as the government actually physically setting up bombs to go off
right before planes they sent to be flown into the towers, no there isn't
any real good evidence for that at all. But there are some interesting
things about the tragedy. In 2000, a document
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I would point out that in the history of Sunni-Shia polemics it is
actually very common for Shias to argue from Sunni sources.
Rhetorically it can come off as a neat trick
Dear Gilberto,
Is it a 'trick' or merely reflective of the fact that the evidence is
on their
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I think this conversation is interesting. I'm not Sunni or Shi'a, but I
think both narratives have merit.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Susan Maneck sman...@gmail.com wrote:
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I would point out that in the history of Sunni-Shia polemics
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I think these links can help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi%27a_view_of_the_Sahaba
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi%27a_view_of_Aisha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi%27a_view_of_Abu_Bakr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi%27a_view_of_Umar
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Susan Maneck sman...@gmail.com wrote:
G:
For
example Ghadeer Khum is in the Sunni hadith collections too and Sunnis
largely agree with Shias on the outward facts, but with a very
different understanding. In terms of the current
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No. They agree that certain words were said which Shia INTERPRET one
way, and Sunnis INTERPRET another.
Why don't you share with us exactly what those words were?
The comment is not really true or illuminating.
It is true that the Wahhabis adhere to the Hanbali
