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originally posted by: buster2010
Poor Saudi Arabia karma can be a @%$#* can't it. Do unto others long enough and it will eventually come back to bite you on the ass.
originally posted by: kwakakev
If all it takes to unite the Islamic and Muslim world is a small band of warriors then good for them. Have they not suffered enough under our own self interested and ignorant western ideals?.
originally posted by: khnum
a reply to: Lostinthedarkness
At the one minute mark he mentions HIS MUSLIM FAITH furthermore he announces that John Mc Cain IS AWARE OF IT but has chosen to say nothing now why would he do that when just the mention of it would of guaranteed him the Presidency?
originally posted by: Lostinthedarkness
a reply to: khnum
Did you ever watch the old movie The Manchurian Candidate ? I wonder if he is ?
originally posted by: khnum
a reply to: Lostinthedarkness
If you dealing with an infidel you can lie to him with a clear conscience,deception is quite ok with their teachings as for manchurian candidates no I dont think so just a double dealing slimey s.o.b
originally posted by: Xtrozero
Am I the only one to kind of want to see Saudi pillaged and plundered by some crazed group? It seems they are the only untouchable and maybe they should taste some of what they influence. They are all smug mothers anyways, a little reality would go a long way.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
- ISIS isn't 'uniting' the Muslim world. The Islamic world can not ever be united. Shia and Sunni and ISIS ... they are slaughtering each other over who gets the title 'religion of peace'. I say that everyone should 'butt out' and let them have at it.
- Islam enslaves people with threats of death and beatings and rape ... it doesn't unite them.
- You call western ideals ignorant .. but how about the Islamic ideals of not allowing women to drive; not allowing women equal say in a court of law; putting rape victims to death for the 'sin' of being raped; morals police roaming the streets and beating women who dare to show an ankle; withholding education from women because the women become too independent and they won't want to get married; no freedom of religion and freedom from religion; no freedom of speech; no freedom of the press; etc etc ....
The name Sunni comes from "Ahl-a-Sunnah", meaning the "people of tradition", denoting the traditional approach to appointing Muhammad's successor. Shia is derived from "Shiat Ali", meaning "the party of Ali".
Sunni Muslims appoint a caliph as leader, whilst Shia Muslim's appoint an imam. According to Dr Carool Kersten, senior lecturer in the study of Islam and the Muslim world at King's College London, the divide denotes a split in what was seen as the role of Muhammad's successors.
"There was a schism very early on and theological differences developed from this. The imams were considered to be infallible, whilst for the Sunnis the caliph was just a man, there to maintain law and order."
However, the split between the groups was not definitive straight away. Ali was appointed by the Sunni Muslims as the fourth caliph - in that moment uniting the two factions' leaders, both imam and caliph, into one person. He survived five years before dying in mysterious circumstances.
Ali's son Hussein was not appointed caliph under the Sunnis, despite being the rightful heir under Shia beliefs. His death at the hands of the Sunni Umayyad family at the Battle of Karbala made him a martyr for the Shia cause. According to Dr Kersten, this was the decisive moment in splitting the Sunnis from the Shias.
Sunnis are the more dominant form of Islam - at least 80 per cent of Muslims worldwide.However, Shia Muslims are the majority in some other countries such as Iran, Iraq, and more recently, Lebanon.
However, rivalries between the groups exist. The deaths of Ali and Hussein, and the fact that, as the minority, Shias have endured a more unpleasant history of repression, creates a theme of martyrdom throughout Shia history.
Sunnis, who often see themselves as the more traditional branch of Islam, have refered to Shias as "rejectors", because of their perceived rejection of tradition.