A bloody beginning: Most of you might already know how Muhammad began Islam through bloody conquest. They were really, for all intents and purposes, desert raiders. They sacked and looted caravans and killed them that traveled with them. They killed Jews too.
This same violent beginning created the differences in Shiites and Sunnis...is it any wonder we see what we see happening today? I believe the west is totally asleep to the Islamic threat
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Why do shiites hate sunnis?
While testifying before Congress concerning the "possibility" of civil war, Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned, "Shiites and Sunnis are going to have to love their children more than they hate each other."
But why do they hate each other?
Both Sunnis and Shiites have the Koran (Qur'an) as the source of their beliefs and believe "'There is but one God, Allah, and Mohammed is His prophet." The deadly difference concerns who are Mohammed's rightful successors.
Shiites believe that only those in the bloodline of Mohammed can be in leadership.
Sunnis, who make up 90 percent of Muslims, believe that the leader (imam) of the Muslim community should be selected on the basis of the leader's individual merits and communal consensus regardless of lineage.
The split occurred after Mohammed's death in 623 AD when community leaders elected a close companion of the prophet named Abu Bakr to become the first Caliph (Arabic for "successor"). Although most Muslims accepted this decision, some supported the candidacy of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the Prophet's cousin and son-in-law. Ali's supporters, now the Shiites, assassinated the third Caliph in 656 AD and made Ali the Caliph. Then, what are now the Sunnis, assassinated Ali in 670 AD, and the deadly division was solidified.
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