"There's still a tendency to see these things in Sunni-Shia terms. But the Middle East is going to have to overcome that." - Condoleezza Rice, January 2007.
"Gaza Shiites claim Hamas persecution," by Ibrahim Barzak for the Associated Press, January 17:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A member of Gaza's tiny Shiite minority says followers were beaten by Hamas police during a religious ceremony last week.
The man said police burst into a house of a fellow Shiite during a gathering to commemorate the suffering of the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Imam Hussein. The man says about 15 worshippers were beaten and briefly detained. He declined to be identified fearing further harassment.
Interior Ministry spokesman Ihab Ghussein said Tuesday that the men were planning "criminal acts."
It's the first time Gaza's Shiite community, believed to number several dozen, has claimed harassment by the territory's Sunni Muslim rulers.
Despite theological differences, Hamas has traditionally had warm ties with Shiite Iran.
The relationship has reportedly not been as warm in the past year, however. Iran was said to have reduced funding to Hamas due in part to its lack of support for Syria's Assad.
I guess the opposite is happening in Lebannon with Hezbollah (shiite) beating Sunnis. Maybe they should swith places.
It's interesting that Hamas considers cutting yourself bloody a criminal act...Hamas beat them before they had a chance to beat themselves...Imam Hussein must be turning over on his love couch in Paradise, he always looks forward to the festival of Ashura in his honor...
Perhaps they'll wish they were back under the Jews, so to speak.
If they can't find anyone else to kill, muslims kill each other. There is no hope that these primitives will ever change, or be fit to live among civilized people.
Long may the continue to do so, kill each other, that is.
"There's still a tendency to see these things in Sunni-Shia terms. But the Middle East is going to have to overcome that." - Condoleezza Rice, January 2007.
Otherwise stated: But the Muslims are going to have to reject Islam.
I agree with you on this. But I think this an instance of innocent people who are caught in the middle between the Hamas terrorist and the vile Iranian government for settling scores.
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The root of the Sunni-Shia dispute is the question of who was supposed to succeed the Prophet Mohammed. In other words, a power struggle. Is Islam a religion or a political entity? I know which way I'm leaning.
the diffirence is sooooooooooo small. the Shia's belive that Muhamd's son in law Ali was the heir apparent while the sunni belive it was Osman. and for that simple reason they are murdering each other to the tune thousands every year!! ther you have it.
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Actually, the Sunnis say that the first Caliph was Abu Bekr, the father of Aisha. Son-in-law, father-in-law, it all looks like a family squabble.
Hamas? Persecuting Shi'ites?
Huh?
Noooo...can't be, right?
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They're all Mohammedists, right? It shouldn't matter who succeeded him, correct? After all, Mustafa was/is the Perfect Man, no? Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
The succession is moot, if Mustafa is to be revered as the last in the line of prophets and is regarded as Perfect.
Perfect is Perfect. Bach is perfect.
Why the squabble over second-string successionaries?. Any other person would be an "impostor", yes?
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Shirk "impersonation" between Mohammedist sects is the source of most of the trouble and murder in the contemporary world.
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See? This is the kind of internal contradiction, strife and blood feud within Islam that will help the communist powers destroy Islam after the unholy alliance of Comintern and Islam destroys Western Civilization.
The communist powers will then eradicate Islam in a richly deserved pogrom that will, in terms of sheer scale, make the shoah look like a picnic.
Then, humans having been deprived of all individual human worth, billions of people will be plowed under for fertilizer. Unless saved by the falun gong, on the rise in China as millions resign from the communist party.
Gee you are cheerful, aren't you?
So what are you, personally, planning to do, given that this is what you think is happening or going to happen?
Me, I intend to try to keep on keeping on, raising the alarm one person at a time - and praying that a combination of divine grace and Murphy's Law - Murphy's Law and SNAFU being at least as applicable to all the grand schemes, plots and plans hatched by evil people, as to anything else -will work in our favour in the long run.
PS - I suspect that more people in China are becoming Christians, than becoming members of Falun Gong.