The Sunni-Shia split goes back to the beginning of Islam and has often been violent throughout Islamic history. The perception of an insult to Islam has all too often led to demands for the death of the offender, and if legal authorities don’t take action, mobs riot and call for lynching. In Western countries, such perceived insults have resulted increasingly in the vilification, demonization, and marginalization of the offender, indicating the West’s growing tacit acceptance of Islamic blasphemy law, which forbids criticism of Islam as part of its attempt to establish Islam and Muslims as supreme. Any other faith besides Islam can withstand criticism.
Inflaming the sectarian division and violence even more, al-Azhar in Egypt denounced the insults against Aisha.
“Lebanon Deescalates Sectarian Clashes After Tense Night,” Associated Press, June 7, 2020:
BEIRUT — The Lebanese military on Sunday said overnight riots and sectarian tensions in central Beirut and other areas left dozens of people injured, including 25 soldiers, and warned that the clashes had endangered national unity.
Riot police fired tear gas at protesters, after Saturday’s attempt to reboot anti-government demonstrations quickly degenerated into rioting and stone-throwing confrontations between opposing camps. Lebanese troops deployed to separate the rival groups, and the tensions eventually subsided before dawn Sunday.
The Lebanese Red Cross said 48 demonstrators were wounded, 11 of whom were hospitalized.
Shooting broke out in several areas around Lebanon late Saturday after videos circulated on social media showing some supporters of Lebanon’s two main Shiite Muslim groups — Hezbollah and Amal — chanting sectarian insults.
Saturday’s protests were the largest since the government last month began gradually easing a lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. Nationwide protests against Lebanon’s political leaders had erupted on Oct. 17 amid an unprecedented economic and financial crisis, but were eventually put on hold due to the pandemic.
Lebanon’s army — one of the few institutions seen as a uniting force in the deeply-divided country — called Saturday’s clashes “a serious crisis that could have taken us into dangerous turns. What happened undermined national unity, civil peace and would have increased divisions.”
Political and religious leaders issued calls for calm Sunday, after many Sunnis were angered by the online videos of insults against one of the wives of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. The schism between Sunni and Shiite in the early days of Islam was deepened when the Prophet Muhammad’s widow, Aisha, fought a battle against the prophet’s cousin and son-in-law, Imam Ali, who is one of Shiite Islam’s most revered figures.
Hezbollah and Amal issued statements condemning the type of insults seen in the videos, as did Shiite religious leaders. Sunni leaders also condemned the insults and urged calm…..
Templer says
See even in Muslim mojortey countreys this cult wil not live inpeace it’s satins cult
FYI says
Of course allah{“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54} did MISS the Golden Rule and teaches pretty much the OPPOSITE of the 2nd Chief Commandment of the Actual God YHWH {Lev19:18}:islam has no concept of ‘love thy neighbor’ or humans being made in the spiritual image of God.
Are these insults to muhammed?
islamic “scholars” might let us know.
‘That was a great game of Texas holdem:Say,you know who couldn’t win a game of Texas holdem if his life depended on it?That’s right .the “prophet” muhammed..”
‘..And that’s a pretty easy DIY fix:all you need is a little know-how and some plaster..honestly a little kid could do it:but ..ehm..do you know who couldn’t fix this simple little problem?islam’s “prophet” muhammed’
‘Here buraq,here girl..say,has anyone ACTUALLY seen muhammed’s magical flying winged donkey with a woman’s head?”
muhammed :he “could neither read nor write” {koran 7:157}..and he couldn’t sing,he couldn’t dance:what would a 9 year old child see in him will you tell me?
“What do you get for the holy ‘prophet’s wedding,the man who has everything?
He already has a Flying Donkey.A crate of Whiskey?Another child “wife”?
He has loads of money stolen from the Jews:what to get Aisha?
I know..a DOLL and some Playdoh”
muslim apologists:Oh not this again about Aisha?When will you get it?In those days,the days of mo,when the sun used to set in a muddy pool, a 9 year old girl was actually a fully grown woman with a child bearing capacity.Women were very small in those days and usually only grew to be 3 feet tall.In fact she was not 9:in Classical Arabic the number 9 is 25…you are just being islamophobic and full of hate speech
j4eva says
Wow! That’s what i call cheap airhog crap from yankee doodle doo. Clap clap from supremacists for you. A human can be taught with hopes of learning; but this creature is too high to stand up on his legs or sit on his bum. Whenever you grow out of your zoo, just try listening to the book rather than copy pasting your google mama’s recommendations on a public forum.
mortimer says
Ironic that Shi’ites and Sunnite Muslims are fighting over what is likely crafted mythology.
The historical Aisha may have been totally different from she of the hadiths and Sira … sources discredited by many Muslims today. A wife of caliph (emir) Muawiyya was named Aisha and another one was Khadija giving the suspicion that they were the models for invented stories that came later. Aisha may also be the Jewish name ‘Ishah’ (woman or Eve from Genesis).
Muslims are myth-taken about most of what is assumed to be early Islam. The holy city of the Koran was not even Meccan, but Petra to which the early qiblas all point.
wpm says
A religion born of violence and strife ,pushed and spread by the sword.The people of Islam are only illustrating ,acting in kind like Muhammad their”perfect man” a mad blood lusting illogical supremacist leader.This is kind of like the night of the long knives in Germany in the 1930s when Hitler wanted to do away with the brown shirt leaders.The only trouble is its done every few years with Islam in the middle east for the last 1000 years or so and many non-Muslims have to suffer and die in the process Islam in all branches is rotten to the core.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Sectarian fights between Sunnis and Shi’a are now going on in Yemen (Shia Houthi rebels vs. the Sunni-dominated government), in Iraq (Sunnis who refuse to acquiesce in their loss of power, Shi’a who refuse to relinquish the power they gained when Saddam Hussein was overthrown), in Lebanon (Shi’a Hezbollah vs. Sunnis and Christians), in Syria, where the Alawites (a branch of Shi’ism) have defeated an insurgency by Sunni Arabs.There are Sunnis-Shia conflicts in Saudi Arabia; the Shi’a, who live in the oil-bearing Eastern Province, are routinely mistreated by the dominant Sunnis, who do not hide their contempt for those some Sunnis call “Rafidite dogs,” In Pakistan, Sipah-e-Sahaba is a Sunni group dedicated to attacking Shi’a schools, mosques, and professionals, In Afghanistan, where the Taliban Uber-Sunnis were in the process of massacring the Shi’a Hazara, when the American invasion saved the Hazaras, the Taliban may resume the slaughter once the Americans have left. It’s quite a spectacle, all over the Muslim world. May it go on forever.
Jack says
You are completely right. It will go on forever since it has been going on since the beginning Of Islam. It in human nature and the greed associated with Islam. No matter what happens they will alvays fight each other.
Quazgaa says
Can’t say I’m horrified..business as usual in the islamic zoo.
Wellington says
Again demonstrates what I have written before, to wit, that there are four givens in life: 1) death; 2) taxes; 3) Muslims killing non-Muslims; and 4) Muslims killing other Muslims.
3) and 4) overlap with 1), and 4) is far preferable to 3).
My God, Islam is so screwed up.
keith O says
As long as they fight among themselves like squabbling school yard brats the longer they leave civilized countries alone. I dread to think what the outcome for the world will be if these different factions unite against us infidels.
gravenimage says
Lebanon: Sunni Muslims enraged by Shi’ite videos criticizing Aisha, injure 48 people in riots
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More Muslim-on-Muslim violence from the “religion of peace”…