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1) Have you ever thought why there's conflict between Shia and Sunni?2) Have you ever thought how can "brothers" hate each other so much?3) Have you ever thought about why they kill each other?4) While both sects are massacring each other, have you ever wondered how they can claim that Islam is the Religion of Peace???The origins of the Sunni-Shia conflict was always violent, and that appears to be giving way to another period of spreading conflict in the Middle East..That struggle is most violent and da... read more »
It's not known precisely how many of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims are Shia. The Shia are a minority, comprising between 10 percent and 15 percent of the Muslim population — certainly fewer than 200 million, all told.The Shia are concentrated in Iran, southern Iraq and southern Lebanon. But there are significant Shiite communities in Saudi Arabia and Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India as well.Although the origins of the Sunni-Shia split were violent, over the centuries Shia and Sunnis lived peacefu... read more »
We Israelis tend to see the Arab world as a unit; they all think the same, especially about us. Which is true to some extent; hatred, or at least denigration, of Israel is far more the rule than the exception in Arab media and Arabic language websites. But the rulers in many Arab states have [...] read more »