Posted on 08/10/2018 2:06:34 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
One of the instruments that the enemies use is creating discord among us. I insist that we stress and place great emphasis on this matter. Brothers, sisters, Muslims in the world of Islam, if this call reaches your ears, you should know that the day when the words “Sunni” and “Shia” appeared in the American discourse, we became concerned. Every insightful person became concerned. What does America have to do with Sunni and Shia? What does such and such a Jewish Zionist politician in America – who has done nothing except for showing malevolence against Islam and Muslims – have to do with making judgments about Sunni and Shia in the world of Islam? Why should he say something about Sunni and a completely different thing about Shia? Since the Shia and Sunni discourse showed itself in American words, those people who were perceptive and intelligent in the world of Islam became concerned. They understood that a new scheme was being devised, and it was finally put into practice.
There is a history behind waging a war between Shia and Sunni. The English are experts at this. We have many records and abundant information about the history of waging a war, creating discord and instigating grudges between Sunni and Shia. Such discord was created by English agents – whether in our country, in the former Ottoman government or in Arab countries – with the purpose of pitting these countries against one other. However, the plot that the Americans have hatched today is a more dangerous plot. Does supporting a denomination against another denomination in the world of Islam make us happy? If they advocate us, should we be happy then? No, we should become sad and see what week points they have found in us that they want to use and that has made them advocate and support us.
They are opposed to the essence of Islam.
- Ayatollah Khamenei, December 29, 2015
Enemy islamists all.
“There is no difference between Shias and Sunnis.”
Has anyone asked the Saudi clerical establishment to comment on this?
Shias and Sunnis have total contempt for each other and oddly the difference is about the difference between a Methodist and a Baptist. It all goes back to an internal struggle for control of Muslim theology after the death of Mohamed and Ali but that is a different theological subject. It should be noted that Baptist and Methodist do not go to war against each other. Sunnis and Shias did for hundreds of years.
The Muslim religion is a religion of political, sociological, philosophical ideology and total thus total control. Its violence is totally necessary to achieve this.
It is tyranny.
He sees Trump calling for a “NATO II” directed against Iran, composed of Sunni states with behind the scenes support from Israel. so he’s saying, “C’mon boys - we’re all Muslims, so let’s stick together against Israel and America.”
Iran getting skeered.
There is no difference these days. They are all hungry.
Ping! Read what the Shiite Ayatollah says about the so-called divide between Shiites and Sunnis.
The reason this comparison doesn't really work is that Methodists and Baptists don't murder one another over their small differences in doctrine. Come to think of it, Christians haven't murdered one another much over issues of doctrine much since the 30 Thirty Years War (before somebody brings up the conflicts in Northern Ireland or former Yugoslavia as an example, these were really conflicts based on national or ethnic identity where religious beliefs were at best secondary).
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