Do you know if Shiites and Sunni worship together outside the Islamic world or are their mosques "segregated"? From what I've read, they don't like each other too well and in fact despise each other due to a historic chasm in prophets and leadership way in the past. I would also like to know if there is animosity due to racial heritage. I know Iran is primarily Indo-European ancestry while most of the others states are Semitic or Arab in heritage. Does anyone know what sect is in the majority in the Phillipines and Indonesia
But it does seem mosques even in the US are very segregated. I'll do some googling.
Philippines and Indonesia are Sunni.
There really are few large Shiite communities and only a few countries with Shiite majorities.
Around the world Shiites very rarely share mosques with Sunnis. I suppose they could if both are present only in small numbers.
The chasm is not just in prophets and leadership but in the nature of religious law, which is all-important for Muslims.
Shiites are also not monolithic, there being many flavors of Shiite belief, many grossly incompatible with each other.
Sunni beliefs are basically compatible, its pretty much a range of severity and permitted variety.
Sunnis are the majority pretty much everywhere except Iraq and Iran. Except for Iran, the major non-Arab Muslim populations -- such as Pakistan, India, and Indonesia are mostly Sunni.
The Moslems in the Phillipines or Tailand wouldn't be either Arab or Persian. Same with American Muslim, who some ME Moslems wouldn't consider to be Moslem at all.