Posted on 01/11/2007 3:38:24 AM PST by Flavius
CHICAGO: The vandalization of two Shiite mosques and five Shiite-owned businesses in Detroit, Michigan, has raised the specter of sectarian clashes in the United States.
While police have not yet determined who threw rocks and bricks through the windows of the mosques and businesses, many in the community believe it was an attack by Sunnis, said Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The vandalism came a week after the execution in Iraq of Saddam Hussein. Many Sunnis were offended by the way in which local Shiites celebrated his death, Walid said.
The owner of one of the restaurants targeted received a threatening phone call Saturday from a man speaking in Arabic and English who noted that he was a Shiite and said, “You’re going to get yours . . . what goes around comes around,” Walid said.
The windows were smashed sometime that night.
“We’ve never had anything like this before,” Walid said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
“Dearborn is one of the largest communities of Muslims in America and we don’t even have fistfights,” he said. “Our kids go to school together, they’re part of the same organizations.”
Sunni and Shiite leaders were planning to meet today to discuss the rising tensions in a community that had previously been free of sectarian violence.
“We need to control this at the early stages because it may get worse,” said Mouhib Ayas, president of the Sunni coalition Islamic Shura Council of Michigan.
“We need to reach out to the Shi’ah and tell them Muslim Sunnis do not approve, that we condone it and we’re going to take the message strongly to our community and are going to ask all the imams this Friday to condone it from the pulpit.” --AFP
Actually, I think not answering the easy question shows that you have no basis for your "truth".
I know muslims who do not fit your definition, and therefore no your "truth" to be false.
So I asked you what your basis was for the statement you made, and you have no answer.
Which is the foundation of bigotry -- unwarranted and inaccurate denegration of classes of people without evidence or reason.
(I grew up in St. Clair Shores.)
Who am I going to believe? You or my lying eyes.
We should redeploy away from Detroit.
The Sunnis consider the Shiites heretics.
Roughly- After Mohammed died he was followed by several Caliphs the fourth one was Ali. When Ali died it split this group called Shiites away from the Sunnis.
The Sunnis continued with the Caliphs saying any descendant of any Caliph is a legitimate Caliph.
The Shiites felt only the descendants of the last Caliph Ali would be a legitimate Caliph. Over this they split away from the Sunnis.
The Sunnis stayed with the Caliphs and the Shiites went their own way with Ayotollas etc.
The Shiites only represent about 15% of the Muslims in the world today. Concentrated mostly in the Iran Iraq area.- Tom
Muslims have been killing and harrassing each other since the 2 major factions began to exist, they will continue to until one or both of them are whiped from the Planet.
Islam is not, and never was a religion of peace, and it CANNOT exist in a peaceful state... a totalitarian state perhaps, but never a peaceful one.
Me.
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