I did not know that there were 73 sects.
Hopefully they will continue to kill each other before they try to wipe us out.
I have thought that the Muslims would try to kill all Jews, Christians, Buddists, Hindus...first...then turn on each other.
hopefully, in any attempts to establish a caliphate, that is exactly what will happen first.
Hizb ut-Tahrir knows this only too well, that's why they maintain their efforts rely on political action rather than 'martyrdom'...they know they need the numbers to quell any resistence from within - they understand better than anyone, just how divided the muslim 'community' is.
Listen to this fellow in his vain attempts to patch over the cracks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6TH9pHpdX4
He says over and over again, there are NOT 73 sects, it's all simply a 'different interpretation' ... read between the lines.
Islam carries within itself the seeds of its own fragmentation. That hadith where mohammad says there will be 73 sects...is the root of the reason why (IMO) I keep hearing (reading from some muslims themselves) that the HADITH are not truly a part of the 'religion'. Have you run across this? Can you understand why?
It's within the hadith that the division into so many sects lies.
I cannot imagine islam as a whole giving up the entire collection of hadith...there were apparently some 62 volumes of the sayings and doings of mohammad.
As the entire 'religion' is nothing but tribal arab lore tacked onto the Original Testament of the hebrews and borrowings (plagiarism) from Christianity, giving up the hadith (the worship of mohammad!) would be like asking Christians to give up the New Testament! Think about that.
And where did the idea of 73 sects originate? Seems mohammad was convinced the Jews had split into 72 sects. And he wanted to go one better...