Posted on 08/10/2016 6:43:52 PM PDT by marshmallow
And those who have come from Eastern Europe had to fight the Muslims as well in the Eastern European history.
--#NeverTrump(We told you so!)
Do they use the same BOOK?
Only to find that Americans are ARMED to the teeth regardless of what church the gun holder attends.
You can answer me privately......
Have you lost your mind?
An overwhelming majority of Muslims are Sunnis, while an estimated 10-13% are Shias. This report estimates that there are between 154 million and 200 million Shia Muslims in the world today.
Between 116 million and 147 million Shias live in Asia, representing about three-quarters of the world’s Shia population (note that Iran is included in the Asia-Pacific region). Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of the world’s Shias (36 million to 44 million) live in the Middle East-North Africa.4 Looked at in a different way, 12-15% of the Muslim population in the Asia-Pacific region is Shia, as is 11-14% of the Muslim population in the Middle East-North Africa region. The figures for Shias are generally given as a range because of the limitations in the secondary-source data (see Methodology for Sunni-Shia Estimates).
Quick Definition: Sunnis and Shias
Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims (also known as Shiites) comprise the two main sects within Islam. Sunni and Shia identities first formed around a dispute over leadership succession soon after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 A.D. Over time, however, the political divide between the two groups broadened to include theological distinctions and differences in religious practices as well.While the two sects are similar in many ways, they differ over conceptions of religious authority and interpretation as well as the role of the Prophet Muhammad’s descendants, for example.For readers seeking more detail on the categories used in this report, Sunnis include followers of the Hanafi, Shafi, Maliki and Hanbali schools of Islamic jurisprudence as well as the Wahhabi or Salafi movement. Shias include Ithna Asharis (Twelvers), Ismailis, Zaydis, Alevis and Alawites.
There also are a few Muslim groups that are difficult to classify as either Sunni or Shia. These include Kharijites in Oman and the Nation of Islam movement in the United States, as well as the Druze, who are located primarily in and around Lebanon. Given the relatively small numbers of people associated with such groups, this report does not provide separate figures for them, but they are included in the overall Muslim population statistics.
Readers should also note that there is no separate estimate for Sufis, whose spiritual and mystical practices have a following among both Sunnis and Shias. There are no reliable figures on the proportion of Muslims worldwide who follow Sufi practices.
Most Shias (between 68% and 80%) live in four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq. Iran has 66 million to 70 million Shias, or 37-40% of the world’s total Shia population. Iraq, India and Pakistan each are home to at least 16 million Shias.
Sizeable numbers of Shias (1 million or more) are found in Turkey, Yemen, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Nigeria and Tanzania. Shias constitute a relatively small percentage of the Muslim population elsewhere in the world. About 300,000 Shias are estimated to be living in North America, including both the U.S. and Canada, constituting about 10% of North America’s Muslim population.
In four countries – Iran, Azerbaijan, Bahrain and Iraq – Shia Muslims make up a majority of the total population.
http://www.pewforum.org/2009/10/07/mapping-the-global-muslim-population/
Your mind will go TOO! when a big chunk of Falling Sky© hits it!
Oh, no!
We must never do that!
We must turn the other cheek to bombs and bullets and knives!
Fr. Josiah had us form a security team consisting of police, former military, and CCW holders after the incident mentioned in the article. They won’t have an easy target if they wanna try something at St. Andrew’s now. We aren’t pacifists...
They blow up a church we blow up 100 mosques
Actually I work the sound room that is offset and I am in a perfect ambush position for anyone who comes through the main entrance or a side entrance and we lock the side entrance doors after the services start, you can leave through those doors but you can’t come back in. I do have my back to the the back wall but the retired cop and one of the deacons sing in the choir so they have eyes on the main entrance.
Excellent! I knew you had it all covered and was just remarking.
Regards-
Already happened........... : )
The FR Religion Forum will seal the deal solid!!!
I've got to know.........
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