MBS is not taking baby steps - a place that for nearly a century put women under heavy curtains suddenly allow sthem to drive, to vote, to lead men -- that is revolutionary
Sunni and Shia are quite different - and Shia is by far the less deadly:
Nearly every singleterrorist since 2000 has beenSunni
Differences between Sunni and Shia:
- Sunni are kinda sola scriptura -
- what's in the Quran, the Hadiths (of al Bukhara and Al Muslim) and the Sirah (bio of Mo) cannot be challenged, discused or interpreted in any, any way.
- It is to be literally taken.
- Also, every single verse is to be taken as sacrosant
- There can be no modernization within sunnis
- Shia have different "interpreters":
- The largest bunch of Shias are 12er Shias (who acknowledge the first twelve imams) - mainly in Iran and Iraq but also in South Asia. DIFFERENT Ayatollahs interpret for them -- the Shia in Iraq have a different Ayatollah who at times has ruled against Iran and for the USA.
- You have the Zaidi (and their army is called the Houthis) in Yemen -- these have a Zaid imam quite different from the Iranians. Their beliefs are very similar to the Hanafi school of Sunnis
- You have Ismailis who are led by the Aga Khan who has interpreted the Quran that much of the injunctions are not relevant to today's world -- so the burqa is frowned upon among the Ismailis (what is ironic is that they are the descendents of the Hashashin (Assassins) - these are spread around South Asia and the West
- Bohris/Syedna Bohris - these are 7er Shia and are led by thei own Syedna (interpreter) - their women at the most wear colourful burqas (not black and no face coverings) or increasingly not even a head scarf -- these are mostly in south asia
- And you have Ibadis who are neither Sunni nor Shia - they are predominantly in Oman. They don't believe that the Quran is the pre-created word of Allah - most Mohammadens (sunnis especially) believe that the QUran was not created but pre-existed before creation.