Comments on: Sunni-Shia tensions rising in the US? http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/ original layout coming soon Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:17:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: amber http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/#comment-2178 amber Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:51:40 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/#comment-2178 man i wish i was mentioned on the colbert report hehee anyways this is really upsetting to read. oh man. -Amber man i wish i was mentioned on the colbert report hehee

anyways this is really upsetting to read. oh man.

-Amber

]]> By: amal http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/#comment-2202 amal Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:19:57 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/#comment-2202 hasan I have been having the same dilemas why can't we just be muslim ? the division between sunni and shia is a very long story indeed, but all I will say , is ok you believe this and I believe this ok? we talk about it intelectualy, if you disagree then respect , if you accept then respect , but we live in peace after this can we do tht? sadly no everyone has to go round cussing eachother , damming other groups , claiming their some 'saved sect' and so and so on ....their will always be people in this world who just do not have sense. sadly that is life . hasan I have been having the same dilemas why can’t we just be muslim ? the division between sunni and shia is a very long story indeed, but all I will say , is ok you believe this and I believe this ok? we talk about it intelectualy, if you disagree then respect , if you accept then respect , but we live in peace after this can we do tht?
sadly no everyone has to go round cussing eachother , damming other groups , claiming their some ’saved sect’
and so and so on ….their will always be people in this world who just do not have sense. sadly that is life .

]]> By: amal http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/#comment-2203 amal Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:21:58 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/#comment-2203 ooh sorry about writing dilemas, I meant dilema I hate typing mistakes! because you host your own web, the fancy way ! I can not go to my dashboard and make corrections to my comments ! ooh sorry about writing dilemas, I meant dilema I hate typing mistakes! because you host your own web, the fancy way ! I can not go to my dashboard and make corrections to my comments !

]]> By: Dave http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/#comment-2280 Dave Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:12:04 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/#comment-2280 I stopped calling myself Sunni and Sufi (two things I'd considered myself) this past year for several reasons, a big one being that I realized that the Qu'ran a) specifically forbids division into parties b) only gives permission to be be muslimin (or, inshallah, muminin) and c) Says "go to the people of zhikr", which I always took to be shaiks or whatever, but is not defined thusly at all. Immigrants definately can affect the divide, but converts keep it going to. Nobody is more loudly, hatefully anti-Shia than a newly minted, overzealous Sunni. I was lucky to have Sunni and Shia friends from the beginning, and witnesses when I took shahadah, so I never became too deeply sectarian although I have said some messed up things about the Shia, so I am partly to blame as well. I stopped calling myself Sunni and Sufi (two things I’d considered myself) this past year for several reasons, a big one being that I realized that the Qu’ran

a) specifically forbids division into parties

b) only gives permission to be be muslimin (or, inshallah, muminin)

and

c) Says “go to the people of zhikr”, which I always took to be shaiks or whatever, but is not defined thusly at all.

Immigrants definately can affect the divide, but converts keep it going to. Nobody is more loudly, hatefully anti-Shia than a newly minted, overzealous Sunni. I was lucky to have Sunni and Shia friends from the beginning, and witnesses when I took shahadah, so I never became too deeply sectarian although I have said some messed up things about the Shia, so I am partly to blame as well.

]]> By: amal http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/#comment-2288 amal Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:05:27 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/#comment-2288 dave- that is so true , the new over zealous type of people cause more trouble. Often young and impressionable as well. dave- that is so true , the new over zealous type of people cause more trouble. Often young and impressionable as well.

]]> By: Ashi http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/#comment-2780 Ashi Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:17:38 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/09/28/sunni-shia-tensions-rising-in-the-us/#comment-2780 I used to be a firmly entrenched Sunni, but I realize now (after studying Islam some more) that any sort of sectarianism is wrong. I think it's silly, who did or did not become Caliph has no effect on us today. All this misery and hatred for the sake of a 1400 year old political dispute... I used to be a firmly entrenched Sunni, but I realize now (after studying Islam some more) that any sort of sectarianism is wrong.

I think it’s silly, who did or did not become Caliph has no effect on us today.

All this misery and hatred for the sake of a 1400 year old political dispute…

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