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You really need to learn more about the history of the Christian Church if you think it went 1600 years without a major split. That's their propaganda.
A major cause of the Dark Ages was the Roman Church and the Byzantine Church bankrupting the corpse of the Roman Empire to hire mercenaries to attack eachother.
Not to mention the systematic mass murder of anyone who disagreed with them. For example, the First Inquisition focused not on witches but on the heretical Cathars who were guilty of the unforgivible sin of claiming the Church should be poor like Jesus. For that they were ruthlessly exterminated by both major Christian Churches who were and are filthy rich.
But back to the Sunni and Shia. The Shia have saints, mix the church in worldly affairs and maintain many Zoroastrian symbols and rituals. And hey, I've got nothing against Zoroastrianism. In fact, alot of Christianity is plagerized from it. But it's not Islam. So the Sunni have documentation when they say the Shia have not followed the Koran.
A major cause of the Dark Ages was the Roman Church and the Byzantine Church bankrupting the corpse of the Roman Empire to hire mercenaries to attack eachother.
Not to mention the systematic mass murder of anyone who disagreed with them. For example, the First Inquisition focused not on witches but on the heretical Cathars who were guilty of the unforgivible sin of claiming the Church should be poor like Jesus. For that they were ruthlessly exterminated by both major Christian Churches who were and are filthy rich.
But back to the Sunni and Shia. The Shia have saints, mix the church in worldly affairs and maintain many Zoroastrian symbols and rituals. And hey, I've got nothing against Zoroastrianism. In fact, alot of Christianity is plagerized from it. But it's not Islam. So the Sunni have documentation when they say the Shia have not followed the Koran.
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All around the world, many areas of conflict share one root cause in common. They are artifical states constructed by the LoN after WW1 and the UN after WW2. This is true not just in the Middle East but also in Africa and Asia.
Some ascribe this to the incredible ignorance of local needs and custom by paper pushers thousands of miles away. Myself, I suspect that it's a strategy to keep people in constant civil war which is used to justify never ending UN intervention.
Some ascribe this to the incredible ignorance of local needs and custom by paper pushers thousands of miles away. Myself, I suspect that it's a strategy to keep people in constant civil war which is used to justify never ending UN intervention.
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I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me Liberty or give me death.
PATRICK HENRY - 1775
Excerpts of speech made before the Virginia House of Burgesses