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originally posted by: OpinionatedB
a reply to: LightningStrikesHere
Enlighted YOURSELF:
islamic-world.net...
Teachings like this COULD NOT EXIST but for the fact you have NOT 1 hadith in your books which expressly forbide it!
Shia do have many many ahadith which expressly forbid such things... MANY.....
Sunni are left trying to jump hoops with polemics and playing catch-up with the jihadists because your books do not forbid such action as the jihadi's promote.
It's not to put down you or your ahadith either, it was simply my point. Ahadith ties the hands of the shia, while sunni have no such laws tying their hands.
originally posted by: OpinionatedB
a reply to: dawnstar
I'm going to say something here. But its not America's fight. Yes, win or loose America and western countries have to bear what the end result is..
but this time... it HAS to be the fight of the Muslims... It's not America who should be fighting this.
We have different books of ahadith, Shia do not follow or read or learn from Bukhari and Muslim.
You accuse me of being backwards for condemning those who do nothing against the jihadists, who do take their religion from Bukhari and Muslim just like the jihadists.
From their essentially political position, the Kharijites developed extreme doctrines that further set them apart from both mainstream Sunni and Shiʿa Muslims. The Kharijites were particularly noted for adopting a radical approach to Takfir, whereby they declared other Muslims to be unbelievers and therefore deemed them worthy of death.
originally posted by: OpinionatedB
a reply to: LightningStrikesHere
Muslims have the obligation to fight those born of a bastardization of the religion. NOT America... MUSLIMS.
Obama administration? No...
But since its Muslims who are being killed at the current moment, you would think it would be them to take up the axe. Shia are.. even shia children in Iraq are... they are Muslim
and they need help from other Muslims, larger groups, you know... sunnis.
originally posted by: OpinionatedB
a reply to: LightningStrikesHere
Fact? read on the ground accounts of what is right now happening in Iraq!
Your not absolved of the responsibility to actually fight them because you can show one video.
originally posted by: Wrabbit2000
a reply to: LightningStrikesHere
Lightning, I've been conditioned by media, upbringing and societal norms to hate Iran since the Embassy fell in 1979. Of course that's been happening and it was reinforced in countless ways during the endless Iran/Contra hearings. It may not be something as strongly pushed now ..but then I also recall Vice President Cheney's "joke" and parody of a famous song to say "bomb bomb bomb Iran" toward the end of the 2nd term, when asked a question on the matter.
Now, yes, ISIS is a threat to SOME Sunni. In fact, most of them in reality. If you aren't fanatic enough, it doesn't seem to matter to these guys if you are a direct descendant of one of the figures of the Faith itself. You'll get the same bullet as a Shia who answered their questions wrong. The same questioning to an execution we've seen in other places, come to think of it. Shia just means you won't even get "The Questions" if they know it outright. At least this has been their behavior and what they are taping themselves doing for support of those who like this.
BTW... If you want to see a very good example of the United States taking direct sides in the Shia/Sunni war, take a good look at Bahrain and particularly in the 2011 period of time. Those were often U.S. tools being used to suppress the Shia there. It's downright silly when they didn't even take off the Pennsylvania address and company logos from the CS gas canisters and other 'non-lethal' methods used to back the Saudi's and Bahraini Government. (One of ATS's own members was an Visa Student here and returned into that mess in Bahrain. A very nice woman I'd spent hours and hours chatting with on the subject. It IS my opinion..but a well considered one for what that's worth)
We take sides, and we have from the start. We just don't like to admit we take sides because we claim we don't while managing a straight face.