The bitter, often bloody, divide between the two main branches of Islam has been an undercurrent since the 7th century, but Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi’s vitriol comes at a fragile time, when Sunni countries such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt are wary that the predominantly Shiite nations of Iraq and ...
A lot of people compare the differences between Sunni and Shiite Muslims with differences between Protestants and Catholics, but are these even in the same category? There’s some validity there, though religious comparisons are dicey. The obvious similarity is that both are divisions within great ...
Israel is a political football for power used by both the Sunni and the Shia. The leaders of Sunni nations are required to hate Israel to appease Muslim radicals in their nations and nations with large Shia populations use Israel as a scapegoat nation to gain more power within the Isla...
Washington failed to anticipate Iran's influence in Iraq largely because it has long misunderstood the complexity of the relations between the two countries, in particular the legacy of the war they fought during most of the 1980s. Much has been made of the fact, for example, that throughout...
Times Staff Writer BEIRUT —The ayatollah has a simple piece of advice for any Muslim woman being abused by her husband: Hit him back. “A woman can respond to physical violence inflicted on her by a man with counter- violence as a self-defense measure,” Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein ...
The Sunnis felt that Abu Bakr, a close friend of the prophet's, ought to be the next Muslim leader. But the Shiites claimed that Mohammed had annointed his son-in-law, Ali, as his rightful successor. The Sunnis won out, but a split was born, and that rift was cemented when Ali'...
According to the Sunni’s I believe, the Mahdi’s name will be Mohammed al-Mahdi…but in the same token…ALL Muslim world leaders (with the exception of Barack Hussein Obama) had/has a white horse, just in case allah deemed them the mahdi…Barack Hussein Islama did go to t...
In some parts of the Muslim world, dogs are considered unclean, driven away with shouting, sticks and stones, and sometimes even shot by city workers in failed attempts to control the feral population. Article content Iran’s ruling theocracy views keeping dogs as pets as a...
Saudi Arabia - Islam, Sunnis, Shiites: Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam, and most of its natives are adherents of the majority Sunni branch. In modern times, the Wahhābī interpretation of Sunni Islam has been especially influential, and Muslim s
Hezbollah's foes in Lebanon warned of dire consequences from the move, with Sunni Muslim politician Saad al-Hariri, a former prime minister, saying it risked sanctions being imposed on a country whose economy has been in meltdown for nearly two years. (Writing by Par...