Sunni Muslims make up the bulk of the population of other countries in the region, with pockets of Shiites scattered among them. As you might expect, problems arise in countries where both sects are vying for power, or one feels oppressed. In Syria, for example, a Sunni majority has been...
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 ...
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are backing the most recently elected leader of Yemen, PresidentAbed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled to Saudi this week as the Houtis closed in on his last bastion of safety in the southern city of Aden. But in spite of the fact that he's a Sunni Muslim, th...
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...